Visitors police, together with the Institute of Highway Visitors Schooling (IRTE), have undertaken a scientific audit of Gurugram’s site visitors patterns at 22 busy intersections, officers mentioned on Wednesday. The audit, a part of an intensive research protecting 218 essential junctions, started in January and goals to handle congestion, violations, and poor highway engineering.
Dr Rohit Baluja, president, IRTE, mentioned work on site visitors administration enhancements has already began at Rajiv Chowk and Shankar Chowk. “Our groups, together with the Visitors Engineering Centre (TEC), are creating a sustainable site visitors administration system whereas monitoring motion, violations, and behavioural problems with weak highway customers,” Baluja mentioned.
Officers mentioned places resembling Kherki Toll Plaza, DLF Part II, South Metropolis II, Good Earth Mall, Mayfield Backyard, Shankar Chowk and Signature Tower are being monitored by way of digicam feeds from 218 junctions through the Gurugram Metropolitan Improvement Authority’s (GMDA) Built-in Command and Management Centre (ICCC).
Shyamal Mishra, CEO, Gurugram Metro Improvement Authority ( GMDA), assured his assist for bettering site visitors in Gurugram. “The IRTE and Visitors police must also discover options for alleviating site visitors on inside Gurugram roads, particularly new sectors close to Dwarka Expressway and people at Dadi Sati Chowk,” he mentioned.
A senior IRTE official mentioned the “bottom-up” audit recognized volumetric encroachments, improper signage, and lane reductions as key points. “An audit report was submitted to civic authorities with suggestions, together with highway widening,” the official mentioned.
As a part of the Simple Roads venture, 15 km of accident-prone stretches are additionally underneath assessment for enchancment. Visitors businesses plan to rectify blackspots, improve school-zone security, and conduct highway security feasibility research.
