Full marks to Delhi Traffic Police

Thursday, Apr 22, 2010

    
Full marks to Delhi Traffic Police for minimising traffic snarl-ups caused due to the large turnout of BJP activists for the rally on Wednesday. Fine coordination between the organisers and traffic police helped clearing the roads in less than one hour after the rally was over.

The BJP rally though slowed down the traffic in some Central Delhi areas, but the party activists were not allowed to go berserk on the streets. Traffic police personnel, including the senior officials, in coordination with the organizers kept a constant vigil over the situation to ensure smooth flow of traffic. However, traffic congestion was reported from Rajghat, Connaught Place and Jantar Mantar, but for a short period of time.

Special Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Ajay Chadha said there was an excellent coordination between the police and the organisers. "The advisory was issued in advance that helped managing the traffic movement as lesser number of motorists came to the roads", he said adding that the acted in a controlled manner. Chadha said that the activists were allowed to park their buses and other vehicles at designated parking lots in order to avert any probable traffic obstruction on the roads. He, however, admitted that traffic snarls were from Ring Road as the number of vehicles brought by them was very large.

"Vehicular movement was affected at Rajghat, Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, Barakhamba Road, Kasturba Gandhi Marg and Janpath," the official added. Mandi House and surrounding areas also witnessed traffic jam, though the flow became normal soon. The movement to New Delhi Railway Station from Ramlila Maidan was also affected. According to traffic department, diversions imposed on some of the routes in the city resulted in heavy volume of traffic on Ring Road and Mathura Road. Traffic congestion was reported from Parliament Street, Asoka Road, Barakhamba Road, Tolstoy Marg and Sikandara Road but the traf fic flow soon returned to normalcy. However, the worst hit from jam was the Ring Road and Mathura Road where traffic congestion was reported during the evening peak hours due to the dispersal of the buses brought by the activists. Around 300 traffic policemen were deployed on the rally route from Ramlila Maidan to Jantar Mantar to ensure that traffic is properly regulated. Goods vehicles entering the city were diverted at Wazirabad TPoint, Chandagi R am Akhara, ISBT L oop of Shahdara, Laxmi Nagar, ISBT Yamuna River Bridge, Nizamuddin Bridge and Neela Gumbad in Nizamuddin, he said. Buses were also diverted at various places. No buses including chartered buses were allowed on Ranjit Singh Marg towards Gurunanak Chowk from Barakhamba side. To ensure security, a large number of personnel from Delhi Police as well as paramilitary were deployed.

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