Did you know the traffic police fines and tows away about 3,000 vehicles on an average every day? That is not all. This, according to them, forms just one per cent of the total traffic offences that take place in the city every day.
Did you know the traffic police fines and tows away about 3,000 vehicles on an average every day? That is not all. This, according to them, forms just one per cent of the total traffic offences that take place in the city every day.
Moreover, it seems the traffic police have become stricter with the enforcement of rules, over the years. Cases of parking violations, which include parking in the wrong side, in no parking zones and tagging them, etc., also saw a huge leap.
The additional commissioner of police (traffic) Praveen Sood said that maximum offences took place in commercial areas like MG Road, Brigade Road, Shivajinagar, Jayanagar, Chickpet and Upparpet.
Offending vehicles were booked and towed away only when they obstructed traffic. While cars were mostly spared as it was difficult to tow and park them, two-wheelers were not.
There are around 40 lakh vehicles plying on city roads. Sood claimed that traffic enforcement was not even one per cent of the violations that happen every day. This was because of the limited number of police officials and the lack of space to house all the towed vehicles.
This is not all; the policemen also brave abuses hurled at them for towing people’s vehicles. The cops said that ensuring proper parking space was the task of the vehicle-owner and the civic agencies.
There are cases where vehicles have been parked in the middle of the road, obstructing traffic movement. There are also cases where people park their vehicles right outside somebody’s house and go shopping or for a movie to avoid paying parking fees. Such cases mostly happen near shopping malls.
The department follows three types of parking enforcements: by towing the vehicles, putting tags on them and by locking them. While the penalty for a tagged vehicle is Rs100, in case of towed vehicles one has to shell out a penalty of Rs300.
“The number of cases this year has increased, not only because the enforcement has been strengthened, but also because of the system of locking the vehicles, for which we imported 500 Chinese tyre-locking devices,” Sood added.
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