Department prepares a list of places where congestion takes place during the festival days
Traffic branch of the city police plans to gift Mumbaikars a jam-free Diwali festival. The branch would be preparing a list of market places where congestion takes place during the festival of lights for shopping and accordingly deploy more men to ensure that there are no jams at these places.
"Market areas of the city get too congested during Diwali and traffic jams only add to the problems. We have decided to make market areas traffic-free this Diwali," joint commissioner of police, traffic, Dr BK Upadhyay told dna.
Upadhyay added that for this purpose the traffic branch would be marking the market places across the city where Diwali shopping takes place and accordingly enforce additional deployment of traffic policemen there. "Some of the places where every year jams are reported during Diwali are Crawford Market, Colaba, Gateway of India, Kalbadevi, Tardeo and Goregaon. We will increase our presence in the market areas. We would be imposing restrictions on certain places and would also impose fine if people park their vehicles on roads," he said.
The traffic department would also be holding a meeting post the Assembly elections on traffic restrictions during Diwali. The department also plans to conduct anti-drunken driving campaign during Diwali in a big way, Upadhyay added.
"The best way to enjoy a festival is to celebrate it without any tragedy. We would call nakabandis for drunken driving at strategic locations in the city during Diwali," said a traffic police officer.
"During the festive season people do tend to disobey traffic rules and park their vehicles at busy places leading to jams. This time we have decided that we would deal with this menace strictly. We have also asked the force not to indulge in any argument over traffic violations as this could lead to an issue during the festival. If someone tries to avoid paying fine, we would take his vehicle details and collect fine from him/her later. We had used this method during Govinda festival," said another traffic police officer.
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