:: www.bangaloretrafficpolice.gov.in- About Bangalore City Traffic Police ::

Bangalore City Traffic Branch has got 6 Sub-Divisions, 29 Traffic Zones, Each traffic sub-division is headed by an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Traffic Zone by a Inspector of Police.

Few cities in the world have the power to attract and motivate a casual visitor to move there permanently. Bangalore is one of those rare cities that makes people who are new to the city to call themselves proud Bangaloreans. Bangalore, with a wonderful climate is already a pensioner's Paradise. With well developed residential areas, broad roads with well grown trees on both sides, good shopping malls, no wonder people prefer to move here permanently.

Bangalore was already called the Electronic City of India but the establishment of the Silicon Park on the out skirts has converted it into the Silicon City of the world. The city is the playground of many Indian as well as multinational Information Technological (I.T) and Bio Technological (B.T) companies. Bangalore has made a niche for itself in the international arena in terms of this growth and with major players in the IT industry gaining foothold here, Bangalore has come to be best known within India for being the country's un-official high-tech capital.

The City of Bangalore has been growing at a rapid pace on all fronts. It was Kempegowda who was responsible for building the modern city of Bangalore (c1537), erecting a mud fort here to the north of the now existing fort which covered the area of Avenue Road and its surroundings. New extensions were added to the old town by creating Chamarajapet and Sheshadripuram in 1892. Two new bigger extensions, Basavanagudi and Malleshwaram, Kalasipalyam (near the old fort) and Gandhinagar were laid out between 1921-1931. During the post-independence period Kumara Park came into existence in 1947 and Jayanagar was inaugurated in 1948.

After Independence, Bangalore City was made the capital of Mysore State (renamed as Karnataka state in 1973). Since Independence, Bangalore City has witnessed a phenomenal growth in population and traffic.

The population in the Bangalore Urban Region and Municipalities has increased from 29 lakhs in 1981 to 42 lakhs in 1991 and 90 plus lakhs in 2004, an increase of 45% and 43% respectively during the mentioned period. The extent of developed area has also increased considerably, in 1971 the area was 174.7 sq.kms and today it is about 437 sq.kms.

The city evolved as the garden city of the country due to its salubrious climate. Today it has grown into radial city with 9 road corridors forming the principal radial arms, with concentric orbital corridors. The total road length of the city is about 4200 kms out of which arterial roads account for 500 kms. Most of the corridors carry traffic volumes much above their capacity, though number of grade separators have been constructed and are being constructed, most of them are located in the developed part of the city and causing a trigger of congestion at adjacent junctions.

The public transport system (bus) is overstressed carrying about 50 lakh commuters in a daily basis. Congested streets and longer route lengths due to urban sprawl have only served to reduce bus frequencies further.

Traffic Management measures such as one way systems, parking restrictions, junctions improvements etc., are being implemented to ease the congested street network. The ever increasing traffic is fast deteriorating the limited improvement in level of service these traffic management measures can offer.

Industrial activity in and around Bangalore City, particularly Information Technology and Bio Technology related activities continues to grow and attract a large number of people to the city. The rapid urban population growth with relatively small investments in transport (roads and buses) has resulted in an increasing gap between the transport demand and supply.

The number of motor vehicles registered in Bangalore increased from 2,36,000 in 1983 to 6,84,497 by 1992 and 21 lakhs by December 2004, a phenomenal rate of increase 289% and 278% respectively during the mentioned period . Out of the total 21 lakhs registered vehicles in Bangalore, 15.42 lakh vehicles account for 2 wheelers and 3.3 lakhs vehicles account for cars, which means that 88.17% of total vehicles are personal vehicles. This does not include the floating vehicle population.

The result is a low average speed on the network. Traffic management measures such as one way systems are very much evident , but they too are facing capacity problems. The sprawl of the city further loads the radial routes, as there have been a spate of new layouts developed by Bangalore Development Authority.

BMTC takes on the role of the sole provider for public transport. In Bangalore Omni Bus operations to local factories is quite significant. Factory worker trips to the larger factories are completely taken care off by these services. BMTC carries 28 lakh passenger trips a day at present and has a fleet strength of 3267 buses with 3125 schedules and 45,000 trips.

In order to reduce traffic congestion and ensure smooth Transportation Management major projects such as construction of Fly-overs, Widening of existing road, construction of Sub-ways / Grade Separators and Pedestrian Sub-ways needs to be undertaken. Along with this there is also a need to improve Public Transportation by introducing Metro Railway and Mass Rapid Transits facility. Certain short term initiatives such as One-way system, Junction improvement and Restriction on certain type of vehicles is also necessary to make Bangalore City free from traffic jams and to ensure safe environment.

Two important National Highways passes through Bangalore City. They are NH-4, from Tumkur to Kolar and NH-7 from Anathapur to Hosur. Apart from this Mysore Road which forms the Bangalore-Mysore Highway Corridor is also part of city roads. Bangalore City has also major arterial roads such as, Kanakapura Road, Bannerghatta Road, Magadi Road and Sarjapura Road which connects Bangalore City from the other rural areas.

Inside the city center important roads such as, Sankey Road, M.G.Road, Cubbon Road, J.C.Road, Kempegowda Road, Sheshadri Road, Richmond Road, Residency Road etc., forms the core traffic areas. Majority of the roads in Bangalore City are operating at above capacity level. The capacity volume ration in most of the roads is above One.

Year	1980	1985	1990	1995	2000	2002	2003	2004	2005(30.05.05)
Total Vehicles	175325	306589	601059	870659	1438057	1738929	1912341	2157480	2272239

Year	Fatal	Killed	Non-Fatal	Injured	Total
2001	668	703	8358	6929	9026
2002	783	820	9073	7577	9856
2003	843	883	9662	7980	10505
2004	875	903	8226	6921	9101
2005	796	836	6782	5899	7578
2006	880	915	6681	6048	7561
2007(upto31.12.07)	957	981	7469	6591	8426

VI. STATEMENT SHOWING THE NO.OF ROAD ACCIDENT CASES REPORTED/ NO OF PERSONS KILLED , INJURED & VEHICLE WISE IN BANGALORE CITY

Sl.No.	Type of Vehicle	Fatal Cases		Non- Fatal		Damage	Total Cases
Sl.No.	Type of Vehicle	Cases	Killed	Cases	Injured	Damage	Total Cases
1	BMTC Bus	60	60	117	155	46	223
2	KSRTC	5	5	23	22	12	40
3	Factory Bus	2	2	7	9	0	9
4	Private Bus	15	15	43	67	33	91
5	Lorry	100	105	231	341	294	625
6	Car	60	62	709	877	345	1114
18	Taxi	5	5	51	66	38	94
12	Jeep	7	9	33	43	12	52
7	Auto Rickshaw	17	17	137	288	39	293
8	Motor Cycle	70	72	640	730	32	742
9	Scooter	9	9	116	130	9	134
10	Moped	2	2	29	32	2	33
11	Tempo	32	33	195	234	118	345
13	Van	7	7	72	104	32	111
14	Maxi Cab	11	11	46	81	29	86
15	Military Vehicle	1	1	1	2	1	3
16	Un-Known Vehicle	46	48	53	70	3	102
17	Tractor	10	10	27	31	7	44
19	Tanker	5	5	10	17	7	22
20	Cycle	-	-	-	-	-	-
21	Jataka	-	-	-	-	-	-
22	Bullock Cart	-	-	-	-	-	-
23	Others	-	-	7	8	0	7
	TOTAL	462	476	2626	3283	1043	4131

Year	M.V.Act Cases	K.P.Act Cases	Towing Cases	Total Cases
2001	10,80,827	7,693	1,69,439	12,57,959
2002	11,68,475	15629	136609	1320713
2003	1132888	11736	123648	1268272
2004	1053154	11133	33539	1097826
2005	1575240	9962	61465	1646687
2006	1518809	8611	85973	1613393
2007(31.12.07)	1340056	5298	51736	1397090

Year	M.V.Act Fine	K.P.Act Fine	Towing Charges	Total Fine Collected
2001	116008700	215360	18407950	134632010
2002	119054293	523709	14756950	134334952
2003	125417865	435299	13357550	139210714
2004	120154600	406325	4352400	124913325
2005	182631240	360250	12546900	195538390
2006	188434665	303550	17751200	206489415
2007(31.12.07)	182018650	258570	10776000	193053220

In order to de-congest traffic in Bangalore City the Government has constructed the following Fly-overs and construction work still going on some junctions. The following table gives the picture of construction, under construction and proposed Fly-over / Grade Separator.

Bangalore City had 110 Automated Signal Lights and 06 Manual Signal Lights. Recently 52 new Solar Powered Automated Signal Lights are being installed. Out of these 52 Solar Powered Signal Lights, 30 are Vehicle Actuated.

A new system of enforcement called Automated Enforcement has been introduced in Bangalore City. This involves the constabulary noting down the numbers of the offending vehicles and passing the information to the Automation Enforcement Center equipped with computers, software and vehicle database provided by the M.V Department. Based on this, computerized challans are generated U/s 133 of M.V. Act, which are sent by post to the offender. The repeated offenders will be noted by the system and their licences will be noted by the system and their licences will be proposed for suspension / cancellation. This system has already shown its effect in the sense that people are feeling the deterrence of traffic law.

Simputers are being added through the mechanism of Automated Enforcement. 30 Simputers were donated by "Confederation of Indian Industry" ( CII ) and about 150 traffic police men were trained in the use of simputers.

One of the major cause of road accident is Drunken Driving. In order to book Drunken Driving, State of Art Alcometers was purchased first time in the year 2001 and subsequently in the year 2004. Campaigns about Drunken Driving were frequently organized in co-ordination with BATF, SASP, GRSP and NIMHANS. The following table illustrates number of cases booked against Drunken Drivers.

Over Speeding is one of the main causative factor for road accident. In order to check over speeding Laser Based Speed Vision were purchased during the year 2004. These equipments are very much helpful in booking violators of Speed limit. Total No. of cases booked by using speed vision is 4574 in the year 2004, and 5,607 in the year 2005 (30-09-05).

Bangalore City Traffic Police took the help of Traffic Experts and Traffic Engineers in conducting survey and studies in different locality to prepare plan for better traffic management. The following projects were initiated;

These plans were prepared by Traffic Experts and the recommendations were implementing in phased manner.

Increases in volume of traffic has led to traffic jams and congestion on most of the roads in Bangalore City. Since widening of roads is not possible in near future, one solution for de congestion is convert high density roads into one-way. Since last 30 years about 260 roads have been converted into one-ways. Some of the important roads which are converted into one-ways are;

1. In order to reduce traffic congestion and to ensure road safety,87 roads have been converted into one-ways during the last 24 months. This has resulted in traffic de-congestion and reduction of journey time. Accident rate has come down by about 20% during the year 2004 in central area after implementation of one-way system.

2. A new system of enforcement called Automated Enforcement has been introduced in of Bangalore City. This involves the constabulary noting down the numbers of the offending vehicles and passing the information to the Automation Enforcement Center equipped with computers, software and vehicle database provided by the M.V Department. Based on this, computerized challans are generated U/s 133 of M.V. Act, which are sent by post to the offender. The repeated offenders will be noted by the system and their licences will be noted by the system and their licences will be proposed for suspension / cancellation. This system has already shown its effect in the sense that people are feeling the deterrence of traffic law.

3. In order to inculcate lane discipline and Pedestrian discipline �Zero Tolerance� policing was launched on M.G. Road on 16-09-2003. This programme was well received by the public and it had a good impact on traffic discipline. In this programme each and every minor violations were booked and pedestrians were also booked for jay walking. So-far more than 2000 cases in IMV Act and 400 cases of jay walking were booked. Further plans to create more �Zero Tolerance Zones� are under way particularly on J.C road and C.M.H road.

4. A vigorous campaign against drunken driving was launched during March-2004 by purchasing 33 state of art breath analysers. So-far over 18000 cases are booked against drunken drivers during last 9 months.

5. Bangalore City Police have acquired laser based speed vision cameras to detect over speeding vehicles. Bangalore Traffic Police is the first police organization to acquire this latest system in India.

6. In order to ensure quality investigation of accident cases, 29 Mobile Traffic Police Stations were created during March-2004. The creation of these Police Stations has led to speedy registration and improved investigations of road accidents.

7. A new concept known as Local Area Management Plan was initiated to address traffic related problems of residential areas in Bangalore City. In this connection a comprehensive study was conducted for Indira Nagar and adjoining areas and all the problems were addressed effectively. Recently studies are conducted for Richmond Town, Longford Town and Richards town

8. In order to ensure greater safety at junctions, 52 new signal lights are being installed. Out of these 52 signal lights, 36 signal lights will be the most modern vehicles actuated signal lights. First time in India vehicle actuated signal lights are installed in Bangalore City.

9. Bangalore City Traffic Police have computerized the accident database with about 64 parameters for each reported accident since 1990. Thus, data on more than 75,000 accidents is available for analysis on the Micro Computer Accident Analysis Package (MAAP) of TRL, U.K. With the help of this, a number of accident black spots have been identified and reported to the civic authorities for implementing counter measures. At many such locations, perceptible decrease in accident rates has been noticed.

10. A new and modern traffic training park was developed through private partnership. This traffic park has a facility to train citizens and students in road safety and traffic rules.

11. In order to achieve transparency in Traffic Management Public Grievances Cell was started during May-2004. In this cell Senior Traffic Officers hear the grievances of the public and on the spot remedy is given.

12. In order to boost the morale of the traffic policemen, a comprehensive health check-up was done during April-June 2004 for all traffic policemen.

13. In order to educate software employees and security guards, coaching classes were conducted in different organization by the Traffic Training Institute. About 3500 software employees and security guards are already been given exposure regarding traffic discipline and road safety.

14. A vigorous campaign against use of high beam lights was launched during the year 2004. So-far over 40,000 cases were booked against vehicles using high beam and dazzling lights.

15. A campaign to ensure 6 school children per autorickshaw was launched recently. As a part of this campaign, two educative programmes for auto drivers were held and a day long auto drivers training session was held at Traffic Training Institute. So-far, 1655 auto drivers are booked for violating this norm, during the year 2004.

16. Traffic safety awareness camps are being held and number activities involving the education of children on road safety are being taken up. More than 40,000 children are being trained under the Students Association for Road Safety (SARS) scheme in the city. A number of traffic films and fillers have been produced by the city traffic police and are being shown in schools etc. apart from being telecast. A large number of hoardings have been installed by the City Police to educate the public. A number of pamphlets have been distributed on traffic safety awareness.

17. During October 2004 a Quick Reaction Traffic �Cobras� were introduced to ensure quick response to traffic problems. At present 39 cobras are performing traffic duties in Bangalore City

18. With the help of Radio city and students of Mount Carmel College two separate campaigns namely �Wear Helmet� and �Maintain lane discipline� were launched during the year 2004.

19. Simputers for Enforcement of Traffic rules was introduced in September 2004. All the traffic Inspectors are provided with simputers for booking cases against traffic violators.

20. Traffic wardens organization was Revitalized by introducing simplified rules and regulation. The strength of Traffic wardens organization in expected to reach 3000 during the year-2005

21. In order to ensure grater safety for pedestrians, raised pedestrian crossings were introduced. Similarly pedestrian controlled signal lights were also launched on priority basis.

In keeping with the vision of the Bangalore Forward Agenda released on 24 Jan 2000, over the last 3 years the Police and the BATF have been partnering over a wide range of initiatives. This partnership has been extremely beneficial through mutual sharing and cooperation, for both the BATF and the Police, and more importantly for the citizens of Bangalore, and the city as a whole.

These initiatives have broadly aimed at ensuring a higher quality and efficiency of service delivery to the citizens, through an outward looking police force. The partnership has focused on the following areas:

The methodology followed by this partnership and has been collaborative and participative, through international collaboration, through corporate BATF initiatives, through the Traffic Review Action Committee (TRAC) which is an inter stakeholder forum for review of traffic issues and projects. In addition the route of consultancies for project management and intellectual input has also been adopted.

The various initiatives and projects taken up since the conception of the Bangalore Forward Agenda are as follows

The Bangalore CATMap was a project aimed at addressing decongestion of traffic in Central Bangalore through traffic management techniques by routing traffic through one ways, as well as planning traffic infrastructure in the form of mini flyovers.

The partnership was an initiative of the Bangalore Police and the Bangalore Agenda Task Force, in cooperation with the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike and BMTC.

The Police approached the ABTF with the project and the BATF has supported the realization of the project through the following efforts:

� Scientific analysis of the proposal using computer simulations to prove its necessity and benefits.

� Platform for presenting the scheme and having it accepted at governmental level

� Planning and creating the publicity campaign for the implementation of phase 1 of the scheme for maximum acceptance.

� Monitoring of Phase 1 with a feedback mechanism in terms of after studies like speed and delay studies along with the opinion polls etc.

The BATF, which is the nodal agency for the World Bank's Global Road Safety Partnership in Bangalore (GRSP), is coordinating with several different agencies and the Bangalore Police on reducing drunken driving through awareness, deployment of alcohol meters and workshops. The BATF corporate programme has donated 25 alcometers. The programme was launched in February 2002 with a MoU being signed between the partners. Hon'ble Home Minister Shri Mallikarjun Kharge formally launched the communication campaign on December 5, 2002.

The BATF in partnership with the BMP, and with the active support and co-operation with Bangalore Police, have taken up improvement of about 10 junctions in the city, redesigning them scientifically for increased commuter and pedestrian safety. The private companies have funded all the junctions taken up for improvement.

In addition, the BATF has been instrumental in finding corporate sponsors for these projects as well as design of the roads, junctions, and signage.

The Bangalore Police have computerized Tilaknagar Police Station with the aim of making it a model police station with a citizen friendly interface. The benefits of this programme would lead to automatic filing of FIR's, maintaining databases of criminals and crimes and enable quicker crime detection, and thus a safer city.

The BATF has been working through its corporate initiative programme in obtaining the funding for the deployment of the software. In addition BATF is providing input for networking and training solutions, as well as conceptualizing a plan to ensure scalability of the effort across Bangalore. Several important areas where the BATF is involved are:

The revival of a team approach for focused short term action on traffic issues was initiated by the BATF under the umbrella of the Traffic Review Action Committee (TRAC), which coordinates between all concerned stakeholders on traffic projects. This is because traffic comes under the purview of the Police, the BMP and BMTC. This has been a successful forum for bringing focus to traffic problems and ensuring action is taken. Under TRAC, several successful initiatives have been taken. The TRAC meets weekly.

� Suraksha Sanchara - The road safety programme for Bangalore has been launched by the BATF, Police and the GRSP for Safe Roads, Safe People and Safe Systems. Several Sub projects have been initiated.

� Bus Shelters - New bus shelters were designed for commuter convenience and aesthetics, they have been put up and the locations have been decided based on input from the Police, BMTC and BMP. About 350 shelters have been installed as of now.

� Road Signage Manual - The BATF has produced the Road Signage Manual for Bangalore, with inputs from all agencies dealing with traffic and 3 road stretches were tendered out as a pilot scheme and have been completed. The progress for the implementation was reviewed under TRAC. The tender for further road stretches have been floated by BMP.

� Pay 'n Park - The Pay 'n Park Scheme was conceptualized by the BATF, and this has been implemented, with TRAC being the forum for co-ordination between the police and the BMP. A total of 60 locations have already been taken up for the scheme and it is monitored under TRAC through discussions and joint inspections. A further 38 locations will be tendered shortly.

� Road Painting and Marking - This has been done through the TRAC forum by the Police and BMP.

� Road Hierarchies - The classification of various roads into different hierarchical categories is being carried out under TRAC.

� Trees and Poles - Road widening has left trees and poles in the carriageway in many areas and the removal and shifting of these is being carried out under the TRAC umbrella. The discussion includes the widening of the footpath wherever possible.

The rejuvenation of SKR Market is an initiative of the BMP, involving multiple stakeholders. The police have been closely involved with the project as a part of market security and traffic control measures. BATF has been instrumental in drawing plans for smooth vehicular flow, pedestrian movement, efficient movement of trucks and parking arrangements.

Enforcement Automation Center (EAC) on PUB Building, M.G.Road with data collection from RTO's to enable computerized challans for traffic violations. BATF involvement has been on providing inputs on the centers being more citizens friendly.

This project was initiated catering to the needs of the local residents with only making minimal changes to the existing infrastructure. BATF with active support from both the BMP and Police took on the mantle of drawing plans for Converting the road into an exclusive zone to be used for walking during certain hours of the day.

The partnership has been immensely beneficial for the police, as well as for the city as a whole, with the citizen seeing visible benefits through the deployment of Hoysalas, the Helplines, the One-way system and other initiatives. This is an ongoing partnership, with several projects still ongoing and some still in the pipeline.

Both the BATF and the Police are committed to stepping up the pace of developments and reforms. Some of the commitments are listed below.

Launching of further phases to complete the plan as per the study. Also the junction improvements at all the 106 intersections need to be undertaken with active participation of the traffic police. Further phases for introduction of traffic management.

The further deployment of road signage in the form of directional and informational as well as mandatory and cautionary signs will be soon carried out. The Police have an important role to play in deciding the locations of these signs and supporting the effort of putting up the signs for enhanced road user ease and safety.

BATF to co-ordinate with GRSP to help the Police set up the institute using best practices as well as the formation of a Road Safety Council in co-ordination with KRDCL.

Common connectivity network among all civic agencies with BATF co-ordination and Police taking the lead including the Helplines and call center management.

Voice Logging system for better interaction between the police and the public, as well as to be able to trace prank calls.

Installation of 25 new signals and upgrading a further 25. This also includes the optimization of signals through effective co-ordination and later on upgradation to Area Traffic Control Systems.

vii. TRAC

Regularisation of TRAC with the working group meeting fortnightly and the commissioner of Police and BMP attending once a month. Also Setting up an exclusive interactive web site for TRAC has been worked out.

Lunching of Enforcement Centers in all the Traffic Police Stations for effective traffic regulation.

ix. Sustainability initiative

The commitment made at the BATF summit was to ensure financial sustainability for the police through transfer of funds. This has been enabled and the task now is to streamline and systemise the process for transfer of the funds from the Government through a Government Order or by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding.

Training of Police Personnel at all levels with BATF coordination for Private Public Partnership as well as team building exercises for better cooperation among stake holders. Specilised packages for managerial and technical staff.

Launching of pilot at Thilaknagar, incorporating learning and scaling to all 87 police stations across Bangalore.

The enforcement campaign needs to be initiated by setting up teams to be triggered across the city.

The BATF under one of its initiatives is standardizing street furniture in the form of railings, median railings, benches and litterbins across Bangalore. The police will play an important role in supporting the deployment of street furniture.

xiv. Black Spot Monitoring

The aim of this project is to use the Micro Computer Accident Analysis package (MAAP) to monitor the top 50 accident prone black spots across Bangalore and use this as a tool for improving these areas to make them safer for both road users and pedestrians.

xv. Road Safety initiatives

A number of projects have been initiated in the recent past on the lines of bringing focus on road safety likes seat belt wearing, helmet wearing, safe zones among others.

BATF have in the recent past worked out a detailed plan for introducing dedicated bus ways across the city. BATF have detailed out the plan for the north south corridor starting from Hebbal in the north running into Banashanakri in the south. A number of joint site inspections including the police have been undertaken. This project would have to be implemented with active participation and cooperation from the police department.

BATF have initiated a neighbourhood watch programme called "Suchi Mitra" and on the same lines a programme could be drawn up in terms of traffic watch in the neighbourhood. The citizens' could actively participated along with the system in trying to find solutions to the problems prevailing.

xviii. Neighbourhood Traffic Management Plans

As a pilot the Indiranagar Area has been taken up for a drawing plan for a local area by taking into consideration the traffic management and traffic calming aspects based on the need basis. The project was implemented in October - September 2003 and has obtained good response from the residents of the area.

CII has initiated the "Love My Bangalore" programme and also had sought the help from BATF to draw a detailed plan for their Lane Discipline Project. The project report has been hence completed and presented to the concerned and approvals obtained and programme launched on July 26, 2004.

There is an urgent need to create additional road infrastructure for smooth traffic management in Bangalore City. Bangalore City Traffic Police after a careful study and analysis have proposed various initiatives, and the same has been forwarded to various civic agencies and government. The following paragraphs depicts works needs to be undertaken on priority basis.

02 Sarjapur Road from Hosur Road junction to Agara junction. This road can be made double road by merging service roads into the main road

12 Old Madras road from NGEF junction to Anjenya Temple junction (National Highway Authority are widening this road)

The following roads are proposed to Construction of Pedestrian Subway / Foot over bridge

Bangalore City Traffic Police have identified 128 locations for construction of Bus Bays. The Bangalore Mahanagara Palike has entrusted the study of this project to an expert agency. This needs to be expedited.

A proposal to shift the Electric Poles / Telephone Poles / Transformers at 210 roads of Bangalore City is pending with Bangalore Mahanagara Palike.

A proposal to remove the Trees at 153 roads of Bangalore City is pending with Bangalore Mahanagara Palike.

The long term solution to remove congestion of traffic in Bangalore is to introduce Area Traffic Control System. This system is based on Scoot Technology (Split Cycle offset Optimize Technique) has been successfully adopted by Delhi Traffic Police in N.D.M.C. Area. Scoot system was developed by Transport Research Laboratory of U.K in 1973. Scoot is the method of co-ordination that adjust signal timings in frequent, small increments to match the latest traffic situation. Data from vehicle detectors is analyzed by a central on-line computer, which calculates timings that are predicted to minimize the congestion. It co-ordinates free flow of traffic and control congestion by restricting the number of vehicles entering a congested area.

A proposal to create additional strength of 1832 men is pending with government.

There is an acute shortage of funds for traffic improvement. At present bills worth Rs.7.25 Crores are pending. A proposal for release of funds is pending with the government .

To conclude it is once again emphasis that civic agencies such as Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, Bangalore Development Authority, BESCOM etc., should effectively co-ordinate with Traffic Police on various projects listed out by police. Creation of adequate infrastructure and effective enforcement will ensure efficient traffic management in Bangalore City. This will go long way improving Bangalore livable.


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