Ban on parking near Vyttila

District Collector directs committee of officials to submit report in three days

January 22, 2018 12:33 am | Updated 08:18 am IST - KOCHI

District Collector K. Mohammed Y. Safirulla at a meeting held in the city on Sunday to discuss the traffic situation at Vyttila.

District Collector K. Mohammed Y. Safirulla at a meeting held in the city on Sunday to discuss the traffic situation at Vyttila.

Aimed at decongesting Vyttila, parking will be banned on alternative and approach roads to the junction. Alternative roads will also be optimally used to divert vehicles, it was decided at a meeting convened here on Sunday by District Collector K. Mohammed Y. Safirulla.

He directed a committee comprising officials of Police, Motor Vehicles Department and people’s representatives to submit a report within three days on making optimum use of alternative roads.

The views of people living on those roads will also be heard. A final decision on the matter and on converting a few roads near Vyttila into one-way traffic routes will be taken soon afterwards. The Traffic ACPs concerned will be placed in charge. The committee will also have to report on potholed roads that need urgent repairs.

Those who participated in Sunday’s meeting also spoke of traffic problems created by inter-State luxury buses parked on the bypass. Steps will be taken to divert them to Vyttila Mobility Hub and the vacant area in front of Gold Souk Mall. The Ernakulam RTO will submit a report on this in two days’ time to the Collector.

For a smoother travel

The traffic island and medians that hamper free movement of vehicles and pedestrians will be dismantled and those areas will be tar-coated. Zebra lines will be painted at pedestrian-dense zones to enable people to safely cross the road. More policemen will be posted to regulate traffic flow. All this will be directly monitored by senior traffic police officials.

Representatives of residents’ associations, councillors and officials of the Public Works Department (PWD), which is building the Vyttila flyover, and those from other departments too participated. They demanded that the NHAI take steps to build a wider underpass for Vyttila railway bridge.

Vyttila Janakeeya Samity's Shameer Abdulla suggested ways to decongest the junction. DCP (Law and Order, Traffic) Karuppasamy R. was present.

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