A mobile traffic awareness initiative of the city police, titled Traffic Electronic Park (e-park), which has been silently making rounds of city schools for a year now, is switching gear to gain pace.
The park, a modified bus with audiovisual aids, PowerPoint presentations and a stock of pamphlets and books on traffic rules and regulations, will be actively making the rounds of the city during Onam. It plans to stop at busy spots, including fairs and shopping centres.
Brochure releasedCity Police Commissioner H. Venkatesh, who released a brochure on the park here on Friday, said over 1.5 lakh people had seen the park over the past one year.
The effort was to inculcate safe traffic habits in the younger generation. This would be intensified over the coming days.
The park has been visiting schools, colleges, and residents’ associations, besides providing classes to erring drivers.
P. Bijoy, Assistant Commissioner (Control Room), said the mobile park would focus on the Shanghumughom beach and the Kanakakunnu Palace grounds during the vacation.
The brochure, released by Mr. Venkatesh in the presence of S. Ajeetha Begum, Deputy Commissioner, at Raja Kesava Das NSS Higher Secondary School, Sasthamangalam, would be distributed from the mobile park. The park was launched after attempts to bring down accidents by stricter enforcement of the law had little impact despite over 1,000 cases in connection with violation of traffic rules being registered in the city every day. “That is why we decided to take the awareness creation path, and that is evoking an overwhelming response,” Mr. Bijoy said.
