With over 1,500 new vehicles adding to the city traffic every day, Home Minister G. Parameshwara on Tuesday mooted the idea of regulating the number of vehicles that get registered.
Replying to Janata Dal (Secular) member K. Gopalaiah during the Question Hour in the Legislative Assembly, the Home Minister noted that Bengaluru city already had 61.6 lakh vehicles.
“There is a dire need to regulate the registration of new vehicles in the interest of managing the city’s traffic in future years,” he said, while describing the management of city’s traffic as a challenge for the police.
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Blaming the huge number of vehicles and infrastructure lacunae for the traffic bane, he said despite widening of roads, it had not been possible to ease the situation. The police had not only set up a traffic management centre for the scientific management of traffic, but were also using various technologies such as installing CCTV cameras at 180 major junctions for live monitoring of vehicle movement. While another 300 junctions were set to get CCTV cameras, other methods such as changing the direction of traffic movement and enforcing one-way rule were also being tried out.
These measures have helped reduce road accidents in Bengaluru from 10,505 in 2013 to 4,828 in 2015, he said.
While the city had 3,200 police personnel for managing traffic, another 600 Home Guards too had been roped in to help. The city would get 845 additional traffic police personnel this year, the Minister said.
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During Invest Karnataka, some investors raised the issue of Bengaluru city’s traffic and said it was being talked about even in New York G. Parameshwara, Home Minister