New system to check ‘stop line' violations

New signal warning system being introduced and installed at the MMC Junction on Monday.

The Chennai Traffic Police will introduce a new system on Tuesday to prevent stop line violations at junctions.

Censor

Christened ‘Stop Line Regulatory Censor', the mechanism will be made operational at the MMC Junction near the Central Railway Station by Commissioner of Police T.Rajendran on Tuesday evening.

Pre-recorded voice

Giving details about the system, Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) M. Ravi said that a pre-recorded voice would be activated by a sensor whenever a vehicle crossed the ‘stop line'. The alert message that goes ‘Attention please! you have crossed the stop line, please go back' would be repeated in English and Tamil.

“We are introducing this as a trial measure. Depending on the response, it will be extended to other important junctions,” he said.

According to Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) S. Manoharan, police plan to augment the system with an automatic camera that would photograph the vehicle violating ‘stop line' even after repeated warnings given by the pre-recorded voice.