KOLKATA: After two days of site visitors chaos round colleges that left a number of roads in south and central Kolkata in a large number for hours, the site visitors police on Friday launched a particular drive to crack down on errant motorists to make sure site visitors self-discipline. In all, 289 motorists have been prosecuted — 251 for parking illegally and 38 for honking in entrance of colleges.
Varied site visitors guards and the Particular Raid part of Lalbazar additionally issued 228 quotation instances and 23 compound instances. Police mentioned lots of them have been two-wheelers parked on pavements meant for youngsters to stroll to high school.
Round 50 instances have been slapped on motorists who had illegally parked alongside Rawdon Avenue and Loudon Avenue. One other 24 motorists who had parked on Sarat Bose have been prosecuted. Equally, 35 motorists have been prosecuted on Syed Amir Ali Avenue whereas 53 have been prosecuted round Park Circus. Within the Park Avenue-Middleton Avenue zone, there have been 23 prosecutions. All of the no-honking instances have been carried out by the anti-pollution cell and the Particular Raid part from Lalbazar. Every motorist must shell out Rs 500 for every offence.
“We had been saying that we are going to not enable greater than two days for school-bound automobiles to understand that unlawful parking won't be tolerated. The motion grew to become essential to convey again order in central Kolkata,” mentioned the officer, stating how groups led by joint CP (Site visitors) Santosh Pandey fanned out throughout town to make sure that the Wednesday site visitors mess didn't get repeated but once more.
In the meantime, cops additionally took a number of extra measures —based mostly on native necessities —to make sure sooner dispersal of site visitors after college obtained over. For instance, East guard declared the Rawdon Avenue space as noparking zone until 2.30pm. The Rawdon Avenue-Loudon Avenue stretch was cleared of jams at 8.18am on Friday morning (as in comparison with 9.07am on Wednesday and eight.32 am on Thursday) within the morning.
Points although remained with dispersal although cops ensured that Sarat Bose Highway functioned usually and took load off Rawdon StreetLoudon Avenue. Nonetheless, site visitors alongside Shakespeare SaraniHungerford Avenue slowed down throughout dispersal. Park Circus seven-point and Mullickbazar weren't clogged because the previous two days. Your complete stretch was snarl-free by 3pm.
Police mentioned that motion towards unlawful parking would proceed subsequent week. “Nonetheless, we expect the variety of guardian rely to go down considerably now that colleges have began. Nonetheless, with each ICSE and CBSE board exams from Monday, we are going to prioritize their motion. Faculties have made a number of preparations for the exams and we now have requested every site visitors guard to make satisfactory preparations for a similar,” defined an officer.
An officer of the East site visitors guard mentioned it had all the time been a problem to handle site visitors when the colleges are open. “Normally, when colleges are open, many commuters keep away from these stretches. Within the final two years, all these automobiles had been utilizing these stretches as a result of the colleges have been closed. On Wednesday, they will need to have been caught unawares. On Thursday, a big part of non-school site visitors stayed away from this areas. We hope they are going to begin avoiding these stretches once more now and hopefully site visitors state of affairs will ease farther from subsequent week when guardians cease coming to drop their wards,” mentioned the officer.