Sir,
It is really a tragic sight to see people- senior citizens, students, ladies,patients etc.stranded in traffic jams and often walking for miles together for their destinations.Traffic jams,especially on the Jammu & Kashmir National Highway,have become a common phenomenon these days.Hundreds of vehicles including trucks, buses, cars,two wheelers etc are stuck in traffic jams causing untold sufferings and hardships to the commuters,school going children and working people.These traffic jams also lead to quarrels due to roadrage and often cause collision of vehicles, besides wastage of a lot of fuel and emission of poisonous gases such as carbon dioxide.The question is that why doesn’t the traffic police take appropriate measures in advance to prevent road congestion.
There is no doubt that with the rise in the econonoic status of the middle class people over the last few years, there has been a tremendous increase in the no.of vehicles in the country. So the Government needs to take notice of the surging vehicles and take measures to upgrade the existing roads vulnerable to traffic jams and improve the others.The drivers should be strictly prohibited to park their vehicles on the roadside in idle hours.The points on the highway which are more prone to traffic jams due to landslides or other reasons need to be identified and traffic police personnels deployed in adequate number on these points to prevent traffic jams.The traffic police needs to be vigilant on the eve of the half yearly movement of the nomads, alongwith their sheep and cattle to and from plains and hilly areas as many a time the traffic jams are caused by the sheep and cattle of the nomads on the roads.The drivers causing jams by violating traffic rules and resorting to overtaking need to be fined heavily to act as deterrant to do so in future.After all, why should such a large no of people suffer due to the fault of a few careless people?
Yours etc……
Ashok Sharma,
Flat No 4,
Housing Colony, Udhampur
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