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The constabulary person begun discussions to expedite the implementation of a caller postulation maestro program for Kozhikode metropolis successful coordination with assorted authorities departments, pursuing rising complaints astir recurring postulation snarls and a shortage of unit for manual regulation. The program volition suggest the instauration of intelligent postulation power systems and modern parking solutions, akin to those successfully adopted successful respective developed cities.
A exemplary of the projected maestro plan, prepared with inputs from postulation constabulary officers and different stakeholders, was precocious presented by Deputy Commissioner of Police Arun K. Pavithran astatine a district-level gathering chaired by Inspector General of Police (Traffic and Road Safety Management) S. Kaliraj Mahesh Kumar. The meeting, attended by District Police Chief T. Narayanan and different elder officers, reviewed the suggestions of section heads and discussed strategies for smoother postulation flow, improved roadworthy safety, the improvement of exemplary roads, and innovative backing options for postulation modernisation projects.
“The maestro program volition beryllium finalised with method enactment from experts astatine the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, and is expected to person backing from the Public Works section (PWD), the District Planning Committee, and the Kerala Road Fund Board,” said a elder constabulary serviceman who attended past week’s reappraisal meeting. He added that the inaugural besides aims to code past year’s alarming figures, which recorded 315 fatalities from astir 5,000 roadworthy accidents successful Kozhikode district.
According to precocious retired constabulary officers, a caller postulation absorption program has been agelong overdue to code shortcomings successful adaptive postulation power systems, modern signalling practices, aboveground markings, cautionary lights, AI-based surveillance cameras, and the realignment of accident-prone junctions. They said that the shortage of funds for these basal requirements should beryllium resolved done the practice of each authorities departments and readying agencies concerned.
“In the coming days, the metropolis indispensable migrate to adaptive postulation power systems, which set awesome timings based connected real-time postulation flow. This could beryllium piloted astatine cardinal junctions specified arsenic Mavoor Road, Eranhipalam, and Thondayad,” said a retired sub-inspector from the Kozhikode City Traffic unit. He added that the realignment of problematic junctions should besides beryllium a apical priority.
Experts who participated successful the caller district-level discussions besides identified the instauration of further outer parking facilities successful the metropolis and its suburbs arsenic a priority. The constabulary sources said the contented could beryllium efficaciously addressed erstwhile the modular parking plaza projects nether operation and the projected astute parking installation connected Kozhikode Beach are completed.
