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R. Raveendran, 40, a businessperson, says dropping his lad disconnected astatine schoolhouse has ne'er been much stressful. He takes astir an hr to implicit the 7-km commute from home. “It’s harrowing to beryllium successful an idling car successful unreserved hr traffic, swamped by a consciousness of helplessness arsenic you hold interminably for the snarl to ease”, helium says.
The concern is worse for two-wheeler riders, who hazard regular vulnerability to vehicular contamination connected the congested roads, says M. Vishnu Sankar, a post-graduate instrumentality student. He says that stressed-out drivers vent their rage by honking incessantly oregon arguing with different roadworthy users. “Rush hr postulation exacts a carnal and intelligence toll connected roadworthy users”, says Mr. Sankar.
Traffic congestion has intensified astatine respective junctions crossed the metropolis arsenic schools person reopened for different world year, forcing students, parents, and schools to accommodate to longer question times during highest hours. General Hospital Junction, the Kesavadasapuram – Pattom agelong and Vazhuthacaud person emerged arsenic large bottlenecks during the greeting and evening rush.
“We person precocious reporting clip by 30 minutes to assistance students scope people connected time”, said Sr. Sebin Fernandez, Principal, Holy Angels’ Convent Higher Secondary School, Vanchiyoor, Thiruvananthapuram. Geetha G, Principal, Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Cotton Hill, said that the schoolhouse has notified students to permission location earlier to debar delay.
On the Kesavadasapuram–Pattom road, schoolhouse authorities pointed to unfinished roadworthy and overbridge works arsenic large contributors to postulation delays. John, the transport in-charge astatine St. Mary’s Higher Secondary School, Pattom, said the roadworthy works that began six months agone stay incomplete, with trenches dug for pipeline works near unfastened successful immoderate areas, adding to the postulation congestion during unreserved hours. Assistant Commissioner of Police (Traffic South), Suresh Krishna, said postulation measurement peaks betwixt 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.
Thiruvananthapuram City Police Commissioner K. Karthik told The Hindu that determination was nary one-shot solution to the intensifying postulation congestion successful municipality centres. Vehicle density has accrued several-fold adjacent arsenic the carrying capableness of roads remains astir static. He said the Traffic Regulatory Committee would soon conscionable nether the chairpersonship of the City Mayor, V.V. Rajesh, to measurement measures to mitigate unreserved hr postulation congestion, including a connection to stagger schoolhouse timings, and summation the fig of location guards and postulation wardens connected the road.
Malavika Devi J.R. is interning with The Hindu
