Wilful disobedience and ineffective enforcement of traffic rules worsen traffic mess on Big Bazaar Street

Wilful disobedience and ineffective enforcement of postulation rules connected Big Bazaar Street has worsened the suffering of commuters successful the city.

Hundreds of retail and wholesale traders run on the Big Bazaar Street, close from Gandhi Market arch to Theradi Kadai Veedhi. The thoroughfare is considered arsenic a nervus centre of commercialized activities successful the city. Several streets, chiefly Big Kammala Street, Jaffersha Street and Singarathope, articulation connected the Big Bazaar Street. Right from market stores to textile showrooms and Indian medicine stores to English medicine stores and jewellery showrooms to imitation jewellery showrooms, the thoroughfare offers everything to the shoppers, thereby making the thoroughfare a commercialized hub successful the city.

But the thoroughfare bears the brunt of worsening postulation with the motorists, traders, hawkers, pavement traders, shopkeepers, and others violating the postulation rules astatine their will. According to the metropolis police, a 1 mode postulation regularisation is being enforced on Big Bazaar Street. It means that the motorists are disallowed to thrust from the bluish broadside to the confederate broadside of the street. However, it seems that the motorists hardly respect the 1 mode postulation rule. It is communal to spot car rickshaws, two-wheelers, traders connected wheels driving and airy commercialized vehicles towards the Gandhi marketplace from the Big Bazaar Street, thereby causing postulation congestion.

As per the billboards enactment up by the police, two-wheelers tin beryllium parked on the eastbound broadside of the thoroughfare connected Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and the other broadside connected Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. However, 2 wheelers are parked connected some sides connected each days, thereby shrinking the existent usage information of the road.

On their part, the traders and shopkeepers encroach the roads by parking their two-wheelers and billboard advertisements successful beforehand of their shops. Vehicular postulation comes to a halt for a agelong clip if a car oregon airy commercialized conveyance enters the roadworthy successful the incorrect direction. The load men, who run pushcarts, autorickshaws, and load carriers, entering successful the other absorption adds to the woes of the commuters. It often leads to postulation snarls.

The mode successful which the commuters endure implicit the worsened postulation woes requires astatine slightest six constabulary unit truthful arsenic to antheral the postulation astatine assorted junctions connected the thoroughfare astatine immoderate fixed time. But, section traders assertion that a capable fig of policemen are not posted to enforce the postulation rules and regulations. “We are fed up with motorists violating the postulation rules astatine their will. It is precocious clip to station an capable fig of policemen connected the Big Bazaar Street,” says R. Akilan, a shopkeeper connected the street.