Unfortunately traffic cops do not even bother to act despite spotting passenger vehicles ferrying passengers on rooftops as if such a huge violation is no crime and similarly rash driving goes unchecked and henceforth uncontrolled as well in cities and towns across Jammu & Kashmir
As Government takes up works on more and more road widening projects month after month and year after year more in cities and towns and less in villages across Jammu & Kashmir, the traffic congestion on roads triggered by the unprecedented rise in both the private and as wells passenger vehicles in cities and towns particularly the twin capital cities-Srinagar and Jammu heads to no dead end. While irrefutable fact is that an efficient traffic regulation system could have reduced the increasing traffic congestion in twin capital cities- Srinagar and Jammu and major towns of both Kashmir Valley and Jammu but it is also an equally irrefutable fact that people themselves also could have reduced the increasing traffic congestion by avoiding parking of private vehicles on roadsides near shopping malls, grocery outlets, schools, private hospitals and other such public places in cities and towns. While people by boarding passenger vehicles near four way crossings but not at bus stops are contributing to the rising traffic congestion in cities and towns, the traffic cops too contribute to the increasing traffic mess by allowing the minibus operators to run their transport business in violation of traffic rules and regulations in the most congested commercial hubs in cities and towns across Jammu & Kashmir. Unfortunately traffic cops do not even bother to act despite spotting passenger vehicles ferrying passengers on rooftops as if such a huge violation is no crime and similarly rash driving goes unchecked and henceforth uncontrolled as well in cities and towns across Jammu & Kashmir. The rash driving is though a big cause of unprecedented increase in the frequency of road accidents across Jammu & Kashmir but authorities neither book drivers for rash driving nor for ferrying passengers on the roof tops under broad day light in Srinagar city and major towns of both Kashmir valley and as well as Jammu division. Hundreds of complaints of over-charging, fleecing , and loud music blaring from mini passenger buses are reported from almost all parts of Srinagar city and major towns of Kashmir valley year after year but traffic officials prefer to shut their eyes instead of punishing the drivers for violating traffic rules under broad day light in Srinagar city and major towns of Kashmir valley.
“Penalising the traffic violators alone can’t smoothen the traffic management system in Srinagar city and major towns of Kashmir valley, but improving the facilities for the public transport system could be the right way to reduce the increasing traffic congestion in cities and towns particularly twin capital cities- Srinagar and Jammu”.
So by all standards of understandabilities the forceful implementation of traffic rules is huge challenge for the traffic regulation authorities in twin capital cities –Srinagar and Jammu and major towns of both Kashmir Valley and Jammu division. Penalising the traffic violators alone can’t smoothen the traffic management system in Srinagar city and major towns of Kashmir valley, but improving the facilities for the public transport system could be the right way to reduce the increasing traffic congestion in cities and towns particularly twin capital cities- Srinagar and Jammu.
