KOLKATA: They may not be as slick as the automatic increase obstacles that open and shut in sync with visitors alerts, but contemporary experiments with the manually-operated drop gates — equivalent to railway stage crossing — have satisfied Lalbazar officers that the inexpensive variety may well be the one answer at crossings that care for large pedestrian motion.
Weeks after a drop gate used to be installed underneath the Brabourne Road flyover on Strand Road, visitors officers have decided to put in them at other spots in and around central Kolkata. Two extra of these had been installed on the Strand Road-Woodmount Road crossing and Strand Road-MG Road crossing. DC (visitors) Sumit Kumar said the use of drop gates has been encouraging.
“While you do desire a personnel to operate them, there is not any query of them breaking down. They additionally do not observe a hard and fast time cycle like increase obstacles, so they can be operated when there is pedestrian force,” said an officer. They are also useful in areas like Burrabazar where three wheelers like trucks and tempos take up large road area and slow down visitors motion on arterial roads as they flout alerts.
Traffic division officers, on the other hand, claimed that such answer has been planned simplest in areas where pedestrians outnumber or are equal to the choice of cars crossing the spot at a given point of time. For vehicle in depth crossings, the cops will still rely on increase obstacles.
“Initially, there have been some minor system faults with synchronisation but they were mounted soon. The Howrah visitors guard has adopted to the gate smartly. We will continue the trial run as a part of sensitization for some extra time. The teething troubles will have to also be mounted sooner or later,” said a senior officer at Lalbazar.
Police will plug the small gaps during which the pedestrians are sneaking past and get started prosecuting jaywalkers.
Weeks after a drop gate used to be installed underneath the Brabourne Road flyover on Strand Road, visitors officers have decided to put in them at other spots in and around central Kolkata. Two extra of these had been installed on the Strand Road-Woodmount Road crossing and Strand Road-MG Road crossing. DC (visitors) Sumit Kumar said the use of drop gates has been encouraging.
“While you do desire a personnel to operate them, there is not any query of them breaking down. They additionally do not observe a hard and fast time cycle like increase obstacles, so they can be operated when there is pedestrian force,” said an officer. They are also useful in areas like Burrabazar where three wheelers like trucks and tempos take up large road area and slow down visitors motion on arterial roads as they flout alerts.
Traffic division officers, on the other hand, claimed that such answer has been planned simplest in areas where pedestrians outnumber or are equal to the choice of cars crossing the spot at a given point of time. For vehicle in depth crossings, the cops will still rely on increase obstacles.
“Initially, there have been some minor system faults with synchronisation but they were mounted soon. The Howrah visitors guard has adopted to the gate smartly. We will continue the trial run as a part of sensitization for some extra time. The teething troubles will have to also be mounted sooner or later,” said a senior officer at Lalbazar.
Police will plug the small gaps during which the pedestrians are sneaking past and get started prosecuting jaywalkers.
Kol: More drop gates to help manage pedestrians
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