Traffic signboards play a significant role in guiding travellers, thereby ensuring their safety. However, at some spots we find signboards damaged or missing from the concerned spots. It would be appropriate to mention a few such instances in Ponda. Firstly, the red arrow (depicting a turn) marked on the signboard near civil court at Tisk has disappeared from the site and the same is yet to be repainted. At Farmagudi, one can find newly installed signboards displaying ‘50’ (indicating speed) at specific spots. However, one such signboard has been damaged at Farmagudi and has not been replaced with a new one. Similarly, a signboard providing directions to different places has been damaged at the same location. Besides, the ‘DEAD SLOW’ signboard near the sharp turn adjacent to PWD at Daag has gone missing for more than three years. Rusted signboards, which were dismantled near Sneha Mandir at Bandora, have not yet been replaced with new ones. Such a tendency ultimately puts the lives of travellers to great risk and danger. A pamphlet has been pasted on the ‘No Entry’ signboard near Dessai Cloth Stores near old bus-stand and as a result, vehicles continue to proceed along this area. At some places, the signboards have been covered by creepers.
At Adpai, signboards have not been installed at sharp turns in ‘Dessai-Bhat’ and ‘Kumne-Bhat’. The roads here being narrow, there is every possibility of accidents taking place.
It is absolutely necessary that defective traffic signboards should be replaced immediately. Such a timely step would go a long way in ensuring the safety of motorists. Let us hope that the Ponda Traffic Cell would initiate immediate steps to bring the existing undesirable situation under control.
