Team Herald
PANJIM: The Director General of Police (DGP) Jaspal Singh blamed the ever increasing number of vehicles and the absence of corresponding infrastructure or widening of road and parking infrastructure in the state for the traffic problems witnessed on the roads of Goa.
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O Heraldo had publshed a tweet and a photograph of the massive traffic congestion witnessed from Porvorim to the Panjim-Merces circle on Monday afternoon. “How come this is news? Traffic density is a variable phenomenon subject to bandwidth of roads and contingencies of breakdown of vehicles, extraordinary events and sudden accidents. If any of these events occur, traffic is bound to move slowly,” DGP Singh stated in a tweet, while referring to the O Heraldo news report
“While about 60,000 vehicles are added every year there is no corresponding expansion or widening of road and parking infrastructure,” he added.
The commissioning of Atal Setu — the third Mandovi Bridge — has not solved the traffic problems near Panjim bus stand area as traffic congestion was reported at the Merces junction, on Monday
afternoon.
To the exasperation of all, there were no traffic police at the spot while the traffic signals were non-functional. Many motorists and two-wheeler riders had to wait for almost half an hour in the scorching sun due to traffic jam.
Some spirited citizens then got into action and started directing traffic at the Merces circle in a bid to decongest the area. It was only much later that a traffic cop arrived at the spot but not before a sea of vehicles coming from all directions and blowing horns.
A couple from Pune driving towards Margao said, “We are stuck here for over half an hour.”
