PANJIM: Almost a week after the continuous traffic chaos at the Cortalim junction, the state administration appears to have finally woken up to the hardships of the common man.
The Chief Minister’s office in a communiqué said that as per the instructions of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who is in the US, Chief Secretary Dharmendra Sharma, DGP Muktesh Chandra and Principal Secretary to CM P Krinamurthy, accompanied by traffic police and PWD officials visited both sides of the Agassaim and Cortalim junctions to take stock of the traffic bottlenecks.
“PWD has been directed to make a slipway from Cortalim junction for traffic moving towards Margao to ease flow of traffic. Work is being taken up immediately,” the release says.
The CMO further says that the pothole filling that’s being hampered by incessant rains is being taken up on a continuous basis with deployment of additional manpower.
“Traffic police have been directed to deploy additional manpower to ensure lane driving and regulate smooth movement of traffic and to support them two platoons of IRB have been deployed. Police have issued detailed instructions to field formations for continuous monitoring of traffic situation. Traffic has since been moving smoothly along the highway,” it says.
Meanwhile, the traffic police survey has blamed the ongoing construction work on the Zuari bridge and the potholes around the site to be responsible for the traffic chaos.
“The ongoing construction work leading to restricted road space thereby limiting the discharge at junction/ roundabout. Also, deep potholes around these stretches causing accumulation of water therein leading to slowing down the vehicular speed resulting in piling up of vehicles,” says a note from IGP Jaspal Singh, IPS.
