Ahmedabad city police introduces Area Adoption Scheme for traffic solutions

June 20, 2022
Ahmedabad city police introduces Area Adoption Scheme for traffic solutions

Ahmedabad: The city Police has introduced the ‘Area Adoption Scheme’ to resolve the traffic issue with public participation. The main objective of the scheme is to bring solution of the traffic issues with public participation in the areas with maximum traffic activities in the city. The scheme will be implemented in phase manner across the city. To start with, 36 areas are identified as adopted areas.

As per the scheme, the local residents, local leaders, NGOs, local merchants, local institutions, and so on, of a particular area will be supposed to jointly take responsibility of traffic of the related area and bring the required solution.

It aims that the public adopt the area and voluntarily implement the scheme by understanding their responsibility and participation, rather than the involvement of only government administration and enforcement agencies.

The stakeholders can be:  Ahmedabad City Police, AMC,  AUDA,  R&B ,  BRTS/AMTS ,  NHAI ,  chairman or secretary of residential society , Mill/GIDC chairman ,  Mall/ shop association president 1,  JP Research Institute 1,  NGO  Other related department/ institute.
The work will be:
To decide the traffic issues in the related area.
To plan for the parking as per the requirement in the area.
To plan signagis, bump, footpath and so on as per requirement in the area.
To plan the divider, cut, turning and so on.
To plan alternate parking as per the market’s requirement.
To suggest changes in the timing of traffic signals as per traffic volume.
To decide yellow stripes, no parking, no stopping and so on.
To decide one way and so on as per area’s requirement.
To plan after forming solutions as above or any other way after the study of traffic in the area and give required suggestions.
To get approval for all the solutions/ suggestions as a project initially and then get them implemented from a related department or institute.

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