Around 16,000 red signal violations at seven signals in five days
Nashik: Around 16,000 vehicles violated red lights between May 30 and June 2, data from the city's seven traffic signals in the city revealed.
The smart city corporation has installed red light violation detection (RLVD) cameras and automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras at 40 locations among the city's 55 traffic signals.
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These surveillance systems are connected to the command and control room at Panchavati divisional office building of Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC).
Presently, trial runs of RLVD and ANPR cameras are underway at seven traffic signals through the city's command and control room. The NMC anticipates launching full operations of its command and control room in the first week of July.
Smart city corporation officials said they are monitoring the movement of vehicles jumping red signals at seven traffic signals as part of their trial operations.
The data of the last four days show that around 4.80 lakh vehicles passed through these seven traffic signals, and 15,883 vehicles jumped red signals during this period. Some vehicles violated the signals twice or thrice or more, said smart city corporation officials.
The history of the vehicles regarding the violation of the red signals can also be seen at the command and control room, they said. Trials of another 33 traffic signals will soon be started in phases in the next few days.
Once the trials are completed, the command and control room will be made functional, said officials.
The smart city corporation has urged the NMC administration to paint zebra crossings at 40 traffic signals in the city at the earliest so that RLVD and ANPR cameras can be made operational next month. "We need the marking at all 40 traffic signals, and once it is done, we can make the RLVD and ANPR cameras at the traffic signals in the city live," said officials.
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The installation of RLVD and ANPR cameras at 40 traffic signals is part of the CCTV project, under which a total of 1,300 CCTV cameras have been installed at around 350 locations across the city. These CCTVs have been integrated with the command and control room of NMC.
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