CM wants more one-way roads in city, but violations rampant, monitoring inadequate on existing ones
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Jaipur: Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma's instructions to implement one-way traffic on the city's busiest roads is questionable, as the routes already declared as one-way lack monitoring and violations are common.
On Sunday, when Team TOI visited these one-way routes, traffic was moving in both directions on most of them. At Tonk Puliya underpass, a traffic board clearly says in Hindi that motorists from Barkat Nagar side should not take a right turn towards the underpass, but almost all vehicles from that side were turning right towards the underpass here.
A few months ago, the traffic department declared one-way traffic on a few roads in Raja Park from 4pm.
The imposition is still on paper, but there is no such restriction on these roads.
The stretch between Kendriya Vidyalaya in Bajaj Nagar and Tonk Road was declared one-way only last week. Although a barricade is placed to stop movement of traffic from the Gandhi Nagar Railway Station side, most vehicles violate the norm whenever there are no traffic officials posted.
"We don't have enough manpower to be deployed on the roads. The problem is that motorists in Jaipur continue to violate norms until and unless there's human intervention," said a senior traffic official.
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