AMC to revive 'no vehicle zone' across Ahmedabad - Daily News & Analysis

File photo of no vehicle day on CG Road - File Photo/DNA Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is planning to revive the 'No vehicle zone', a forgotten concept now, to combat the rise in traffic bottlenecks across the city. As a step towards reviving the concept, the civic body would carry out a survey across the city roads. It would explore and identify some of the major roads which witness massive jams and suggest ways to reduce the same. In order to promote pedestrian areas and avoid traffic jams every Sunday, no vehicle would be allowed on such roads on Sunday evenings. "The entire idea is to decongest the roads which witness utter traffic jams. It is high time that we take steps to decongest traffic," said municipal commissioner Guruprasad Mohapatra. "We are planning to introduce a lot of elements for the city roads. Under this, there would be no vehicle zones, one ways, timing-based one-way streets as well as vehicle-based one ways," he added. Timing-based one ways mean that some of the roads would be converted into one-ways at a particular time during peak hours. The vehicle-based one ways will allow only certain vehicles (like four-wheelers or two-wheelers) on that road. Though the proposal is at an experimental stage, the city will witness the decongestion in the next few months. Gone are the days when three major city roads — Municipal market to Swastik crossroads, Law Garden to NCC campus via Food market (Khau Galli) and Jaldhara to Pushpakunj — used to be free of traffic bottlenecks on Sunday evenings. These roads were identified by the AMC earlier due to traffic congestion. But, things went awry when it became one of the disregarded projects, thanks to the lack of police personnel. "We are ready to implement AMC's projects on traffic decongestion. But the AMC should be prepared with its project first," said deputy commissioner of police DH Parmar. via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEdiwAO9QdiUYjZGFwNn1Ef14n-nQ&url=http://www.dnaindia.com/ahmedabad/1858138/report-amc-to-revive-no-vehicle-zone-across-ahmedabad

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