Guwahati: Traffic snarls at Nepali Mandir turn clumsier

GUWAHATI: Traffic snarls at the Nepali Mandir area continue to turn clumsier from day to day.

This is the point where passenger buses meet from two sides, from the sides of Aryapith College and the GS Road via Ulubari. When school buses from both sides join the gridlock, the jams continue for a long time. Honking cars jamming from nose to tail have to wait for a long time in the sweltering heat to get the passage to go.

The competition on the part of city bus drivers to go ahead of others risks the lives of passengers as well as schoolchildren who travel on their school buses.

Traffic police personnel manning the traffic point say that they slap fines on the erring drivers for not following traffic rules that aggravate the situation. Even after keeping strict eyes on them, there are drivers who create trouble for others, leading to long gridlock, they say.

They say that people from the DTO office and the GMC should keep an eye on city buses that stay longer than the permitted time at bus stops. Staying longer in stops often leads to traffic jams that sometimes become very difficult to clear, some of the traffic personnel said.

The situation is aggravating every other day as the authorities are playing a blame game, one passing the buck to the other. While DTO and GMC officials often say that they have no adequate manpower to check buses regularly, traffic personnel have to see all these violations on the road.

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