The Extended ‘Roundabout’ at Clock Tower Removed due to Traffic Congestion Objection from Police

The Extended ‘Roundabout’ at Clock Tower Removed due to Traffic Congestion Objection from Police

 Mangaluru: The Work on Roundabout at Clock Tower had STOPPED as Traffic Police had raised objections since it was Larger than the existing Circle, which the police believed would have created Traffic Congestion/Chaos. Apart from this problem, the Clock on the Clock Tower had for the FIFTH time STOPPED working since its inception in November 2019. Just imagine a nearly Rs 70 lakhs spent on this clock tower, and already the Clock has malfunctioned FIVE times, and now showing FOUR different TIMES on FOUR Different CLOCKS?

Even though nearly Rs 70 lakhs taxpayers money was spent on the Clock Tower, the spending on this project has not STOPPED since Mangaluru Smart City Limited has added a Circle/Roundabout at the bottom of the Clock Tower- which means few more taxpayers money will be spent. And as we all know about Mangaluru City Corporation Consultant/IDF, Dharmaraj who is genius in planning/constructing MEGA Circles in the City, and this Roundabout at clock tower has kicked up controversy again as the Traffic Police have raised objections to the Traffic Engineered roundabout designed by the MCC consultants, including Dharmaraj? (Ref: Work on ‘Roundabout’ at Clock Tower STOPPED as Traffic Police Raise Objections of Congestion )

PHOTOS TAKEN BEFORE EXTENDED ROUNDABOUT WAS REMOVED…

The Crux of the problem lies in the fact that all around the proposed area indiscriminate/paid parking is allowed and this presents a picture of congestion. A high powered delegation led by the Mayor Diwakar Pandeshwar, Standing Committee Chairpersons, Corporation Commissioner Akshy Sridhar, Managing Director of Mangaluru Smart City Ltd (MSCL) Mohammed Nazeer, and Er Arun Prabha ( GM-Tech at MSCL), ACP’s Nataraj and Vinay Gaonkar, other higher police officials, Corporators, Corporation and Smart City officials, among others, related to the work had inspected the site to understand the plans, on 24 September around noon time. The Corporation Consultant/IDF Dharmaraj had explained the proposed design in full details. However, the elected representatives’ objection was that there were a lot of complaints from the public regarding the work taken up, also that the Traffic Police were objecting to the idea that a larger than the existing circle would inconvenience the public with congestion. Therefore, the ongoing work on this project has stopped for two days.

PHOTOS TAKEN AFTER THE EXTENDED ROUNDABOUT WAS REMOVED….

However, Dharmaraj explained that adequate space was available, which was demonstrated by site measurements and he also emphasized on the lane movements. After prolonged deliberations, it was agreed that necessary steps would be taken to sort out the problems. Even without the Roundabout, it should be noted that the space taken by the Clock Tower results in traffic congestion, during peak hours, since the stretch of the road from Hampankatta to State Bank and opposite direction sees heavy traffic. In the interim the Smart City has been instructed to concretize the roundabout area, the two smaller circles binding the clock tower will be completely developed as per the plans. Only the outer circle completing the entire development will be provided at the completion of all related works as per the detailed, traffic engineering backed details.

Therefore, after MCC Commissioner Akshy Sridhar, Mayor Diwakar and both ACP’s Nataraj and Gaonkar had urged the Corporation Consultant to hurry up with the change of plans and expedite the work as soon as possible, in order to prevent Traffic chaos and inconveniences to the commuters- which was agreed mutually by all of them- this morning (25 September) the extended Roundabout has been removed and the space would be concretized soon. It’s nice to note that objections raised by the Traffic Police had received positive results, where MSCL has sliced out the extended Roundabout- which was really needed, to combat the heavy traffic flow during peak hours, in order to avoid congestion and chaos.

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