Judge rap fails to lift Ranchi's traffic crawl curse

It will help set the traffic light time in a scientific manner," Dungdung added.However, there were a few stretches where the congestion appeared to be less severe. "There was no jam on the stretch between between Sujata Chowk and Albert Ekka Chowk around noon. I crossed the stretch in just 10 minutes on my bike," Arun Sahu, a resident of Argora, said.Chutia resident Ranjan Pandit said he crossed Karbala Chowk smoothly around 3pm.A traffic cop explained why. "After the HC rap, the constables were more alert. They did not allow unauthorised parking and traffic remained free." The problem of poor traffic management in the state capital runs so deep that even a high court rap fails to make things fall into place. Vehicles crawled on several roads on Friday, a day after Jharkhand High Court came down heavily on poor traffic scenario after a judge was caught in a bottleneck at Karamtoli Chowk in the heart of the city."I got stuck in a snarl for 15 minutes at Karamtoli Chowk where the signal turns green only for 20 seconds," Santosh Munda, who was headed towards Morabadi grounds to enjoy khadi fair with his family, said.Anantpur resident Tribhuvan Singh shared a similar experience. "I had to spend one hour to reach Kantatoli Chowk from Rajendra Chowk as the stretch between Sujata Chowk to Siromtoli Chowk was congested in the morning," Singh added.To compound the problems of commuters, the traffic light at Lalpur Chowk conked out resulting in long queues of cars."The traffic flow on Circular Road was affected by the malfunctioning signal at Lalpur Chowk. The traffic cop was finding it hard to regulate vehicular movement," businessman Dinesh Agrawal said.SP (traffic) Ajit Peter Dungdung admitted the problems, but assured improvement in a couple of days. Dailyhunthttps://www.advancedphotoshop.co.uk/user/zinzerginger