Traffic guards across the city have been asked to keep traffic kiosks under their jurisdictions well maintained. Signage and guardrails must be kept clean so that commuters can spot them easily.
Senior officers handling traffic management from Lalbazar have told the officers in charge of all 26 traffic guards that all “traffic furniture”, including signboards, spring masts, message display boards, traffic cones and kiosks should be well maintained.
Each traffic guard will have to set up a team of two-three personnel who will ensure cleanliness of different types of furniture. Twelve items have been listed that will have to be cleaned and maintained.
“The list includes traffic signals as well. It would be upon the traffic guard concerned to ensure that all signal lights are in working condition and check whether the defunct ones were being repaired. The retro-reflective tapes on the guardrails should also be visible from a distance,” said Pandey Santosh, joint police commissioner responsible for traffic movement in Kolkata.
“The best performing traffic guards will be rewarded after monthly assessments.”
Each of the traffic guards has over 25 kiosks under their jurisdiction where traffic personnel are posted.
On most occasions, the majority of these kiosks across the city’s key thoroughfares remain covered with dust.
The Telegraph has reported how guardrails, meant to slow down traffic, posed a hazard with most of them not visible from a distance.