Summary:
“Had there been lesser load at the grain market, there wouldn’t have been any problem”, said the SSP, Traffic. A day after the fiasco of the Union Territory Traffic Police’s “circulation plan”, Director General (DG) of Chandigarh Police, Sanjay Baniwal, decided to drop the pilot project, saying he was not convinced with the diversion route. Analysing the circulation route, DG Baniwal surmised that the diversion of the traffic to the Sector 26 grain market towards St Kabir School led to the chaos in the morning. “The plan was presented before a traffic advisory committee around six months back and since then it is under discussion. The traffic diversions onto narrow roads adjacent to the Sector 26 grain market in the morning and Railway light point in the evening led to traffic jams at these points..