Kol: Cops strive to make Bypass stretch safe

Kolkata | Thursday | 10th January, 2019

Summary:

Once these 60-second phase lapses, the vehicles from Science City are halted for 30 seconds to allow Maa flyover and service road cars to pass. “If the EM Bypass is the most accident-prone, this is our Achilles’ heel. This concept has been introduced on the Santragachhi flyover with great success,” said an officer.But cops on the ground pointed out that speeding vehicles do not always pick up this narrow alignment. The road on the northern flank shrinks at this point, and we often find vehicles coming from the Science City direction jostling for space with cars speeding down the Maa flyover. “The plan is to allow one lane of vehicles to move forward even as we hold back another lot..