Now, commuters take the wrong side to avoid U-turns

Noida | Wednesday | 12th September, 2018

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They travel on the wrong side till the service lane for Gaur City.Meanwhile, traffic police said they are seized of the problem and will start a drive on the spots soon.SP (traffic) Anil Jha said commuters have been travelling on the wrong side from the Ek-Murti side.“It is a tendency of violators to avoid U-turns. We will start penalising them soon,” he said.Traffic police said they will start issuing challans to those driving on the wrong side at this spot as well as in Parthala and Kisan Chowk areas soon. NOIDA: A day after the traffic police closed the intersection of sectors 50, 51 & 72 using jersey barriers, commuters were seen travelling on the wrongside to avoid the U-turns For example, those commuters exiting the Sarfabad village, Sector 72, were seen travelling towards the U-turn on the road between sectors 50 & 72.A traffic police constable deployed at the spot told TOI that many commuters exiting Sarfabad refuse to follow the diversion and it has become a free-for-all.Many commuters travelling at the Parthala and Kisan roundabouts, who want to avoid the U-turns on the connecting roads, are also driving on the wrong side Those travelling from the Noida Extension towards Sector 71 and FNG also tend to take a left on the roundabout and then a right, disturbing those travelling straight.Similarly, at the Kisan Chowk, those travelling towards NH-24 from Surajpur/Greater Noida could be seen driving on the wrong side by taking a right turn from the U-turn on the Noida-Greater Noida link road, much before the roundabout..