Ludhiana, Aug 7: Solutions to traffic problems of Ludhiana were given by architects from “The Indian institute of architects – Ludhiana Centre (IIA-LC)” in a penal discussion held in Gulmohar Hotel.
The panel discussion was organized by Business India Exhibitors, organizers of Inside Outside Mega Show from Mumbai.
Ar. Ravinder Khosla, Chairman IIA-LC, welcomed everybody and explained about the ever increasing problem of traffic in Ludhiana with different existing examples.
Ar. Vikas Sharma in his presentation talked about traffic congestions in Ludhiana, rest of India and few other countries and explained his view point, how to overcome it.
Ar. Sanjay Goel, Secretary – Young Architects India as well as IIA-LC explained in detail about various problems and solutions of traffic. The observations of his panel discussion were as per following:
Location of Bus Stand/Local Bus Stand
Location of bus stand in the congested centre of the city is wrong now and Govt. is constructing many flyovers to solve it, whereas bus stand itself must be shifted outside at two to three places like Chandigarh (2)/ Panchkula / Mohali etc. to ease everybody. Movement of buses in and out of city bus stand is creating a lot of traffic problems, noise pollution, air pollution etc.
It takes more time for a bus to travel within city. Some times, than to go to the neighboring town or city.
Present bus stand can be converted into local bus stand for local buses, due to its centralized location.
Govt. is responsible for delay in local bus service, which can easily be started now within no time to solve traffic problems.
Completion of ring road, bye pass, flyovers etc.
So many unplanned projects going on at the same time without any fix completion time frame are causing maximum troubles to heavy, medium and light vehicles.
Govt. must complete all the ongoing road projects at the earliest for the conveyance of public and new projects of roads must be started in a planned and phased manner after consulting senior town planners, traffic experts, architects etc.
Trees, electrical and telephone poles in the middle of roads
Due to the lack of coordination among Ludhiana Municipal Corporation, Traffic Police, Forest Department, Electricity Board, BSNL, PWSSB, PWD (B&R), GLADA, LIT, PSIEC, NHAI, India Railways etc. and ever increasing interference of politicians, the city residents are facing maximum traffic problems and losing their precious life some times.
What to talk of removing traffic problems, govt. is unable to remove even trees, poles etc. from the middle of roads.
Existing roads can easily be widened at many places rather than constructing narrow elevated roads above wide roads.
Flyovers must be constructed immediately at railway crossings (Pakhowal Road, Shastri Nagar etc.) to save valuable time and traffic congestion whereas, Govt. is constructing un-necessarily elevated roads above roads at many places.
Metro Train
Metro Train project must be planned properly in advance at fast pace and after all clearances must be started at war footing to complete in record time to solve traffic problems.
Entry of heavy vehicles must be banned strictly in city, special during peak hours.
No open manholes and stray animals must be there in city.
Strength of traffic police must be increased, along with, there must be strict implementation of traffic rules like in Chandigarh, Delhi etc.
The panel discussion was attended by more than 200 people including architects, builders, interior designers, structural and civil engineers, representative from business India including Mrs. Mohini – Head, Mr. Anup Sachdeva – GM, Mr. Mahesh etc.
Ar. Rajan Sareen, Vice Chairman IIA-LC, presented the vote of thanks and mentioned special thanks for business India exhibitors for organizing 11th consecutive Inside Outside Mega Show in City.
The results of panel discussion will be submitted and discussed with various department heads in coming days as explained by Ar. Viney Jain, Secy. – IIA-LC
All the participants enjoyed the panel discussion and gave their valuable suggestions as well.
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