Home guards to help people cross roads

With a continuous flow of vehicles on the city roads, pedestrians, especially children and senior citizens, are facing problems in crossing the roads. In a bid to end their woes, Cyberabad Traffic Police has come up with an idea of creating ‘crossings’ across the roads in the city. At these crossings, signals will be installed to maintain the duration and home guards will be deputed to monitor and help pedestrians. At every crossing signal turns green every five minutes for 60 seconds. A few have already been set up in some places in the city as a pilot project.

National Highway 65 is one of the busiest roads and it passes through densely populated localities like Kukatpally, Hydernagar and Miyapur. The locals fear crossing the roads here. Before installing these signals, the risk of the accident was high on these roads. The paths were made in a few areas such as Nizampet, JNTU, KPHB, Kukatpally, Moosapet and Erragadda.  “Every day, my children go to school by bus, and I pick up and drop them at the bus stop in front of my shop. In my absence of the crossings, they were afraid to cross the road. Now, due to the latest efforts made by the traffic department, they are able to cross the road by themselves,” said, Prem Singh, a trader.

The traffic department deputed home guards to manage traffic at these signals. Ch Dhanaraju, Sub-Inspector, said that they were making sure that the vehicles stop at red signal and allow pedestrians to cross the road. With the efforts of the traffic department, the commuters are seen following the traffic rules for the last one week. Home Guard Subba Rao said, “We have been alerting the commuters about the rules and regulations, along with guiding the pedestrians.” At present, signals are installed only at a few spots, and the traffic department is planning to set up the same all over the city soon.

BY Mohsin Ali