5-minute gap between convoys of 5 vehicles
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PANAJI
A circular issued by the Director of Mines and Geology has decreed that only a batch of five trucks will be released per transit route with a gap of five minutes between each batch of trucks.
“It has been decided that for the remaining days of the season a batch of five trucks each per single route shall be given transit passes, who shall move in a convoy from loading point till the unloading point and from unloading point till further destination there shall be a gap of five minutes after the last transit pass of the fifth vehicle is generated or the last transit pass is cancelled at an unloading point as the case may be to ensure that free movement of other vehicles and commuters is not disturbed for at least five minutes at a time,” Director of Mines and Geology Prasanna Acharya said in his order.
The step has been taken “as a further confidence building measure and a step towards regulation of transport
activity.”
The Mines department has also disallowed trucks to ply between 12.45 pm to 2 pm so as to avoid the parking of
vehicles on road between
1 to 2 pm.
The measures were necessitated, according to the Directorate of Mines and Geology so that for streamlining transport of on road, so that least inconvenience is caused to the other commuters.
However, the department acknowledges that “despite taking various measures there are some bottlenecks because of which general public is made to suffer.”
