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MARGAO
Ahead of the naming of the Fatorda road after former Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on his birthday on December 13, the traffic signals installed at the Nehru stadium were operationalised on a trial basis on Wednesday.
The traffic signals have been installed at the Nehru stadium junction at the initiative of the Fatorda MLA Vijai Sardesai under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on the Fatorda road.
The stadium junction, saw serpentine queue of vehicles, especially along the Damodar temple road, but traffic police officials said it would take a couple of days more to streamline the vehicular movement.
In fact, Margao Traffic Cell in-charge, PI Suraj Samant informed that the operator has operationalised the traffic signals on Wednesday on a trial basis just to study the movement of traffic and set the timings. “Once the timings are set, movement of traffic will return to normal along the road. The traffic signals have been operationalised on a trial basis and will be implemented after setting the timings,” PI Suraj said.
Unlike the Old market (Colva) circle, which is wide in size, the Nehru stadium circle near the Damodar temple has no wide roads to facilitate slip ways, which will help movement of traffic.
“We are experimenting with the traffic signals and they will be commissioned after a thorough trial and study,” PI Suraj added.
Motorists travelling on the road, however, had to face the queues at the junction, which will be henceforth manned by the traffic signals. Some of the motorists cried foul over the timings, demanding that the traffic authorities set the timings at the earliest.
