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VASCO
With traffic chaos continuing to prevail over the lowered height gauge bar at the Vasco railway overbridge, heavy and tall vehicles have hit upon a novel idea to clear the bar and pass along the shortened route. Simply lower the tyre pressure.
In one such incident on Tuesday evening, a Tempo Traveller proceeding towards Vasco opted for this solution as it struggled to clear the lowered height gauge bar.
As a result, traffic was stranded on both sides of the road with a queue of vehicles proceeding toward Vasco seen till Mangor and a queue of vehicles towards Vasco also causing chaos near the St Andrew’s Church circle. Since the railway overbridge is within 300 metres of the traffic circle at St Andrew’s Church circle, the traffic jam on the road leading to Mangor halted vehicles arriving towards Vasco from Vaddem and Chicalim.
As traffic lines got longer, a traffic police team deployed at the St Andrew’s Church circle rushed to the site and tried to take control of the situation, in a bid to prevent traffic chaos at St Andrew’s Church circle. As the traffic jam became worse, there was a mad rush of vehicles trying to enter from all sides of the road.
With almost everyone almost out of ideas to resolve the situation, a two-wheeler rider hit upon the idea and advised the driver of the heavy vehicle to partially deflate all tyres to lower the height of the vehicle and enable it to pass under the lowered height gauge bar. Left with no option, the driver paid heed to the suggestion and removed some air from all tyres and managed to pass under the height gauge bar, thereby clearing the traffic jam.
