Capital Complex District Administration has been taking all out efforts to make the overall traffic scenario in twin capitals better through a series of efforts ranging from carrying sudden motor vehicles checking, imposing penalties on violators etc. Last week Home Minister Bamang Felix conducted an interactive meeting with the traffic personnel of Itanagar and Naharlagun to have direct feedbacks to be used as  inputs for  framing a comprehensive traffic management blueprint. Before these Chief Minister Pema Khandu was also apprised of the current state of affairs of capital traffic and steps that are necessary for long term solutions. Taming traffic is really a serious issue for the administration and a prolonged attention to it is necessary to have a way-out.
Traffic is a big headache  all over the country, puzzling urban planners for quite a long time and has become acute particularly during last two decades, when there had been a phenomenal growth of urban habitats. A growing middle class that happens to be more than the size of many countries prefers to lead an urban lifestyle with all guaranteed amenities. They also nurture the dream of owning own conveyance, a four-wheeler or a two-wheeler at least, more out of the sheer need for saving time in transportation than as a status symbol. This has led to an explosion of vehicles and since the number of thoroughfares are not increasing proportionally, traffic woes are daily features in all major cities including the existing metros and those striving to attain the status of metros. Excluding a few planned cities like Chandigarh and a handful others, the problem has reached an unmanageable stage given the fact that most of the urban expansions have followed unplanned paths.
Thus, although it is not a problem exclusive to state’s twin capitals, it can’t be denied either that poor quality of roads is one of the principal cause of traffic snarls here. Building roads and making them useable on a continuing basis in a hilly state like Arunachal where landslides and other nature triggered hindrances are frequent, is thus a challenge. And for all practical purposes from a citizens point of view, it can be said that the approach to traffic mess should be a multi-dimensional one with special stress on fixing infrastructure and ushering discipline among denizens.
The aim should be to arrive at a consensus when both administration and people would steadfastly stick to their respective responsibilities. If building modern traffic management system and addressing road infrastructure drawbacks urgently are the obligations of the former, the latter must contribute by sticking to the basic norms of traffic discipline.
All plans of actions must therefore be chalked out giving due weightage to these twin truths.

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
      She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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