As per news article on TOID of 15th Sept. 2009
Nearly 114 traffic signals went on the blink during last week's downpour.
Out of the 725 traffic signals in the city, a majority stopped working last week amid incessant rain. Traffic police figures revealed that about 78 signals in the areas maintained by CMS Systems stopped working, another 36 were not functioning in the areas managed by Keltron.
The new contracts have taken this into consideration to sort out this problem in the future,'' said S N Shrivastava, joint commissioner of police (traffic).
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/city/delhi/Most-traffic-signals-went-on-the-blink-during-rain/articleshow/5011346.cms
Monday, September 14, 2009
NMC appoints new company to look after traffic signals
As per news article of 12th Sept. 2009
NMC said that the decision to appoint the new contractor was taken due to frequent complaints about many signals at important junctions like Rani Jhansi square, Shankar Nagar square, Rahate Colony, Ajni square, Reshimbagh square, Sakkardara square, Tukdoji Putla square, Gandhibagh square and Gaddigodam square.
"Unaware of non-functioning lights, motorists tend to ignore signs of policemen regulating the traffic. They block the way and choke the route," said head constable Shaikh Asif.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/city/nagpur/NMC-appoints-new-company-to-look-after-traffic-signals/articleshow/5000912.cms
NMC said that the decision to appoint the new contractor was taken due to frequent complaints about many signals at important junctions like Rani Jhansi square, Shankar Nagar square, Rahate Colony, Ajni square, Reshimbagh square, Sakkardara square, Tukdoji Putla square, Gandhibagh square and Gaddigodam square.
"Unaware of non-functioning lights, motorists tend to ignore signs of policemen regulating the traffic. They block the way and choke the route," said head constable Shaikh Asif.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/city/nagpur/NMC-appoints-new-company-to-look-after-traffic-signals/articleshow/5000912.cms
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Traffic Signals : Light at the end of Tunnel
As per an news article in TOID, Sep 4,2009
Delhi has around 725 signals and 424 blinkers. Over 90 signals remain bad in a typical day and in case of heavy rains the figure goes up to 130.
After months of chaos, now delhi police has invited a tender for maintainance and this time the contract includes a stringent panelty clause of non-performance.
Tender is publilishd on Aug 29,2009 for next 2 years and will include installation of new signals and blinkers.
If a traffic signal remain non functional for five days, police will not pay charges for maintaince charges for that signal and a penalty of Rs 500/- is charged after that..
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