TOI, Delhi 25 Nov 2009

Traffic Chief says They can't do any thing to control large companies including a public sector companies Keltron and a large Pvt Sector company CMS.

He also said that repairs on defective traffic signal as shown on TOI photographs are under repairs.

However there was no mention of signal not reported by TOI but known to all persons driving in the city of Delhi

98 signals went on Blink in monday rain - No backups in case of outages main problem

As per a news article in TOI, Delhi on July 31

It says that monday traffic was horrible and as many as 98 signals went on blink after the downpour.

During rains, the power supply deptt cuts the supply to avoid electrocution and signals stop working.

SEEMS THEY NEVER HEARD ABOUT INVERTERS.

To check the complete news article click below

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/98-signals-went-on-the-blink-in-Monday-rain/articleshow/4839262.cms

Signals Do Not Work So Why Wont There Be Jams

Nov 3 issue of HT, Delhi carries a news article about 169 traffic signals being out of order or one out of every five signals are out of order.

Result is choas and long queues.

According to residents, the signal on shankar road near Ganga Ram Hospital has not been working for almost a month.

The link for news article is here

http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/newdelhi/Signals-don-t-work-Why-won-t-there-be-jams/Article1-472010.aspx

Delhi JCP says that IITs should work on Traffic Lights

S N Srivastava said in a seminar on road safety organised by IIT, Delhi on November 22,2009  that IITs should try to develop zero maintenance traffic lights to put an end to traffic jams caused by faulty traffic signals.

Experts says that this is joke. Rohit Baluja of Institute of Road Traffic Education says that same signals in cities like Mumbai and Banglore are working. There is no problem in technology.

Major cause of signal failure according to Police is moisture and power failure

Read the complete article at

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Traffic-chiefs-lame-excuses/articleshow/5262499.cms

Most traffic signals went on the blink during rain

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).

For complete article click here:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/city/delhi/Most-traffic-signals-went-on-the-blink-during-rain/articleshow/5011346.cms

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.

For complete article click here:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/city/nagpur/NMC-appoints-new-company-to-look-after-traffic-signals/articleshow/5000912.cms

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..

For complete article click here

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4969293.cms