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

Idea shortlisted by "ET Power of Idea"

We submitted our business plan for Economic Times "Power of Idea" campaign in Feb 2009. Over 12000 people submitted their business plan. Out of which 1000 have been shortlisted for next step. Our idea on Traffic Fault Monitoring is one of them.

List of successful persons whose business plans have been selected is here

New Website to Beat Traffic Jams

As per a news article by atulmathur@hindustantimes.com in HT, March 29,2009 Shailash Sinha has launched a website thetrafficpeople.net.   

Sinha's company already provide traffic updates to various FM and TV Channels. 

People can register on this website and get regular traffic updates on their mobile phones.

Read the complete news article here.

Do we need traffic lights or Discipline

Traffic Signals signify Discipline, which of limited value and does not make us more virtuous.

In an articles in TOI, Mar 15,2009 issue, harsh kabra talks about usefulness of managing without traffic light (or discipline)

Read complete article here

Traffic Jams Triple Heart Rate Risk

As per a recent research conducted in Germany and presented at American Heart Association's 49th annual conference in Florida, it is reported that driving or riding in Heavy traffic poses an additional risk of eliciting a heart attack in persons already at elevated risk

View the complete articles in TOI, Delhi on March 15,2009  here or here