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Tag: Traffic Management

How Goa is Adopting Smart Parking

In May 2018, the Imagine Panjim Smart City Development Corporation (IPSCDL) said that there is a plan to create 4000 parking slots in Panjim city which citizens can pre-book using an app. Further, it also revealed plans of installing 450 CCTV cameras from Panjim to Dona Paula in order to monitor traffic rules compliance as…

21 September 2019 by Jill Ferguson

Senior Citizens Play Role of Traffic Wardens for Free

The Goa Traffic Police’s Traffic Warden Scheme provides for citizens to get involved in road safety and traffic management issues at the Village Panchayat and Municipal levels. This is a purely volunteer driven scheme in which citizens can manage traffic in collaboration with the traffic police only. As part of this scheme, several senior citizens…

21 September 2019 by Jill Ferguson

Miramar’s White Elephant Foot Over Bridge May Go

In April 2019, the state-level high powered steering committee (SLHPC) met to discuss the traffic and safety threats posed by the Miramar foot over bridge and has in principle, agreed to dismantle the largely redundant and unutilized asset. The foot over a bridge which has led to severe traffic congestion on the road and posed…

21 September 2019 by Jill Ferguson

Ponda College to be 1st to have Road Safety Patrol

In February 2019, the Goa Road Safety Forum decided to form the first Road Safety Patrol (RSP) in an education institute in Ponda i.e GVM’s College. The formation of this RSP would entail teaching students hand signals, traffic signs and other rules of the MV Act and then enlisting their support to the traffic police…

21 September 2019 by Jill Ferguson