Be prepared for even more chaotic traffic, especially at busy intersections across the city, over the next 24 months. Barely six months after they finished a mammoth project of installing 698 Vehicle Detection Cameras next to hundreds of traffic signals to help cops manage traffic better, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is now busy pulling down 577 of these cameras from the BEST-owned electricity poles they were attached to! The cameras will be reinstalled on new electricity poles, and as BEST sets them up over the next 24 months, costing the exchequer Rs 4 crore.

The CCTV cameras will be reinstalled on new electricity poles. The BEST will set them up over the next 24 months and it will cost the exchequer Rs 4 crore. According to the BEST spokesperson, the poles have rusted and must be taken down. u00a0File Photo