According to the traffic police, thousands of vehicles ply this stretch daily. There are delays in traversing this distance because of pedestrians dashing across the road, crossing over at several junctures
A fence installed by BMC at the spot to prevent crossing. Pics/Sayyed Sameer Abedi
To rid the western side of Borivli railway station of traffic congestion, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and Borivli traffic police have blocked 12 crossings on a 100-metre section of SV Road.
According to the traffic police, thousands of vehicles ply this stretch daily. There are delays in traversing this distance because of pedestrians dashing across the road, crossing over at several junctures. A traffic police officer stated in the report that they decided to block all gaps used by pedestrians to cross the road, and these 12 gaps needed to have permanent closures.
Barricades and fences have been set up to prevent people from climbing over. This has made locals happy, since they negotiate that distance faster and with less trouble. Some of them were taking narrow lanes as shortcuts to reach their destinations in time, which is not a good idea at all.
There is a real need to look at several traffic-dense areas, especially challenging stretches of roads and assess if people climbing over short dividers or even gaps are slowing down traffic, posing a danger not only to themselves but others, too, while running across the road amidst moving traffic.
While some dividers are low, so people are able to clamber over them. Sometimes, fence bars have been twisted and broken so that people can squeeze through them. There are gaps in between anti-crossing infra allowing people to push through them.
Those crossing over are in a hurry, and any gap suits them. They try to get across using lacunae in road infrastructure and exploit the spaces.
While repairs are important and plugging gaps becomes vital, people need legitimate crossing points for safety. Crossings are made for a reason, barricades are installed for yet another reason, so adhere to rules. Like they say, mind the gap — for all the right reasons.
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