Quick Maintenance of Traffic Lights

Dwarka does not have many intersections covered by Traffic lights. Even these few do not remain in working order all the time. Possible reason for delayed repairs is late realization of faults. Companies maintaining these traffic lights can not possibly check all traffic lights under their jurisdiction on daily basis. As & when the faults are reported by traffic police or noticed by their staff, repairs are undertaken. Result is non-functioning of traffic lights at vital junctions for weeks.

A simple measure enforced by traffic police throughout Delhi would result in early reporting & therefore early repairs. Traffic police must ask traffic light maintenance company to put TELEPHONE NUMBER OF THEIR REPAIR CENTRE next to their name. Alternately, traffic police may give a centralised number for recording such fault reports.

Commuters or general public may be encouraged to report such faults directly to these telephone numbers if wide publicity is given to this arrangement. Earlier fault reporting would enable early repairs and, thus, downtime of faulty traffic signals would get reduced drastically.

Centralised reporting of faults by traffic police would, in addition, enable generation of reports of faulty behaviour, efficiency of maintenance company & its technology.