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Mumbai: drivers driving at sea may make progress soon
Warning system, tell them what happens when traffic is blockedjammed roads.
A large electronic board, telling them the bottleneck of the journey ahead, will be placed on the flyover near the railway station at sea.
More such electronic boards will be set up in this city.
The variable signage on the huge electronic screen will indicate the best route and avoid route to the driver.
Therefore, if there is a bottleneck on the Mahim Causeway, the signboard at the Kherwadi junction will notify a driver on the Western Highway
Drive into town at Nariman Point to make an appointment-
Take another road
These special signage screens are already common on western roads.
Joint Police Commissioner (traffic)
Satish martour said the electronic board will soon be tried out at four major traffic intersections in the city.
A huge electronic screen was used on Saturday and installed on a truck with a display showing the road opened for Ganpati immersion at Chowpatty.
The same screen will be used for public information at the Bandra Expo on Sunday.
Deputy police officer (planning)
Sanjay Dani says these screens can be used for traffic control and public information websites when there is any emergency.
When there were rumors
Like during a flood or explosion.
These screens can play a useful role in communicating the right information to the public.
The Transportation Department is looking at which type of variable signboard, Mathur said
There is one that can be activated and changed via SMS-to use.
Traffic officials will track the movement of the city's main arteries and issue warnings on these boards via text messages.
Officials from the Metropolitan District development bureau in Mumbai said that when traffic headquarters are monitored at all major intersections, police will monitor urban traffic through television cameras.
The traffic officer will then advise the driver by selecting the appropriate information on the sign. Road-
Like the widening works on the Western Highway and the Eastern Highway, these planners say the Mumbai Urban Transport Project and other roads on the Mumbai urban infrastructure project will also be used as signage.
P. R. K. Murthy, head of transport and communications at MMRDA, declined to give a cost figure, but said the agency would try to get sponsors for the first experiment.
M. S. Muralidharan, a Chennai director
The table showing how the screen works here says that the price of the screen will be 2 rupees per unit.
"We have installed these screens in stadiums and other public places abroad and have received a good response," he said . ".
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