Car pooling, still a distant dream for Jammu city, as people not showing interest

Tahir Mushtaq

JAMMU, Oct 6: Car polling idea of Jammu Traffic police to smoothen the traffic scenario in the Jammu is yet to be implemented, as the department has not got any response from the public side.

“To reduce the traffic congestion on the roads of Jammu the department has introduce the proposal of car polling, but for that we needs support from general public to come with the demand, but till date the department didn’t get any response from their side” said Inspector General of Traffic Police, Hemant Kumar Lohia.

He added that to reduce the traffic violations, the department also initiated a method of realizing challans in which the violators will not be charged on the roads, but they have to fill a form only, the challan would reach to their address,” said Lohia, adding that it will help in ending corruption in the department.

Sources said that the idea behind starting car polling in the city is to overcome the traffic problems due to which public suffered.

They further said that keeping the increasing vehicular traffic in view the traffic department is going to start Pool Car System to reduce traffic on Jammu roads.

“Basically the idea will be benefitted for the employees of both private and government sectors and students having same destination” they added.

Car pooling is the system which is utilization of private or jointly hired vehicles, for private shared journeys. The vehicle is not used in a general public transport capacity such as in car sharing, share taxis or taxicabs. Car pooling also differs from other sharing schemes such as where company government or private vehicles are used by several people at different times.

Lohia disclosed that to execute the plan in visible, the department has launched many awareness programmes in educational institutes, government and private offices and through newspapers. The implementation of this system would be tough as local population may resist this change.