ARA IS RANKED SEVENTH MOST BAD TRAFFIC IN THE WORLD
The residents of Ara are struggling with traffic jam for years and the situation become so ugly that it has been ranked seventh in the world in terms of poor traffic system. People have to deal with this almost every day.
ARA IS RANKED SEVENTH MOST BAD TRAFFIC IN THE WORLD
5-OCT-ENG 5
RAJIV NAYAN AGRAWAL
ARA--------------------------The residents of Ara are struggling with traffic jam for years and the situation become so ugly that it has been ranked seventh in the world in terms of poor traffic system. People have to deal with this almost every day.
Traffic is becoming a major and perennial problem in town around the world. The continuously increasing number of vehicles in the last decade has made the situation worse. Ara in Bihar is also not untouched by this grave situation. The number of vehicles which were in thousands about15 to 20 years ago has now reached lakhs. In terms of traffic, small towns are leaving behind the big cities of the world.
The American Institute of National Bureau of Economic Research has recently released the list of cities with the worst traffic conditions around the world including the names of two cities of Bihar in India. In the list, Ara, headquarter of Bhojpur district of Bihar in India is ranked seven and from this the situation of traffic can be gauged easily at Ara. The report has been released by the American Institute after studying the traffic system of 1200 cities of 152 countries. Altogether eight cities of India are included in the list.
Ara has no provision of traffic lights at any intersection to control the traffic system. Even after 14 years of formation of the Ara Municipal Corporation (AMC), the government has turned a Nelson’s eyes and left it as a victim of neglect. Ara People are quite saddened by Ara being including among the 20 cities with the worst traffic conditions. They said that they would have been happy if Ara’s name appeared in some cities doing good work but now their city is facing a lot of pain due to being included in the bad cities.
Manoj Kumar Sudhanshu, Deputy Superintendent of Traffic said that there is a lack of road engineering. Parking of vehicles is done illegally. Various types of encroachments have been done along the roads due to which there is a problem ion the traffic system. This is the condition of the whole town. The roads are old and population has increased manifold.
On the other hand, people said that traffic police are deployed at different points at Ara to control traffic system but they themselves are indulged in malpractices causing traffic jam but no action is taken against them despite several complains.
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