Airoli traffic to be diverted

Police officials take action after DNA Navi Mumbai raises issue
Taking serious note of the traffic congestion at Airoli, the city traffic police have decided to divert all the heavy vehicles plying on the road. Apart from this traffic wardens would be deployed in the area to control the traffic.
The vehicular traffic to and from Navi Mumbai via Airoli has been badly hit by the ongoing concretisation work of the road that began three days back. As a result it took around one-hour to reach Airoli Naka from The T-junction during rush hours since the entire traffic has been diverted to one side of the road. The work is likely to continue till the end of May.
After getting information about the bottleneck created in the area, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Shrikant Dhivare visited the spot and decided to take remedial measures to ease the traffic congestion.
"We had received information about acute traffic congestion in the area. The situation would be really critical during rush hours as thousands of vehicles would reach the spot at the same time," Dhivare said. City traffic police officials had a meeting with their counterparts in the civic body and also the representatives of Mahavir Road and Infrastructure Private Limited, which is building the road on Thursday evening to find out solution to the problem.
"We have now decided to divert all heavy vehicles passing through the area. Those coming from Mumbai would have to take left turn from T-junction and those coming from Belapur will be diverted to Thane via the Airoli flyover near Rabale police station," Dhivare said.
The decision that was implemented from Friday morning and the results were visible immediately as the vehicular movement during rush hour was considerably smooth.
Apart from the diversion of heavy vehicles, permanent barricades will be installed on the side of the road which is now open for traffic. "This will further help in regulating the traffic as the barricades will help in linear movement of vehicles. It has also been decided to deploy traffic wardens in the area," Dhivare said. As per the decisions taken in the meeting, the contractor will provide traffic wardens who will be deployed in the area to control the traffic round the clock. "The entire stretch of the road will be converted into no parking zone to further ease the traffic congestion due to vehicle parked there," Dhivare said.