Heavy vehicles continue to enter Sahnewal

SAHNEWAL: In an effort to reduce the heavy rush entry of heavy vehicles in Sahnewal town has been banned after the construction of a railway overbridge and it has been diverted from the Sua road towards Sahnewal before it finally takes the overbridge to Chandigarh Road

Updated At : 06:52 AM Jun 29, 2016 IST

Heavy vehicles enter Sahnewal’s Sua road in the absence of any check. tribune photographs

Lovleen Bains

Sahnewal, June 27

In an effort to reduce the heavy rush, entry of heavy vehicles in Sahnewal town has been banned after the construction of a railway overbridge, and it has been diverted from the Sua road towards Sahnewal before it finally takes the overbridge to Chandigarh Road.

However, the heavy flow of traffic from almost all directions, including Khanna, Ludhiana, Dehlon etc, crossing through the railway overbridge of Sahnewal, to take to Chandigarh Road, Macchiwara side, Ropar etc, is creating a chaos at Sahnewal Chowk, making the life difficult for daily commuters and residents.

Many times, commuters remain stranded in traffic jam for hours together owing to heavy vehicular traffic. Several measures have been taken by the administration to manage and regulate the traffic. But it has been observed that, many times, in the absence of any policeman at the diversion, the heavy vehicles simply give two hoots to the written warning and enter the town, multiplying the problems for other vehicles, which ply at the same time.

“There is little space for these vehicles to take a steep cut on the sides. In the process, they block the entire traffic from all sides and create a traffic chaos,” a commuter said.

As the correspondent visited the spot, no policeman was available and heavy vehicles had an unrestricted entry into the town. The traffic was disrupted and long lines were visible all through at Sahnewal Chowk.

ACP Gurmeet Singh said two policemen had been deployed at the diversion permanently and they were supposed to be there all the time. But sometimes due to VIP visits, this schedule gets disrupted. Even then someone on duty has to be available at the diversion so that heavy vehicle may not enter and pose problems for other commuters and effect the free flow of traffic on the Dehlon and Kohara road from overbridge as well.”

“As the entire traffic flow has been diverted from Sahnewal overbridge, it has become a challenging task for us to regulate the traffic, especially during the peak hours, but we have been managing it all through. The things will improve once the Gurthali bridge is complete and traffic begins to move from Doraha side,” the ACP added.