In view of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the Planning Commission has approved a plan outlay of Rs.200 crore for development and modernisation of the traffic control system of the Capital during 2007-12. Intelligent video cameras According to the Delhi police, there is a plan to install intelligent video cameras at all major traffic intersections, which would be connected to a central command and control centre through the Internet for transfer of video images.

The right of way for the pedestrians envisaged as per the original concept of the Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS) comes under threat at the proposed BRTS corridor in the city. In the BRTS corridor report, as being presently proposed, the pedestrians are likely to face the threat of getting sandwiched between buses and the railings of bus stops.

It's official now. By deciding to provide more space to cars and doing away with medians in the BRT stretch beyond Moolchand, the government has virtually admitted that the apprehensions expressed by TOI since 2006 about the project were well-informed and valid. We had our ear to the ground with inputs from experts and our readers.

Without commensurate improvement in road conditions, parking lots coupled with a 13 times increase in the number of vehicles since 1982, Jammu region has entered into "traffic danger zone." About 2000 to 2500 vehicles are being added in district every month.

A DTC bus crashed into a bus shelter near Press Enclave on the pilot BRT corridor on Thursday. Said Anil Kumar Gupta, a traffic marshal who witnessed the incident:

A bus packed with commuters, a narrow corridor with little space to manoeuvre and people running to a bus stop located in the middle of the road