Cops, techies discuss traffic snarls in IT corridor

Hyderabad: To finding a permanent solution to the worsening traffic scenario in the IT sector,Cyberabad Police Commissioner, VC Sajjanar held meeting with heads of the major IT companies on Friday at Hotel Trident. The companies' heads expressed their ideas and suggestions that deal with various aspects of managing the traffic in the IT corridor.

Promotion of public transport system, carpooling system, development of wide road network for the area, provision for seamless pedestrian movement through proper infrastructure in the area, development of proper junctions with pedestrian infrastructure etc were some of the major suggestions received from the company heads.

Also, the participants expressed their views proposed staggered logout timings for the employees to ease traffic situation on roads during heavy rains and it was agreed to build a permanent mechanism effectively utilize this alternative solution in emergency situations.

A common communication portal of the facility heads of all the IT companies to be developed to communicate the emergency alerts among all the IT company employees. There will be three levels of alerts issued by the GHMC, traffic police and the third level alert should be shared across all the IT Employees.

Commissioner VC Sajjanar urged the IT companies to encourage traffic volunteering as it helps better communication flow and handling the emergency traffic issues on the roads.