Source –\u00a0freepressjournal.in<\/p>\n
Mumbai:\u00a0<\/strong>The Bombay High Court today directed the city traffic police to submit a report on the steps it proposed to take to ease commuting woes in crowded market areas such as Crawford Market, Bhuleshwar and Zaveri Bazaar in south Mumbai.<\/p>\n A bench of justices Naresh Patil and G S Kulkarni also suggested that the traffic police join hands with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to crack down on the rampant unauthorised parking in such areas.<\/p>\n \u201cNobody cares about the rights of pedestrians. Just because one has a car, it doesn\u2019t mean one can park it anywhere one likes,\u201d the bench said, while hearing a PIL filed by city resident Rakesh Shukla over traffic congestion in south Mumbai.<\/p>\n The traffic police told the court it had formed a committee, which included an expert from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, to come up with remedial measures.<\/p>\n It also said the Joint Commissioner of Police, Traffic, and the Assistant Commissioner, BMC, had conducted a joint survey of Crawford Market and other such congested areas in the city.<\/p>\n At this, the bench said the committee must hold a meeting at the earliest to come up with remedial proposals and it must submit a report on the same to the court. In the last hearing, the bench had suggested that the traffic police restrict vehicular movement in the crowded market areas during the day.<\/p>\n