CWG special road lanes trials likely from Sunday

With the Commonwealth Games approaching, the Delhi traffic police are likely to begin by Sunday trials for the specially dedicated road lanes for the Games officials, athletes and tourists.

"We will begin field trials on the dedicated lanes within this week. As some roads are little narrow with only two lanes, we will have to see how we can adjust the lane and other traffic," Special Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Ajay Chadha told IANS.

There are 36 reserved lanes stretching from the airport to the Games Village and various sporting venues. These lanes will be on the right side of the roads and earmarked by broad blue bands and Commonwealth Games logo.

They will be guarded by the expanded force levels of Delhi traffic police, which will reach 5,500 personnel and over 1,000 volunteers.

"The dedicated lanes will be guarded by the traffic police, the volunteers and Delhi Police. They will be demarcated with signs pointing to them as the dedicated lanes," Chadha said.

According to Chadha, new initiatives to educate drivers about the dedicated lanes and lane management would also be started.

"We will also start drives to educate drivers regarding the dedicated lanes and lane management in general," he said.

The traffic police will also reach out to the public with traffic advisories to avoid the dedicated lanes through its popular profiles on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

"We will also use Facebook and Twitter to connect with the people. We will provide them updates and traffic advisories on the dedicated lanes," he added.

Besides the dedicated lanes, the traffic police recently inducted 200 fast interceptor bikes, 300 women traffic policemen and started a radio out-reach programme in which ace batsman Virender Sehwag gave safety messages to Delhiites.