New Delhi, April 25, 2008: The Lt Governor of Delhi Shri Tejender Khanna had expressed that his topmost priority would be to shape Delhi’s robust traffic. On May 9, 2007 he chaired a meeting of the resource persons group on traffic which included officials of DDA, MCD, PWD, NHAI, NDMC besides the Chief Minister of Delhi and experts like Dr. Raman Patel, a US citizen of Indian origin who had designed the layout of New York Traffic Management.

The deliberations of this group brought out the major aspects of the traffic related problems and the solutions for efficient management of traffic in the capital city of Delhi. Subsequently a traffic management center was created by the Delhi Police to intelligently manage the traffic for which they are now floating a global tender for the enforcement and management of the core traffic issues and to tackle the various road infrastructure and engineering issues such as maintenance of the optimal carriage way of the traffic, for the pedestrians, the road signages, the traffic signal systems including the pelican signals, the flyovers and the correct engineering aspects to avoid conflict of the merging traffic on the roads of Delhi.

A body with all experts and representatives from all the stakeholders / Road owning agencies proposed to tackle the road engineering issues placed before the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India. Ironically in the midst of the greatest traffic chaos Delhi has ever witnessed the Ministry of Urban Development today formally signed, sanctioned & notified the formation of Unified Traffic & Transportation Infrastructure Center (Engineering & Planning) under Section 5 of DDA Act.

Now the big question that awaits a satisfactory answer is: Will the BRT have to get the clearance by the body formed under the new notification. Yet to be inaugurated officially on May 1, 2008, the traffic chaos caused by the first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor in the national capital, Delhi since the trial run that began on April 20, 2008 has been a nightmare for the commuters. The BRT corridor which is primarily being blamed for "indiscipline" causing traffic chaos is a 5.6 km long route stretching from Ambedkar Nagar to Moolchand.

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