chennai traffic

Chennai's new mobility plan prioritizes institutional reform with the operationalization of Cumta, a coordinating body for transport decisions. This shift from fragmented planning to a formally instituted process, supported by extensive data and public participation, aims to align implementation and improve urban mobility outcomes across the metropolitan region.

Speeding vehicles at Nandanam, Halda and Kathipara junction will have to keep themselves in check after the Greater chennai traffic police installed nine Automatic Number Plate Reading (ANPR) cameras at these junctions on Monday.

The Greater chennai traffic police closed 277 pending drunk driving cases and collected 28.72 lakh in a special drive by making phone calls to violators through call centres.

The Greater chennai traffic Police (GCTP) in a two-day drive against defective number plates have identified and detained 145 vehicles with fake number plates.

chennai traffic police have banned the use of mobile phones by on-duty personnel, following an order issued by additional commissioner R Sudhakar. The order aims to ensure that traffic cops focus on their duties, follow traffic rules strictly, and prevent accidents by continuously monitoring for violators.

In wake of a lukewarm response to the traffic call centre created to collect pending traffic violation dues, the Greater chennai traffic Police (GCTP) put up special checkpoints at 168 places last week to enable violators to pay their dues. Police said 4,083 violators paid their dues and 16,072 cases were closed, with a fine amount of ₹48.59 lakh.

After receiving several complaints that the same personnel were working in a particular area for working more than five years, the chennai traffic police will transfer 1,000 men to different zones.

Anticipating heavy traffic on the roads, the Greater chennai traffic Police have been asked to take charge at all the 400 signals in the city.

Traffic offenders should be off the roads as per the rulebook, but a lot of them are not. chennai traffic police want 5,500 motorists, who have committed serious traffic offences such as drunk driving or using phones while on bikes more than twice, punished by permanently banning them from using roads.

The chennai traffic Police has taken up an awareness campaign against footboard travelling by erecting flex banners.

With 58 pillion riders having died in road accidents involving two-wheelers since January 2022, the Greater chennai traffic Police (GCTP) have increased the vigil thereby booking 57,826 cases against pillion riders in the city for helmetless driving.

The state highways department has sanctioned 15.7 crore for acquiring defence land to widen GST Road at Pallavaram. This is aimed at decongesting traffic from Guindy to Tambaram.

In light of Police Commemoration Day 2024, Greater chennai traffic Police have announced diversions near police headquarters. Key routes including Santhome High Road and Kamarajar Salai will experience restricted access and rerouting from 8am to 9am. MTC buses will follow alternate paths to accommodate the changes.

Greater chennai traffic Police (GCTP) have announced traffic diversions to facilitate repair works of a road cave-in after a sewage pipeline burst at Astabujam road intersection on Perambur Barracks Road.

The power cut has hit every section of the population -- including traffic policemen. At least for an hour every day as the signals go blank during the scheduled power cuts, the policemen are forced to manually control the traffic flow in the scorching heat. "In Mylapore, the supply is switched off at 9 am, which is a peak hour and everybody is rushing to office. It becomes a headache when the signal also goes off," said a traffic constable posted at Mandavelli.

With many locations in Pulianthope still inundated and construction of storm water drains at Ammayammal Street, the Greater chennai traffic police have brought in modifications in traffic rules for heavy vehicles and buses plying through the locality.

Dashboard camera videos can be submitted as proof to challenge traffic cases in Chennai. The Greater chennai traffic Police (GCTP) is allowing traffic offenders to challenge their cases within seven days. A team of constables validates every offence captured on cameras across the city.