Rise in vehicular traffic in Aizawl

AIZAWL, Jan 4 — Six vehicles, on an average, are being registered daily in the Mizoram capital which has witnessed a “staggering rise” in vehicular traffic in recent times, reports PTI. Aizawl district additional superintendent of police (traffic) Laldawngliana told PTI the town, with 22.15 km long roads, has a “large” number of 22,730 vehicles, according to information available in November. Last year 29 accident cases were reported in small picturesque town of which 11 were fatal ones. There are 1,026 vehicles for every kilometre in the capital where 315 parking places are notified, Laldawngliana said. A motorist C Rocchinga, who first came to the State in a truck in 1942 from Tlawng river side near Sairang, said traffic was quite few in numbers at that time. Traffic officials conceded that encroachment of roads was posing a serious problem to the systematic vehicular traffic planning.