44 pelican signals, 88 traffic wardens in Cyberabad area to help pedestrians cross road

HYDERABAD: Cyberabad metropolitan area is growing fast and vehicular traffic is increasing. Last year many pedestrians lost their lives and some got injured. Coming to their rescue, the Safe City Project in coordination with Cyberabad Traffic Police has taken pedestrian safety as a focus area and identified key areas for the benefit of pedestrians.

As part of this project on Friday, a pelican signal near the Google office, Kondapur was inaugurated by Stephen Raveendra, Police Commissioner Cyberabad along with Harshvardhan, DCP Traffic-1; Raghunandan Safe City Project Director; C Srinivas Jt. Secretary Traffic forum SCSC. CP Cyberabad urged the traffic wardens to facilitate the pedestrians and educate them on its usage.

The Commissioner expressed his desire to introduce more such signals in the future. “Volunteers play a key role in the operating of the pelican signals. The other 43 pelican signals were also simultaneously inaugurated in Cyberabad Commissionerate limits today,” he said.

The Commissioner was confident that the Implementation of pelican signals would help the pedestrians in crossing the roads very easily and save them from road accidents. The signals would further help vehicle drivers to avoid road accidents.

“In all 15 to 21 seconds of time will be given to the pedestrians to cross the road. A total of 88 traffic wardens are hired on an outsourcing basis to operate the 44 pelican signals in the limits of Cyberabad Commissionerate and for helping pedestrians cross the road,” the Commissioner said.

The pelican signal wardens would work during the traffic peak hours, from 9 AM to 12 AM and 5 PM to 8 PM. These pelican signals would be operated in crowded places. The volunteers would gather pedestrians into a group and would operate the signal to cross the road. These pelican signal systems were unique and would help reduce or eliminate pedestrian injuries or fatalities while they cross the roads.

Each pelican signal system would have two wardens who were hired through the Safe City Project Team. These volunteers would spend eight hours every day operating these signals and helping pedestrians cross the roads safely. Over time the citizens would get used to operating these systems on their own, and the wardens could be deployed elsewhere.