Despite spending crores to paint the color of traffic on the roads in Gujarat, faded stripes, now yellow boxes of junctions

Gandhinagar, 19 July 2023
Yellow box marking has been made on Panjrapole Char Rasta by the traffic department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. Box marking junctions will be prepared at other 28 traffic junctions in Ahmedabad. Box junction has been constructed in Panjrapole area of Ahmedabad for the first time in the state. The price of one square meter ranges from Rs 350 to Rs 550. While the running meter costs Rs 50.

Although there is a possibility that this price will be kept high. In Ahmedabad and Surat, Rs 100 crore is spent on road marking in a year, but it is not done properly. It wears off in months. Most of the roads do not have such signs. Hence accidents and traffic increase. It works to some extent in 8 metros, but there is no white or yellow stripe in 250 cities.

RTO Circle, Usmanpura, Nehrunagar, Paldi Char Rasta, Ghevar Circle, Raksha Shakti Circle, Namaste Circle, Airport Circle, Golden Qatar, Memco, Rameshwar, Shah Alam, Danilimda, Awagar Hall, Hirabhai Tower, NFD, Prahlad Nagar, Makarba, Marigol Three routes, Anupam, Nikol, Khodiyar Mandir and Viratnagar circles have been selected.

Box Junction was launched 5 years back in 2017 in Bengaluru. This foreign technology has now been implemented to solve the traffic problem in Ahmedabad. After starting in London in 1967, now it is starting in Ahmedabad after 56 years. Which will help in improving the traffic. Although the yellow box in the belt is not removable. If he enters, he will have to pay a heavy fine.

A road sign is a yellow box filled with a yellow grid of diagonal lines drawn on the road. These road signs are called box junctions.
The purpose of traffic control is to prevent deadlock. Traffic is controlled by lights, but not always. It is an offense to enter a yellow box unless the way out is clear. Box must not be entered until the exit road or lane is clear. If there is a queue inside the box, even if the traffic light is green, do not enter until there is time to clear the junction before the traffic light changes.
Boxes with a yellow stripe are pulled where there is heavy traffic, near fire or ambulance stations, where emergency vehicles are operating. The purpose of the box is to keep the junction clear for traffic, preventing traffic jams. The vehicle must cross the junction without stopping at the box. If there is not so much time, then the vehicle has to be stopped at the signal.

Do not chase the vehicle in front, follow the signal. Don’t let other drivers force you into the box either. This would be a heavy fine.

According to the Indian Road Congress Code, breaking the yellow box rule is an offence. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation will fine those who violate the Yellow Box rule. Offenders will be fined for crossing stop lines or jumping traffic lights. Artificial Intelligence program is being prepared for CCTV cameras to be installed in AMC and city traffic police. Vehicle numbers violating the Yellow Box rule will be caught.

Cities like Bengaluru and Mumbai have been fined. The traffic police in India’s IT hub has come up with a fines schedule that will make many people tremble with fear. The latest attempt by the police was in 2017 in Bengaluru. On two wheeler Rs. 500 and for four wheelers Rs. 700 will be fined. It introduced fines for wrong parking (Rs 100), signal jumping (Rs 100) and dangerous and reckless driving (Rs 300/Rs 500 for two-wheelers/four-wheelers) in Bengaluru.

Thermo paint
Thermoplastic road marking paint, also known as hot melt marking paint, is a type of powder paint. When it is applied as markings on the road surface, a hot melt kettle is used to heat it to 200 °C (392 °F), after which it is sprayed onto the road surface. Is. Thermo powder began to be used around the world in the late 1930s.

There are types of thermoplastic powder paints such as polyethylene – polypropylene powder coatings, polyvinyl chloride powder coatings, nylon powder coatings, polytetrafluoroethylene powder coatings and thermoplastic polyester powder coatings. Which is widely used in household items.

Ahmedabad
Thermoplastic paint, cat eye, enamel paint and median markers are applied to comply with the traffic rules. Since the thermoplastic paint is coming out of the bulge, it has been decided to pay 50 percent after checking after one month. Seven years ago, Surya Wall Care Chem Pvt Ltd was awarded a Rs 58 lakh contract to install yellow and white thermoplastic strips on bumps at a cost of 32 per cent less.
1 Crore 36 Lakh in 2022 in West Zone, South Zone and East Zone in Ahmedabad for Thermoplastic Paint, Cat Eye, Enamel Paint and CR. Base road marking paint, road resurfacing work awarded.

SURAT
In 2022, the municipality had painted more than 85 kilometers of cycle tracks in Surat city at a cost of Rs 3 crore. Surat-Kamraj Road, Korat Bridge to Seemada Junction by hot-thermoplastic painting at a cost of Rs.62 Lakh.

It was decided to make a cycle track till Shan-Vanmali Junction. Hot thermoplastic painting was done to make 85 km cycle track in the zone including Athwa, Udhna, Rander, Katargam, Limbayat. More than 12 crores were spent. Two years ago, Rs 15 crore was spent annually on traffic lane marking on the roads. Preparations were made to paint road signs with hot thermoplastic paint on various roads of Katargam at a cost of 1.17 crores.

Harm
Coating hardness, poor strength, poor adhesion, hardens substrate, poor weather resistance, UV stress, prone to cracking; poor resistance to high temperature and poor resistance to moist heat.