Mumbai Traffic Police — Poor traffic management

Address:Mumbai City, Maharashtra, 400053
Website:Trafficpolicemumbai.maharashtra.gov.in

Mumbai traffic police seems to be doing nothing about the traffic jams piling up in the city than stand at signals and fine offenders. What is being done for our help or convenience?
I am a regular commuter from Vikhroli to Jogeshwari. It takes me 1 hour 30 minutes to cover this distance of 17 kms starting at 6 pm from office to home. I am Delhi based and can clearly point the voids in Mumbai traffic management which makes it so infamous for its traffic.
Mumbai city has narrower roads and a proper traffic management is the need of hour now. Spending hours in traffic jams and losing double the amount of petrol specially when petrol is so expensive in this city is totally not affordable. 7.5 million commuters take the Mumbai local train daily (source- india.com), yet an enormous amount of traffic on the roads? If more than half the population takes local then the roads should have been empty! Here are reasons why Mumbai roads fail to accommodate traffic:
1. Bus stops have been built minimum 10 metres near the traffic signals. When everyone heads on the green signal, of them 'The Bus' stops at the bus stop. All the vehicles
behind bus are obstructed and stuck at the intersection, meanwhile, another signal turns green resulting in congestion. Eg- Vikhroli to Jogeshwari link road's last signal at the western express highway- bus stop is built 50 metres near such a major signal, accompanied by bumpy broken road, allowing minimum traffic to pass their green light.
2. Vehicles are parked anywhere on any roadside, leaving such narrow space for moving traffic who are being fined for tiniest offences but NOT THEM (parked stationary vehicles).
3. Pedestrians cross the roads at traffic's green signal, risking their lives in between the speeding cars, are NOT BEING FINED. Whereas, if we happen to cross pedestrian's green signal, we are fined heavily. Are we only responsible for their death?
4. No dedicated lanes or diversions for bus stops.
5. Commercial vehicles are allowed to move through the city anytime in the day. Depending on vehicle size, should be only permitted to move at mid night.
6. The narrowest road of my journey- Behram Baugh road. It cannot even accommodate 2 wheelers, how are even heavy vehicles allowed to pass through this area? This road should restrain them by height allowance! The level of annoyance caused when other vehicles are stuck behind them on a one lane road, accompanied by careless roadside drays is indescribable.
7. Metro is being built over the narrowest place - Behram Baugh again. Is it going to solve the problem or increase it?
8. Open spaces between the road dividers where the road divider should have continued- allowing anyone from the other side to take u-turns or overhaul the usual direction of the traffic. These gaps should be only at spacious areas which can accommodate merging traffic, than be at every 100m intervals! This causes so much irregularity!
Everyday my biggest fear is to not face red areas on Maps but Mumbai is all red !
Request you to please take action on above concerns which are not only mine but everyone's. Mumbai cannot even save the life of a dying person struggling to reach the hospital in the ambulance. Think about it!
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