Cross River Tackles Traffic Obstruction

Cross State government has launched “Operation Clear Well” to bring sanity to its roads.

Under the campaign targeted against the obstruction of free flow of traffic along the streets of Calabar metropolis, motorists who obstruct traffic flow while picking and dropping passengers without parking well will have their vehicles impounded by the state taskforce on traffic monitoring/regulation.

Such vehicles would only be released after fines are paid by the offending motorists. The campaign is being spearheaded by the state Ministry of Transportation.

The commissioner for Transportation, Pastor Ekpeyong Cobham disclosed this when he answered questions from journalists at the end of a brainstorming session with stakeholders in the transport sector in Calabar, yesterday.

He said, “Drivers must clear their vehicles well each time they stopped to pick passengers on the street to avoid obstructing the flow of traffic. Clear well, so that you don’t obstruct other mAotorists plying same road with you so that you won’t obstruct other road users from going about their day’s businesses.

“Clear well is a slogan and concept which as a government, we intend to take to next level in consideration with the different challenges we are faced with in the sector.

“A total reorientation and mindset of the drivers is very necessary. They need to be conscious on the fact that, if you want to pick a passenger just clear well.  You want to drop a passenger just clear well. This can lead us to other milestones that we wish to archive.

“The system as it is today, calls for absolute reorientation. Some of these drivers did not attend basic driving school and all of that. We discover that all of these challenges, are a stop gap measure that can arrest this case,” he said.