While the law-enforcing agency is going every extra mile possible to streamline traffic in the city, the location of bus stops, especially those close to traffic signals and road-junctions, is playing spoilsport.

Traffic management in any growing urban ambience is governed by three `E's - Education, Enforcement and Engineering. Focussing merely on education and enforcement has not yielded the desired result and there is a lot that needs to be done in engineering in terms of planning the location of bus stops.

Location of a bus stop ahead of a traffic signal and a road junction results in the entire traffic behind getting blocked. At such traffic signals, when there is a green signal the drivers tend to skip the bus stops and stop only after crossing the signal. This causes inconvenience to passengers waiting at such bus stops. This has also given room for a `culture' wherein the passengers tend to board and get down from buses at traffic signals resulting in accidents. To save time and get through the signal, the bus crew promotes this `culture'.

In such bus stops when more than two buses halt at the same time, the entire traffic behind gets blocked.

Some of the problematic bus stops are located at:

• Lawley Road Junction
• Sai Baba Colony - Sivananda Colony Junction on Mettuppalayam Road
• LIC Signal
• UMS Signal
• Lakshmi Mills Junction
• Hopes College Signal
• Uppilipalayam and Gandhipuram.

Only in a very few places such as Nanjappa Road and Nellai Lala Junction on Raja Street, the authorities have got them relocated.