PSCA installs LEDs to guide commuters

LAHORE: Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA) installed LED screens displaying messages about traffic rules and alerts on major roads to guide commuters. PSCA Chief Operating Officer Akbar Nasir Khan told APP on Wednesday that the initiative has proved to be instrumental in reducing accidents significantly besides declining crime rate by 60%. The authority, he added, was also planning to expand its scope to nine other cities, including Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Bahawalpur, Multan, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Nankana Sahib, Sheikhupura and Kasur. “The city traffic was being monitored continuously through 8,000 high-tech cameras with features of rotate, night vision, readability and face recognition. These cameras were connected with Asia’s biggest wall of video installed at Punjab Police Integrated Command Control and Communication Centre.” To a question, he said that following the Lahore High Court orders, the PSCA and City Traffic Police (CTP) had also been collaborating in issuance of e-ticketing to commuters over violating traffic rules. “So far, more than one million e-tickets worth Rs130 million have been issued to traffic violators.”

Published in The Express Tribune, September 26^th, 2019.