Police prepare for traffic paralysis as schools reopen
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Metropolitan Police are devising a strategy to cope with traffic congestion that is expected to be worse than usual when the second semester starts at the end of this month.
Pol Maj General Jirapat Phumjit, acting deputy city police chief, said the planning meeting yesterday heard that the traffic volume caused by parents dropping off and picking up their children at schools would add to the already high volume on roads caused by royal events and infrastructure projects.
Jirapat instructed traffic police to liaison with schools in their precincts while watching for any traffic issues or accidents so that they can be dealt with quickly.
Traffic police must be at their stations at 5am and 3pm for the morning and evening rush hours, with city officials and volunteers backing them up on secondary roads.
Traffic law offenders would be arrested and their cars towed away, he warned.
