Will Tokyo model ease traffic jams?

The trillion-dirham question is whether the Tokyo model will work for Dubai.

The coming days will reveal what aces the police have up their sleeve to ease the traffic congestions to which we had become resigned over the years even as the city modernised keeping pace with the world.

The traffic police are going to feel the real pressure during the peak hours and how they stagger the movement of vehicles to prevent jams is to be seen.

One sure way of managing traffic is to ensure mass transportation of employees and pooling of cars to reduce the number of vehicles on the roads. Most officers and corporate head honchos prefer to cruise in their own vehicles and little, it seems, can be done about this. In this scenario, the need of the day is innovative traffic management. No doubt the authorities will have chalked out an action plan to tackle the traffic load.

Indeed, some of the traffic problems have already come to the notice of the police with roads during the last two weeks steadily witnessing a rise in traffic as expatriates returned from holidays to resume work and Asian schools reopened after the summer hiatus.