Chandigarh: Residents raise issue with timers of traffic lights due to LED installation

At around 40 intersections in Chandigarh, where traffic lights are being upgraded to LED lights, their timers have not been functioning properly, according to residents. The timers indicate how many seconds are left before the light turns green, and if they malfunction, it can lead to mishaps, as per road safety experts.

Madan Gupta Spatu, senior executive member of the Second Innings Association, said, “Even though traffic monitoring systems will be put up under the Smart City Project to intelligently control traffic, right now even the digital clock installed earlier on traffic lights have stopped working. When the light turns from green to red without any warning, people who stop their vehicle are in danger of being hit by the vehicle behind them.”