The Bengaluru Traffic Police (BTP) and school managements across the city have gotten into a tussle over traffic problems caused by school buses parked on roads near schools.
Over 800 schools have been served notices by the police. While BTP has ordered that schools, which do not have ample parking spaces for their buses as well as parents’ vehicles should hire other spaces for the same, the school authorities say that implementing this will not be feasible.
The notices come in the backdrop of a series of complaints by the public about traffic congestion near school zones, occupation of footpaths by school buses, harassment by school bus drivers, and the threat to the safety of schoolchildren as well as other pedestrians. A lot of people also took to social media to report such problems, especially from around Residency Road.
