The Dibacle behind the Signals atop at the South Bridge

The other day as I went through references given by @binnyva on the blog sites related to Cochin,Reinventing Cochin was given a thumbs up. I found the blog equally impressive and I found out this interesting case of “The Curious Case of Signals atop the South Bridge”.The author of the blog �said “I fail to conceive a plausible reason for traffic signals, that too 4 of them atop a small bridge.“Though i had dropped in a comment on my guess of what it could be i never saw those things in action to actually say what it was suppose to be.

But today,5′th January,being a day of Bus strike and mayhem with heavy traffic in the city I got lucky to actually see those in action.And yes,they were made for controlling traffic from one side at a time,my guess was right.So I thought I would post this blog removing possible curiosities on what those shiny things are actually for.In fact the traffic lights were inaugrated with a little un noticed fanfare i guess, now that people might have missed �the reports of most of the newspapers on that day, a feature on how the new system ,apart from benefiting commuters, the signal system will bring some relief to policemen who are now posted on either side of the bridge to regulate traffic.

Anyway I found this article from The Hindu,a much official report than my personal experience.

Image�Courtesy:The Hindu

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