Traffic police officers have been withdrawn from busy intersections in Kampala after criticism that they were contributing to the heavy traffic jams in the city.
Today traffic officers have been withdrawn from manning traffic at junctions with traffic lights. The order comes after KCCA criticized the traffic police for contributing to traffic jams by deploying officers at junctions with traffic lights.
Steven Kasiima, the director of Traffic and safety in the Uganda Police Force, says the traffic officers at the busy intersections with traffic lights will be withdrawn for two days to see whether the traffic flows better without traffic officers.
Kasiima says its hard to manage traffic lights without traffic officers in the city because KCCA does not have a traffic command control centre to monitor the traffic burden.
As the Kampala Capital City Authority continues to assert its mandate to manage the city’s traffic problem, road users wait to see how the new changes will drastically reduce the traffic burden and lessen time spent on the road.