The Valley Traffic Police Office has launched a plan to facilitate smooth flow of traffic in the Valley.

The plans include a plethora of bicycle patrols, traffic assistance hotline, SMS to the traffic control room facility, softer treatment of cabbies and an all-woman cops traffic post in the heart of the capital.

Speaking at a programme organised here by the VTPO, senior Superintendent of Police at the Valley Traffic Police Office (VTPO) Bhishma Prasai said the Valley Traffic would be part of the Metropolitan Police System if it is implemented.

The traffic police would now have a three-digit hotline in their mini-control room so that people can feel free and easy to inform them if traffic problems occur anywhere in the Valley.

“The hotline will help make the traffic controlling system effective,” he said, adding that the new system would be installed within three weeks.

Under the plan, the Traffic Police Office is mulling installing SMS system in the Valley Traffic System, in coordination with Nepal Telecom (NT).

Prasai said the VTPO would intensify bicycle patrolling in the Valley. “We will deploy 23 bicycle-borne traffic police personnel. The colour of their bicycles will be white, with the logo ‘Valley Traffic Police’ so that people can easily notice the movement of traffic police,” he added.

Prasai further said that he had directed all traffic police personnel to avoid seizing vehicles provided that there was no serious circumstance.