SHILLONG: The State Planning Board on Wednesday discussed at length about the growing menace of traffic snarls in the city.
Speaking to media persons after the meeting, Planning Board chairman Lambor Malngiang said the board has asked the departments concerned to take measures to control traffic, besides looking at the option to construct link roads in and around the town.
He said there is a proposal to construct a road from Eastern Air Command in 7th Mile towards Shillong View Point even as he informed that the department is just awaiting approval from the Forest and Environment Department.
According to Malngiang, there are proposals to construct link roads from Laitkor to Laitlyngkot, Umlyngka to Cantonment area and Sawlad to Umpling.
When asked mere discussions are taking place on easing traffic jam, he said the government is serious about easing the traffic problem in the city “for once and for all” and hence several proposals for the roads are in the pipeline.
