LUCKNOW, Aug. 9 -- The traffic police in the city have gone beyond counting vehicles to mapping the road itself, pinpointing 153 locations where cuts, U-turns, service lanes, parking stretches or entry and exit points could be contributing to congestion and safety risks on the Polytechnic-Chinhat corridor.

The exercise is part of a wider traffic-improvement plan for the Ayodhya Road corridor being undertaken in compliance with directions of the Allahabad high court. DCP (traffic) Raveena Tyagi said each of the 153 points had been separately documented and georeferenced using latitude and longitude coordinates, creating a location-specific blueprint for proposed interventions.

"Over the past week, traffic police teams conducted a detaile...