president of the sector 18 market association said in a recent meeting with the noida authority they asked the officials to remove the roadside encroachers we also asked them to construct a fob to facilitate pedestrian crossovers between the two crucial markets he saidbetween sectors 16 and 15 there are heavy encroachments along the road including arbitrarily parked taxis and autos and eateries traffic movement in the area is also chequered due to the presence of stray cattle on the road these stray cattle sometimes injure commuters the animals sit in the middle of the road and lead to traffic jams too noida authority should shift them to shelter home suman kumar a noida resident saidauto and taxi drivers meanwhile complain about the absence of dedicated parking spaces for them near the metro stations there is no parking space near metro stations in sector 16 18 and 15 hence the drivers are forced to park their vehicles under the metro stations to pick up and drop off passengers this adds to pressure on the already congested road raju kumar an auto driver said traffic congestion on the other side of the routefrom noida sector 15 towards the botanic gardenis as acute traffic from udyog marg and captain vijayant thapar marg merge at the sector 15 intersection triggering heavy jams in the area during peak hours to ease it noida traffic police diverted traffic coming from sector 6 to film city road towards sector 15 metro station this to some extent eases the problem but sporadic deployment of cops leads to severe traffic violations herethe illegal extensions by shops besides roadside vendors and carts near the atta market especially along the metro line chock the roads leaving just a ribbonlike space for motorists as per an estimate there are 15 bike and car repair shops in sectors 28 and 29 which are parallel to captain vijayant thapar while these shops cater to hundreds of customers each day they allow customers to park their vehicles on the road in the absence of parking spacemonitored through cctv cameras installed under the itms programme around 500 challans were issued to violators in the area last month police personnel however are not physically present here to instil a sense of discipline among the peopleanil kumar yadav deputy commissioner of police traffic gautam budh nagar said that the traffic police will soon conduct an antiencroachment drive on the stretch we will coordinate with the noida authority and conduct a drive from botanic garden to sector 15 and clear encroachments we will also deploy traffic personnel he saidnoida osd indu prakash singh told toi that several enforcement drives have been conducted outside atta market in the past but the vendors return to occupy the roadside and footpaths as soon as the civic teams are gone we will conduct an enforcement drive and clear the encroachment on the route as far as a fob is concerned there is a metro line on that route and there is insufficient