Eight months after making the market a one-way stretch, the traffic police will reverse the circulation plan on Monday, following High Court orders.

The one-way traffic plan was introduced last July. But it left a large section of residents and traders unhappy. Result: they filed a petition in High Court and proposed that, instead of circulating clockwise, the traffic should be run anti-clockwise.

The HC bench of Geeta Mittal has directed the traffic police to examine the suggestion and submit a report. The next hearing is slated for February 25.

After considering the suggestions by the RWAs and trader’s association, the traffic police have decided to accept the proposal. “We will circulate pamphlets about the new traffic plan and try to implement it from next Monday,” a senior traffic police officer said.

The RWAs and trader’s association had claimed that one-way traffic plan led to confusion and jams. It also meant massive loss for many traders whose shops were out of the loop, the petition claimed.

As per the earlier plan, traffic from Ring Road was directed from Firoz Gandhi T-point to 3Cs. Traffic from Lala Lajpat Rai Marg, on the other hand, moved towards Veer Savarkar Marg — the main market road.

Commuters from Ring Road would get to the main market road only through the narrow nala service road, which residents claim cannot handle the traffic load.  

Petitioner P P Dawar, 79, former president of the trader’s association, said: “90 percent of traffic entering Central Market comes from Ring Road. With the existing traffic plan it never reaches the main Central Market road, or Veer Savarkar Marg.” As a result, shops on Savarkar Marg suffered “massive losses,” Dawar said. “The circulation plan was biased and was meant to serve interests of a certain part of the market.” Dawar, along with RWAs of I, A, and J blocks had filed the petition.

Advocate Harish Pandey, counsel for the RWAs, said, round-the-clock barricades on the main road meant “more minor accidents and more headache for the residents”.