And so after the police department prepared a computerised data on all vehicles and their owners within 30 days, speedsters would find it difficult to escape as their vehicle number would ensure that the keepers of the law would get to them eventually.

Or so, Police Commissioner Kuldeep Sharma claimed at the Road Safety Council meeting on Tuesday, adding that the arrangement would also help arrest people involved in road accidents.

Some of the important decision taken at the meeting included reducing the time by an hour during which luxury buses were allowed in the city limits. All the buses would enter between 9 pm and 8 am and those violating the directive would be seized, Sharma added.

In a bid to reduce traffic congestion around the Surat railway station, the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation was asked to make some adjustments on the bus routes. Accordingly, buses coming from Sarthana Octroi Post will be taken to GSRTC workshop after passing via Geetanjali crossroads and old Varachha Police Station.

Buses coming from Puna-Kumbharia road will also be taken to GSRTC workshop via Anil Dyeing Circle to Bombay Market. While the changes were suggested to the GSRTC divisional controller, the corporation was asked to maintain the central stand and various stations in a better way.

Taking into account the plight of elderly people who found it difficult to get into buses due to the rush, the meeting decided to deploy policemen at the central bus stand to ensure that passengers stand in queue and maintain order. The hindrance to traffic by buses parked near the Linear Bus Stand was also taken up at the meeting.

It was also decided to seize school autorickshaws carrying more than nine children, if they were found erring for the second time. The permit of drivers would also be cancelled.

According to J K Shah of Surat Municipal Corporation, traffic signals were working at 70 traffic junctions and they would shortly be installed at 13 new junctions, including Ramnagar, Circuit House, Ambikaniketan, Timliawad, Athwagate and Delhi Gate.

As traffic rules were always followed in breach on the three-and-a-half-kms-long Varachha road, Sharma directed policemen to deal with them strictly. Describing the airhorns `illegal', including those installed in GSRTC buses, the corporation was asked to remove it.

While Regional Transport Officer K M Patel said that autorickshaws running on adulterated fuel were being seized for 30 to 45 days, Sharma said that three-wheelers should ply on meter if customers insisted on it.

Additional Police Commissioner H P Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police I M Desai, Additional Police Commissioner C J Rathod, and GSRTC Division Controller Nanubhai Patel were among those who attended the meeting and took part in the discussion.