Chennai is getting back to normalcy from lockdown and a mountain of cases is evidence that the city is back on the roads in its fashion. Under the tag of being one of the 27 districts in the state to witness a decline in the COVID-19 cases, Chennai has got more relaxations which had made the hibernating city wake up for new relaxations. The relaxations had come to effect earlier this week and as the sequel, the city has seen a rise in the surge in violations of traffic rules. 

According to reports, the Greater Chennai traffic police had booked 11,300 cases of traffic violations for the past two days. Speaking to a news agency, the additional commissioner of police, traffic, said that with the volume of vehicles beginning to increase on the road, the officials had detected more violations by the motorists and the department is intensifying the checks and brought in stricter enforcement. 

The additional commissioner has appealed to the motorists to cooperate with the police and follow both the traffic rules and lockdown guidelines to bring down the violations. The reports say that Chennai police commissioner Shankar Jiwal had made the restrictions stringent from May 18 and the city was divided into 348 sectors and the people were not allowed to move from one police station limits to another without valid reasons during the lockdown. 

The police department had installed 153 checkpoints at the borders of each police station's jurisdiction for strict monitoring. However, after the lifting of lockdown, all the enforcements had gone on-air as the residents had defied the traffic rules. The traffic police had registered 11,300 violations in just two days and most of the violations include defying signals, driving without wearing a helmet, triple riding, and driving without valid licenses. 

Among the overall violations, 90% were for riding without a helmet. As the signals began to operate, the traffic police shifted checkpoints away from the signals to intensify the checks on other motor vehicle act violations including signal and stop-line violations.