According to all-India data, the vehicular population in India has been growing at a faster pace of over 14 per cent annually. The case of Itanagar is no different as the people, due to lack of a faster transportation mode, has been depending upon their own vehicles, two wheelers and four wheelers. People here may not have a proper house but sure to have a four wheeler. However, the question is have our roads increased proportionate to the vehicular population? The answer is a big no.  Again the SWOT analysis says that average speed of a vehicle moving on NH 415  is 15 km per hour.

Now even that speed has been reduced drastically as four-laning of the NH 415 is underway. The road will take more time to complete construction as adverse weather conditions give hardly four to five months for construction activities. At the same time, Itanagar is slowly growing into an educational hub with medical college, homeo college, NERIST, Rajiv Gandhi University and with many more in the line up, the vehicular population is bound to increase by leaps and bounds. And take the floating population, which the Government estimates at about 1.30 lakhs every month. Thus the traffic system in the Capital Complex will be under severe stress. We need smart traffic policement to control the system, then proper traffic islands and automatic signalling system.