NEW DELHI: Concerned over the risk of two-wheelers plying illegally on expressways, a parliamentary panel has advisable the highways ministry to imagine levying consequences on such violators “using automated systems”.
The parliamentary status committee on delivery, tourism and tradition has made this advice amid cases of the way a lot of two-wheelers and sluggish shifting automobiles are getting into the expressways and access-controlled highways at the same time as those are prohibited on those high-speed corridors for For safety causes.
The committee took word of the way two-wheelers made up for roughly 41% of all highway crash fatalities in 2021. “The committee feels that road safety awareness campaigns promoting the usage of helmets would go a long way in saving the lives of two-wheelers drivers. The ministry may consider levying penalties for two-wheelers plying on expressways using automated systems to improve effective enforcement,” the panel said in its latest report submitted to the parliament.
The panel has also recommended the ministry to ensure proper signage, safety grills on dividers and boundaries, and lighting of highways in coordination with the departments concerned. “The ministry may ensure that high mast lights are installed at all junctions on NHs across the country,” it said.
The committee has referred to the observation of the United States Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), which found that variable speed limits reduce up to 34% of crashes on freeways. It has recommended to the highways ministry and NHAI to analyze the feasibility of variable speed limits on NHs in India on a pilot basis “since speed limits should also factor in constantly varying factors such as traffic congestion and visibility”.
Meanwhile, in a contemporary letter addressed to Union highway delivery minister, Nitin Gadkari, Road Safety Network — a coalition of organizations running in highway protection — has steered the federal government to scale back the prescribed prison velocity limits to “more secure ranges.” It mentioned addressing this unmarried behavioral possibility issue of ‘velocity’ will lend a hand in instantly lowering the choice of deaths significantly.
It has referred to the federal government experiences of the way round 70% of the entire deaths in highway crashes in 2021 have been because of dashing. The ministry has raised the velocity limits on expressways to 120 kmph for vehicles and on NHs, it is 100 kmph. The minister has additionally spoken concerning the possibility of additional revision of velocity limits on NHs and expressways.
The parliamentary status committee on delivery, tourism and tradition has made this advice amid cases of the way a lot of two-wheelers and sluggish shifting automobiles are getting into the expressways and access-controlled highways at the same time as those are prohibited on those high-speed corridors for For safety causes.
The committee took word of the way two-wheelers made up for roughly 41% of all highway crash fatalities in 2021. “The committee feels that road safety awareness campaigns promoting the usage of helmets would go a long way in saving the lives of two-wheelers drivers. The ministry may consider levying penalties for two-wheelers plying on expressways using automated systems to improve effective enforcement,” the panel said in its latest report submitted to the parliament.
The panel has also recommended the ministry to ensure proper signage, safety grills on dividers and boundaries, and lighting of highways in coordination with the departments concerned. “The ministry may ensure that high mast lights are installed at all junctions on NHs across the country,” it said.
The committee has referred to the observation of the United States Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), which found that variable speed limits reduce up to 34% of crashes on freeways. It has recommended to the highways ministry and NHAI to analyze the feasibility of variable speed limits on NHs in India on a pilot basis “since speed limits should also factor in constantly varying factors such as traffic congestion and visibility”.
Meanwhile, in a contemporary letter addressed to Union highway delivery minister, Nitin Gadkari, Road Safety Network — a coalition of organizations running in highway protection — has steered the federal government to scale back the prescribed prison velocity limits to “more secure ranges.” It mentioned addressing this unmarried behavioral possibility issue of ‘velocity’ will lend a hand in instantly lowering the choice of deaths significantly.
It has referred to the federal government experiences of the way round 70% of the entire deaths in highway crashes in 2021 have been because of dashing. The ministry has raised the velocity limits on expressways to 120 kmph for vehicles and on NHs, it is 100 kmph. The minister has additionally spoken concerning the possibility of additional revision of velocity limits on NHs and expressways.
