Squads to put brakes on Bengaluru’s speed demons

By Reya Mehrotra & Iffath Fathima

Traffic cops will keep an eye fixed out at Outer Ring Road, Ballari Road and different wheelie hotspots

In an attempt to clamp down on velocity junkies out at the streets drag racing and acting freewheeling stunts endangering the safety of different motorists, the city visitors police have made up our minds to shape devoted anti-drag racing and wheeling squads. The squads will likely be formed in the coming days and are expected to be deployed alongside stretches adjacent to the Outer Ring Road, Ballari Road and some areas in the CBD.

The initiative was dubbed via Additional Commissioner (Traffic) Harishekaran as a part of the dept’s attempt to reinforce street protection and to carry down deadly injuries in city limits. The city visitors police team of workers held a session on Saturday to elaborate upon its plan to check out and decongest the city streets and reinforce the safety of street customers.

The city visitors police have additionally made up our minds to start out using frame cameras all through drunk drive checks so that they have video proof to make certain that there was no highhandedness from their team of workers and also motorists who are requested to go through the alcometer take a look at. The city visitors police had final yr disbursed around 50 frame cameras to its team of workers particularly in the Central Business District (CBD) along side special training sessions on using them.

The additional commissioner additionally said that once in a while the motorists on the next day to come claim they were not drunk and make different allegations. The complete interaction between the motorists and cops deployed for drunk dive checking along side the alcometer readings will likely be recorded at the frame camera.

“We have about 350 alcometer devices and also a lot of inventory of extra straws. We have issued strict orders the straw used for the check will not be reused and a fresh one will likely be used for the following motorist. Some people refuse to go through the take a look at due to hygiene issues,”” Harishekaaran stated .

The city police have additionally made up our minds to touch both the BBMP and the BMRCL for ensuring that good enough parking zone is allotted for cars at marriage halls and metro stations in the city. It was additionally identified that the final mile connectivity thought of metro will paintings and decongest the streets, if passengers may achieve the station on their two wheelers and park it there and board the metro educate.

The city visitors police even have a venture to extend its adaptive visitors sign lighting fixtures from the prevailing 35 to 353 visitors signals across the city as those signals will likely be fitted with sensors that can sense the visitors quantity accordingly unlike those that function on prefixed timers.