By Reya Mehrotra
No-honking crusader is spreading the phrase via stickers
If you have been a Martian who had just landed inBengaluru , you could be resulted in consider that honking is what makes a automobile move and no longer its engine. That’s how dangerous the noise ranges are in Bengaluru. With roads all choked up with site visitors, some drivers don’t take their palms off the horn.
Bangalore Mirror had launched a marketing campaign in July 2016 to make other people aware about No Honking , and Bharathi Athinarayanan , was once one of the crucial few other people from Bengaluru who was once impressed to follow it to the T. The techie, whose spouse had brought the marketing campaign to his understand, travelled all the approach to his native village near Coimbatore in 2016 and didn’t honk even once. From there he went to Kerala to look at the boat race and didn’t use the horn even once.
Now Bharathi Athinarayanan has moved on from strength of mind to discouraging other people from honking. Weaving in between cars on crowded roads, Athinarayanan sticks labels on vehicles and two wheelers to discourage them from honking. He has many stickers in his arsenal. ‘No Honking, No Dinging, No Poinging, No Buzzing, No Ringing, No Hooting, No Binging and NO Boinging’ says one whilst some other has a No Honking signal. While one says, ‘Horn Not Okay Please’, some other says ‘Quiet Please’ whilst yet some other says ‘No Honking Unless for Danger’.
Authorities had been trying to take care of the sound air pollution brought about by means of unnecessary honking with many campaigns. The police had launched No Honking Mondays to inspire other people to start out the week with much less noise however the marketing campaign fell on deaf years. Even the badges that the cops wore, Don’t Be Horny’ did not elicit a response.
The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board says sound ranges must no longer exceed 84 decibels (db) however the Regional Transport Office found that sound horns have been as loud as 135 db. Hearing damage can occur at 90 db and complete hearing loss at 120 db. In 2015, the RTO had carried out a 40-day marketing campaign to deliver awareness about no honking and seized 12,000 cars whose sound horns exceeded permissible limits.
Implementing the no honking initiative becomes tricky, say government, in the absence of meters to measure the decibel ranges on the roads.
Athinarayanan, a essential engineer at American Telephone and Telegraph Company, has been following the No Honking rule since two years and now wants to spread the message to others. His sticker distribution pressure which he started earlier this 12 months, was once intended to make other people follow No Honking as a courtesy. Says Athinarayanan, “I were given 40 stickers printed and dispensed them to my buddies and commuters. Since I stay in HSR Layout, I also dispensed the ‘No Honking’ stickers to commuters at site visitors alerts. They have been curious to grasp what this was once about and thought I used to be from the site visitors police department. I explained to them in regards to the need to forestall honking. They have been satisfied to flaunt the stickers on their cars and promised me that they might follow the same. I am satisfied that I'm able to make some distinction to society.” Athinarayanan’s sticker initiative is self-funded and he has designed and created five other kinds of stickers.
The first lot is over and he plans to reprint some other batch.
Inspired by means of Athinarayanan, his friend, Srihari Narsimhan, too gave up honking two years ago. Now he too flaunts a ‘No Honking’ sticker that was once proficient to him by means of his friend and spreads the message around the town.
15000 kms without honking
Athinarayanan owns four cars and claims that he has already travelled 10,500 km on his Bullet motorcycle and 15,000 km in his jeep, without honking. All his cars have ‘no honking’ stickers on them.
In 2017, Bangalore Mirror had reported about him finishing 3000 kilometres without honking, after being impressed by means of BM’s marketing campaign.
Talking to BM about his journey, he says, “Initially I started by means of surroundings small information for myself of 250, 500, 1000 after which 3000 and 6000 kilometres, without honking. ” He also conducts workshops for children in schools and educates them about how honking provides stress to our already-hassled lives. He has now travelled 10,500 km on his bullet without honking throughout the town and 15,000 km in his jeep to Rameswaram and Kolar, without honking. His spouse has been following the No Honking rule too.
Think all through site visitors jams
When asked how he manages to stick calm without honking when there are dangerous drivers throughout, he says, “I perceive everyone is in a rush to achieve someplace and a driver has to appreciate that. I stay calm. It’s only a topic of one-two minutes and the best way clears. I placed on my headphones and song lifts my mood immediately. During site visitors jams, especially all through peak hours, I use the time to take into accounts interesting and artistic concepts fairly than honking or getting impatient. Most of my interesting work concepts come all through site visitors jams.” He says essentially the most difficult stretches in the town the place it almost not possible not to honk are Iblur Junction, Marathahalli Junction, the flyover near RMZ Eco Space at ORR and at Harlur Junction.
Recently, Athinarayanan had to honk once when a college bus driver was once driving recklessly and did not understand his car coming from the opposite direction. Says Athinarayanan, “Since it was once a college bus, I honked. It was once a query of safety of many faculty children.”
No-honking crusader is spreading the phrase via stickers
If you have been a Martian who had just landed in
Now Bharathi Athinarayanan has moved on from strength of mind to discouraging other people from honking. Weaving in between cars on crowded roads, Athinarayanan sticks labels on vehicles and two wheelers to discourage them from honking. He has many stickers in his arsenal. ‘No Honking, No Dinging, No Poinging, No Buzzing, No Ringing, No Hooting, No Binging and NO Boinging’ says one whilst some other has a No Honking signal. While one says, ‘Horn Not Okay Please’, some other says ‘Quiet Please’ whilst yet some other says ‘No Honking Unless for Danger’.
Authorities had been trying to take care of the sound air pollution brought about by means of unnecessary honking with many campaigns. The police had launched No Honking Mondays to inspire other people to start out the week with much less noise however the marketing campaign fell on deaf years. Even the badges that the cops wore, Don’t Be Horny’ did not elicit a response.
During site visitors jams, especially all through peak hours, I use the time to assume. Most of my interesting work concepts come all through site visitors jams
The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board says sound ranges must no longer exceed 84 decibels (db) however the Regional Transport Office found that sound horns have been as loud as 135 db. Hearing damage can occur at 90 db and complete hearing loss at 120 db. In 2015, the RTO had carried out a 40-day marketing campaign to deliver awareness about no honking and seized 12,000 cars whose sound horns exceeded permissible limits.
Implementing the no honking initiative becomes tricky, say government, in the absence of meters to measure the decibel ranges on the roads.
Athinarayanan, a essential engineer at American Telephone and Telegraph Company, has been following the No Honking rule since two years and now wants to spread the message to others. His sticker distribution pressure which he started earlier this 12 months, was once intended to make other people follow No Honking as a courtesy. Says Athinarayanan, “I were given 40 stickers printed and dispensed them to my buddies and commuters. Since I stay in HSR Layout, I also dispensed the ‘No Honking’ stickers to commuters at site visitors alerts. They have been curious to grasp what this was once about and thought I used to be from the site visitors police department. I explained to them in regards to the need to forestall honking. They have been satisfied to flaunt the stickers on their cars and promised me that they might follow the same. I am satisfied that I'm able to make some distinction to society.” Athinarayanan’s sticker initiative is self-funded and he has designed and created five other kinds of stickers.
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The first lot is over and he plans to reprint some other batch.
Inspired by means of Athinarayanan, his friend, Srihari Narsimhan, too gave up honking two years ago. Now he too flaunts a ‘No Honking’ sticker that was once proficient to him by means of his friend and spreads the message around the town.
15000 kms without honking
Athinarayanan owns four cars and claims that he has already travelled 10,500 km on his Bullet motorcycle and 15,000 km in his jeep, without honking. All his cars have ‘no honking’ stickers on them.
In 2017, Bangalore Mirror had reported about him finishing 3000 kilometres without honking, after being impressed by means of BM’s marketing campaign.
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Talking to BM about his journey, he says, “Initially I started by means of surroundings small information for myself of 250, 500, 1000 after which 3000 and 6000 kilometres, without honking. ” He also conducts workshops for children in schools and educates them about how honking provides stress to our already-hassled lives. He has now travelled 10,500 km on his bullet without honking throughout the town and 15,000 km in his jeep to Rameswaram and Kolar, without honking. His spouse has been following the No Honking rule too.
Think all through site visitors jams
When asked how he manages to stick calm without honking when there are dangerous drivers throughout, he says, “I perceive everyone is in a rush to achieve someplace and a driver has to appreciate that. I stay calm. It’s only a topic of one-two minutes and the best way clears. I placed on my headphones and song lifts my mood immediately. During site visitors jams, especially all through peak hours, I use the time to take into accounts interesting and artistic concepts fairly than honking or getting impatient. Most of my interesting work concepts come all through site visitors jams.” He says essentially the most difficult stretches in the town the place it almost not possible not to honk are Iblur Junction, Marathahalli Junction, the flyover near RMZ Eco Space at ORR and at Harlur Junction.
Recently, Athinarayanan had to honk once when a college bus driver was once driving recklessly and did not understand his car coming from the opposite direction. Says Athinarayanan, “Since it was once a college bus, I honked. It was once a query of safety of many faculty children.”
This man has covered 50k km without honking
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