Accident: Short-term measures in place, but long-term steps key to lasting solution
The slow pace of long-term remedial measures at the accident spot near Pune's bridge - where a truck rammed into several vehicles on Sunday - continues to put the life of citizens at risk.
The gradual tempo of long-time period remedial measures on the coincidence spot close to Pune's Naval bridge - in which a truck rammed into numerous motors on Sunday - keeps placing the lifestyles of residents at risk. At least six humans have been injured and 24 motors broken with inside the coincidence, all over again, bringing cognizance to the stretch that's a part of the Bangalore-Mumbai bypass. In the past, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), at the side of the country authorities and the National Highway Authority of India (THAI), had studied the stretch and recognized numerous short-time period and long-time period measures to scale down accidents. Though the maximum of the short-time period measures has been completed with the aid of using the THAI, town police, and the civic frame, the vicinity nevertheless keeps staying coincidence-prone.
They have a look at, particularly the steep slope at the 3. 5 km stretch from the new Kara Tunnel to the Naval bridge. The corporations agreed that controlling the rate of motors is important in decreasing accidents. Accordingly, the PMC established ramblers, whilst punctures at the dual carriageway (gaps to pass roads) have been eliminated, and the provider avenue became widened. The town police additionally established velocity weapons and started levying fines for lane-slicing and crossing the rate restriction at the stretch. Among the long-time period measures recommended became the concept to assemble a brand-new bridge to attach the Naval bridge and the Wagon bridge. Former mayor Sridhar Moho and neighborhood MP Supriya Sure took up the difficulty with Union roads and highways minister Nitin Gadara who directed the THAI to take in the essential work.3-d thermoplastics have been established on the roads for higher visibility at night, no parking became delivered at the dual carriageway main to the Sahara from Naval bridge to Darius, and streetlights placed up in parish areas. Officers stated records forums could be made larger and bolder, whilst encroachments on provider roads could be eliminated immediately. According to the government, except for the slope of the stretch, overspending on heavy motors became the main cause of accidents. V G Kulhari, lead engineer and in-rate of the PMC's roads department, stated: 'We are doing a website go-to with THAI officers today (Monday) and discussing in addition steps to remedy the scenario at Naval bridge.' All the measures are being applied with the aid of using the THAI and the civic frame is operating with them, he added. Civic activist Vivek Velankar stated it became an excessive time that officials of the worried departments of the THAI, country authorities, PMC, and the police took the difficulty critically. 'They handiest come collectively after a coincidence, however, do now no longer critically take steps to solve the difficulty,' Velankar pointed out, including that the government needs to additionally rope in a personal expert.
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