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| Govt failed to ensure commuters' safety: HC |
6-laning of Kharar-Kiratpur Sahib stretch incomplete
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today ruled that the government has failed in its duty to ensure safety of commuters by not completing the work pertaining to six-laning of the killer Kharar-Kiratpur Sahib stretch on time. The assertion followed suo-motu cognisance of a news report |
| 07/08/2010 | Read More.. |
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| Subways, overbridge to ease traffic congestion |
Centre sanctions Rs 15 cr under JNNURM
The proposed subways along Dakshin Marg, Madhya Marg and other roads and an overbridge aimed at tackling the increasing traffic problem on city roads is soon going to be a reality as the Central government has sanctioned Rs 15 crore for the same under the Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). |
| 17/07/2010 | Read More.. |
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| Posts Tagged 'Road-Safety-in-India' |
Accidents are such a common occurrence on Indian roads. About 1.2 lakh people die and 5.2 lakh people get injured every year in road accidents in India. But this is all going to change. One of the most effective ways of controlling this is to ensure the road worthiness of vehicles, including non transport vehicles. This one step can prove to be pivotal in taking road safety in India to a higher level.
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| 17/05/2010 | Read More.. |
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| Kenya leads region in death- report |
A global status report on road safety has revealed that Kenya suffers the highest number of road fatalities in East Africa.
Out of a sample of one million registered vehicles, the country recorded 3,760 traffic deaths last year, compared with Uganda that recorded 2,838 deaths from a sample of 363,000 vehicles.
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| 22/04/2010 | Read More.. |
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| Score one for the bikes Pilot bike lane project will close two lanes on University Ave. |
Cyclists make their way north on University Ave. using the right shoulder. Toronto's summer bike lane pilot project will put bikes in the left lane of University Ave..
In a plan that gladdens the hearts of cycling advocates — and mayoral hopeful Rocco Rossi calls "sheer madness" — city hall is looking at building European-style bike lanes along University Ave. this summer.
The three-month pilot project will see two lanes — one northbound, one southbound —–removed from Richmond St. W. to Wellesley St. W./Hoskin Ave. Cyclists will get their own lane alongside the inner median, separated from motorized traffic by a metre-wide buffer and solid dividing posts.
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| 13/04/2010 | Read More.. |
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| Stress taking toll on CTU drivers |
The Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU), dubbed as one of the best transport undertakings in the country, is oblivious of the health problems being faced by its staff.
e employees of the CTU lost their lives due ailments, particularly heart failure, or accidents on duty. |
| 12/04/2010 | Read More.. |
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| Pehla Qadam film by Eicher Trucks and Buses on road safety bags top honour |
| The Global Film Festival on Road Safety -2010 was held in Morocco, very recently. Conducted by LASER Europe,the festival was inaugurated by Karim Ghellab, Morocco's Minister of Transport. 50 films from as many as 27 countries were screened at these awards. A film on road-safety for Children, "Pehla Qadam – Safe Roads, Safe Kids" produced by the customer-service team at 'Eicher Trucks and Buses' received the first (and only) prize in the education category. |
| 08/04/2010 | Read More.. |
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| Global Helmet Vaccine Initiative head visits Nigeria |
The Chief Executive Officer of the Global Helmet Vaccine Initiative Helmet Vaccine Initiative (GHVI), Greig Craft, has arrived Nigeria to discuss with various government officials and road safety stakeholders the possibility of implementing the Global Helmet Vaccine Initiative in Nigeria..
Craft who arrived Abuja on Saturday, March 6, came at the behest of PATVORA, a road safety NGO in Nigeria that is committed to this Initiative.
"The Global Helmet Vaccine Initiative represents a milestone opportunity for Nigeria and its roads," stated Chude Ojugbana of PATVORA, "We are delighted to support Mr. Craft and the GHVI team in Nigeria; we are all here to save lives, and helmets are a vaccine against the preventable tragedy of road traffic crash deaths and serious injury."
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| 14/03/2010 | Read More.. |
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| UN declares Decade of Road Safety |
To curb the shocking 1.3 million deaths from road traffic crashes a year, the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday proclaimed the period from 2011 to 2020 as the Decade of Action for Road Safety.
According to a news release from the UN office here, the proclamation seeks to spur national and global efforts to halt or reverse the increasing trend in road traffic deaths and injuries around the world.
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| 05/03/2010 | Read More.. |
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| UN proclaims decade of action for road safety |
To spur national and global efforts to prevent traffic deaths, the UN General Assembly has proclaimed the period 2011 to 2020 as the Decade of Action for Road Safety.
In a resolution adopted Tuesday, the 192-member body also requested the WHO, in cooperation with other partners, to prepare a plan of action to guide efforts during the Decade.
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| 05/03/2010 | Read More.. |
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| VVIP movement must not hit traffic: SC |
The Supreme Court today shot down a proposal for airlifting patients to hospitals, observing that it was not advisable in the light of the recent helicopter accident involving President Pratibha Devisingh Patil.
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| 17/12/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Himachal mulling GPS in buses to reduce accidents |
The Himachal Pradesh government is considering installation of global positioning system (GPS) in the state-run and private buses to reduce the rate of road accidents in the state, Transport Minister Mohinder Singh said Monday.
'We are mulling to install GPS in the state-run and private buses,' Singh told the state assembly.
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| 14/12/2009 | Read More.. |
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| 2-hr traffic jam as bus breaks down |
| -hr traffic jam as bus breaks down Hundreds of tourists and daily commuters, including school students, headed towards Kasauli and Shimla remained stranded in a traffic jam for more than two hours on main bazaar, National Highway 22, here today. |
| 20/09/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Car pool, better traffic signals viable solutions |
Car pool is the most effective means of handling the burgeoning traffic on city roads, feels Prof Harish Bhatia, a transportation consultant and former teacher at Punjab Engineering College.
However, Neha Malhotra, an HR manager, says: 'The city should go in for the Singapore model of heavy taxes on every subsequent purchase of car by an individual." |
| 20/09/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Metro not before a decade |
| The tricity will have to wait for at least a decade before expecting any respite from the ever-increasing traffic on city roads and adjoining townships in the form of a metro, worked out by the Rail India Technical Economic Services (RITES). The ministry of urban development has given hope for a metro in the city alone in the next five years. |
| 20/09/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Most autos don’t use meters |
No autorickshaw at the Tribune Chowk was willing to drive this correspondent to Sector 17 on a metered drive this morning. One asked for Rs 60, another Rs 70 and the third only Rs 40.
Not exactly in the domain of public transport, autorickshaws and cabs are a major mode of transportation for a large number of commuters everyday. About 700 autorickshaws ply on city roads, besides those coming from Panchkula and Mohali. Over 70 per cent of the autorickshaws do not use meters and a considerable number don’t even have it. |
| 20/09/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Few takers for CTU buses |
The grid system of the Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) has failed to emerge as a permanent mode of transport for thousands of commuters as it has failed to deliver. The increasing number of vehicles confirms public dissatisfaction with the bus service.
In sectors on the periphery, buses are neither on time nor do these ply frequently. The administration has failed to reduce the load of traffic on city roads which are bursting at the seams.
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| 20/09/2009 | Read More.. |
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| India to seek $3bn WB loan for roads |
India will seek a $3-billion (Rs 15,000 crore) loan from World Bank to convert 6,376 km of single-lane national highways (NH) to two-lanes.
Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath would meet World Bank chief Robert Zoellick during his seven-day visit to the USA and put forward the proposal to seek the loan. Nath left for the USA late last night.
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| 14/09/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Traffic woes in Shimla |
To regulate traffic and tide over the problem of haphazard parking, the government is mulling over the creation of an urban transport authority under the local municipal corporation (MC) so that the city’s mobility plan can be implemented effectively.
With the MC failing to implement the condition of having a mandatory parking floor in all constructions being undertaken in the town, vehicles parked along the roads are adding to the traffic woes and restricting free mobility of vehicles all over the town.
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| 03/09/2009 | Read More.. |
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| No brakes on e-way mess |
Non-Tagged Traffic Violates Lanes, No Data On Challan Claims
The assurances given from time to time to ease traffic flow at Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway toll plaza remain just tall claims. Non-tagged traffic continues to enter the lanes meant exclusively for vehicles that have paid up in advance to avoid stoppage at the 32-lane toll plaza.
And with little increase in the share of tagged vehicles in the past one year, the nightmare has intensified. |
| 09/08/2009 | Read More.. |
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| ITP’s FM Radio important step to educate citizens on traffic rules:Sumsam |
Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, Syed Sumsam Ali Shah Bukhari on Wednesday said FM Radio by Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) is an important step to educating the citizens on traffic rules and regulations.The present PPP-led government gives priority to projects which are launched for welfare and betterment of public, he said while talking to journalists during his visit to ITP Office to personally examine the working of first ITP’s FM Radio.
He said Pakistan is passing through critical time of its history and added that terrorists and extremists, who were challenging the writ of the government would be flushed out.
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| 23/07/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Gilani’s son fined for traffic rule violation |
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's son was caught by traffic police using a high beam and had to pay a fine for violating traffic rules.
An assistant sub inspector of the Islamabad Traffic Police, who was deployed at Radio Pakistan, spotted a car (LEC-411) being driven with high beam.
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| 23/07/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Traffic violation saved his life! |
Violation of a traffic rule saved the life of a mason from the jaws of death! Had Madesha, the mason, not been drunk and police not seized his bike, he would have been eliminated by a gang of 10 persons.
He barely knew that the gang was following him in a four-wheeler on July 19. As he went in his friend’s car after the police seized his bike, the gang dropped their murder plan. However they were caught when they stopped a vehicle near Anil Kumble Circle and tried to rob the driver.
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| 23/07/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Punjab budget ignores drug abuse, road accidents |
When Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal said at the start of his Budget speech that the finance furnishes the most trustworthy interpreter of a government’s doing, one presumed that financial memorandum presented by him before the Vidhan Sabha would take cognizance of serious socio-economic issues that are wreaking havoc in the state.
His quote "our resources are exiguous, but we have manfully striven to meet our obligations and the course of our financial administration clearly demonstrates the most zealous care for the best interest of the Punjab," however, remained unsubstantiated in the proposals and actions he wanted to be taken during the year for augmenting growth, affluence and well-being of the people of the state.
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| 20/07/2009 | Read More.. |
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| House pays tributes to MJ |
The Punjab Vidhan Sabha Budget Session started here today with the House paying rich tributes to prominent politicians, freedom fighters, children who died at an unmanned railway crossing, victims of racial attacks in Australia and even a pop singer who died recently. The obituary references made in the House started with Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, who is also the Leader of the House, and ended with Speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon after many others, including Leader of Opposition Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, remembered the departed souls.
The longest time was spent remembering the traits and contribution of former Cooperation Minister Kanwaljit Singh, who died in a car crash in March this year. Badal described him as a "light house" for the SAD and the spirit behind the function to mark the 300 years of the birth of Khalsa. He also said the Sikh Heritage Complex coming up at Anandpur Sahib was the vision of Capt Kanwaljit Singh.
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| 20/07/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Safety on the road |
International students at Rangitoto College are taking part in a road safety course.
The North Shore City Council is running a road safety day at the school on July 24 for new students enrolled for term three.
Council road safety co-ordinator Angie Cheong says students can gain valuable information about the New Zealand Road Code and safety programmes from the event.
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| 16/07/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Nothing wrong with Talking while Walking |
A recent Idea! ad generated some controversy about talking on the cell phone while walking. People protested that it was contrary to Road safety.
This is not unusual - in India, collectively people have decided that pedestrians are to blame for their own deaths or loss of limb. The other day, I saw a girl crossing a junction with no signal - she was talking on the cellphone. A passing scooterist speeded up on seeing her, came very close, and yelled at her for talking on the cellphone while crossing.
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| 16/07/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Driving, cell phones don't mix for officials |
Traffic safety officials agree that distractions, no matter what kind, are a major cause of traffic crashes.
And one of the biggest distractions are cell phones.
"Anyone, myself included, when you are not paying attention to the road, it's dangerous," said St. Florian Police Chief Ralph Richey. "Talking on the phone while driving is just like watching a video going down the road. You get caught up in it and lose your focus. |
| 08/07/2009 | Read More.. |
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| Back-Seat Driver: Cell phones OK for cops at the wheel |
To Bridget in Folsom, Keith in Orangevale, David in Sacramento and several other annoyed readers:
Yes. Sorry to say, there is in fact a "double standard" with police and cell phones.
Police can talk on handheld cell phones while driving. The rest of us cannot. |
| 08/07/2009 | Read More.. |
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| City roads, a perpetual hazard for pedestrians |
Attention! If you are crossing the road. Do not try look to your right and left but try to look at the road dividers and then cross the road at least here in the industrial city. For most of these road dividers are being damaged by people to make intersections for short-cuts and convenient turns.
For pedestrians, crossing a road is a life-threatening hazard, as they have to escape the killer vehicles passing through these broken spaces between the road dividers.
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| 08/07/2009 | Read More.. |
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