Civic bodies get together to ensure road safety

hyderabad: with as many as 2,492 road accidents taking place in the city last year, the civic authorities, for the first time, are coordinating among themselves to ensure road safety. previously, it was left to the traffic police to solve the problem, but now a coordinated effort is being made. as part of the city development work, each department was asked to come up with their respective plan for the next five to 20 years.recently, the traffic police made their presentation before the city level coordination committee meeting where it asked the mch, huda, transport, r&b department, hmws&sb, asprtc and all road users to cooperate with them.the mch was asked to take up issues such as land use pattern, road engineering, road marking, signals and signage, parking and removal of encroachments. mch additional commissioner (traffic & transport) p ranadhir reddy told the times of india that the corporation would provide necessary infrastructure to the police department, while the police would concentrate on modernisation, regulation, enforcement and education. as part of their modernisation plans, the police will embark on installation of cctvs and digital count down clocks at the important junctions for better flow of traffic and effective tracking of offenders, restricting registration of vehicles and scientific segregation of traffic and prohibiting non-motorised vehicles and slow moving vehicles on main arterial roads. apart from these exercises, the police department is also contemplating to introduce traffic education at schools, air traffic control system, linking vehicle insurance with traffic violations, more stringent traffic laws, pedestrianisation of commercial and recreational areas and phasing out old vehicles relating to emission and safety standards.