[sustran] Re: The Hindu Report Sept 14, 2010 : UMTA

Kanthimathi Kannan kanthikannan at gmail.com
Tue Sep 14 13:42:09 JST 2010


Dear all

Greetings!!

We seem to be in festival mode. Read on :)

Regards

Kanthi



http://www.hindu.com/2010/09/14/stories/2010091461320300.htm


*Hike traffic fines, says panel*

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: Increasing traffic fine amounts by five times and finding a
solution to demands for installing statues at junctions which end up as
obstructions, facilities for pedestrians and so on are on top of agenda of
the Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (UMTA) sub-committee.

On the installation of the statutes, one of the meetings of the
sub-committee decided to address the government to issue an order ‘not to
install statues at the junctions in the city, which are going to be traffic
obstructions/bottlenecks for the free flow of traffic as a matter of
policy'. The need was felt in view of requests for statues in big numbers.
The committee also felt that the present amount of traffic fine at Rs.100
was not enough to act as a deterrent for those violating the provisions of
Motor Vehicle Act. The deliberations veered around the idea of hiking it to
a level that could deter the motorists and looked at enhancing it to at
least five times. This would make the fine aspect in the city for traffic
violations on par with other metros in the country.

It also took note of the absence of proper pedestrianisation in the
city. *Recording
that ‘the public have no place to walk safely', the committee recommended
for proper footpaths and it was decided to identify three important
stretches in the first phase and developing the facility for pedestrians.*

*Also underscored was the need for controlling the encroachments and parking
on existing footpaths. *For crossing roads, it was decided to have
foot-over-bridges at some identified places and have ones that are set up
with as light structure, be transparent and open to sky.


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