LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to install rumble strips every 15km on the Yamuna Expressway to prevent drivers from exceeding the speed limit and to keep them alert on the wheel, state industrial development minister Satish Mahana said in the assembly on Thursday.
The announcement comes a fortnight after a bus skidded off the Yamuna Expressway, killing 29 passengers on board, taking the total number of deaths on the high-speed road to 120 this year. He also said all gaps and open culverts on the expressway would be levelled and cemented to ensure driver safety.
The issue was raised by BSP MLA Sukdeo Rajbhar who pointed out that most accidents were caused by tyre bursts and drivers dozing off on the wheel.
'Rumble strips defeat the purpose of expressway'
More than 400 accidents have taken place on Lucknow-Agra Expressway since it became operational, he claimed. Rumble strips, also known as sleeper lines, are a road safety feature to alert inattentive drivers of potential danger, by causing a tactile vibration and audible rumbling transmitted through the wheels into the vehicle interior.
Experts, however, stressed rumble strips defeat the purpose of an expressway.
"This is not the correct way to control speed. The government should ensure compliance of speed limits, rather than put up speed breakers," said former PWD chief engineer, JP Jain. Mahana also told the Assembly that the state government would set up a trauma centre at Kannauj to provide "urgent medical help" to accident victims.
The government would also launch a mobile app that would allow passengers to track location of ambulances and police once they are on the expressway. Illegal dhabas along the expressway would be shut as they pose a hazard, Mahana said. To ensure free flow of traffic, parking of heavy vehicles, including trucks and buses along the expressway, would be totally banned.
The government's overdrive to curb accidents comes close on heels of UP Expressway Industrial Development Authority setting a three-hour time limit for plying on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway. Mahana said the state government has already begun issuing e-challans to drivers who exceed speeds of 100 km/hr or cover the expressway in less than three hours.
The announcement comes a fortnight after a bus skidded off the Yamuna Expressway, killing 29 passengers on board, taking the total number of deaths on the high-speed road to 120 this year. He also said all gaps and open culverts on the expressway would be levelled and cemented to ensure driver safety.
The issue was raised by BSP MLA Sukdeo Rajbhar who pointed out that most accidents were caused by tyre bursts and drivers dozing off on the wheel.
'Rumble strips defeat the purpose of expressway'
More than 400 accidents have taken place on Lucknow-Agra Expressway since it became operational, he claimed. Rumble strips, also known as sleeper lines, are a road safety feature to alert inattentive drivers of potential danger, by causing a tactile vibration and audible rumbling transmitted through the wheels into the vehicle interior.
Experts, however, stressed rumble strips defeat the purpose of an expressway.
"This is not the correct way to control speed. The government should ensure compliance of speed limits, rather than put up speed breakers," said former PWD chief engineer, JP Jain. Mahana also told the Assembly that the state government would set up a trauma centre at Kannauj to provide "urgent medical help" to accident victims.
The government would also launch a mobile app that would allow passengers to track location of ambulances and police once they are on the expressway. Illegal dhabas along the expressway would be shut as they pose a hazard, Mahana said. To ensure free flow of traffic, parking of heavy vehicles, including trucks and buses along the expressway, would be totally banned.
The government's overdrive to curb accidents comes close on heels of UP Expressway Industrial Development Authority setting a three-hour time limit for plying on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway. Mahana said the state government has already begun issuing e-challans to drivers who exceed speeds of 100 km/hr or cover the expressway in less than three hours.
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