BENGALURU: Taking cue from their counterparts in Mumbai, Bengaluru city traffic police are planning to end the cacophonous honking on city roads by installing decibel linked signal-lighting at busy intersections in the city.
Mumbai traffic police have installed special decibel meters connected to traffic signals and when the noise level exceeds 85dB, the signal timer would reset itself, forced motorists to wait for a longer time. The “punishment” to honk-happy, impatient motorists is expected to deter them from not teaching honking the next time when they are stuck in snarls and at intersections.
A video clip posted by Mumbai police on their Twitter handle has received more than one lakh likes and 50,000 retweets.
Bengaluru city police commissioner Bhaskar Rao on Sunday said that he has already spoken to Mumbai cops about their initiative, has taken the details of vendors and will shortly implement the system in the city. Rao said he spoke to Mumbai joint commissioner (traffic) Madhukar Pandey in this regard.
Bhaskar Rao said, "Hyderabad also has a Mumbai like system in place. Though honking in Bengaluru is not a major issue like it is in Mumbai and Kolkata, we will implement to bring a discipline on the roads."
“I will ask the joint commissioner of police (traffic) to identify the junctions where honking is an issue,” Rao said.
Last week, TomTom, the Dutch location technology specialist that competes with Google Maps, released its traffic index report where Bengaluru was top among the traffic congested cities of the world. Peak time commuters in Bengaluru spend an extra 10 days and three hours stuck in traffic each year, compared to the time they would have taken if they were commuting during uncongested conditions. That’s an extra 71% of travel time.
Mumbai traffic police have installed special decibel meters connected to traffic signals and when the noise level exceeds 85dB, the signal timer would reset itself, forced motorists to wait for a longer time. The “punishment” to honk-happy, impatient motorists is expected to deter them from not teaching honking the next time when they are stuck in snarls and at intersections.
A video clip posted by Mumbai police on their Twitter handle has received more than one lakh likes and 50,000 retweets.
Bengaluru city police commissioner Bhaskar Rao on Sunday said that he has already spoken to Mumbai cops about their initiative, has taken the details of vendors and will shortly implement the system in the city. Rao said he spoke to Mumbai joint commissioner (traffic) Madhukar Pandey in this regard.
Bhaskar Rao said, "Hyderabad also has a Mumbai like system in place. Though honking in Bengaluru is not a major issue like it is in Mumbai and Kolkata, we will implement to bring a discipline on the roads."
“I will ask the joint commissioner of police (traffic) to identify the junctions where honking is an issue,” Rao said.
Last week, TomTom, the Dutch location technology specialist that competes with Google Maps, released its traffic index report where Bengaluru was top among the traffic congested cities of the world. Peak time commuters in Bengaluru spend an extra 10 days and three hours stuck in traffic each year, compared to the time they would have taken if they were commuting during uncongested conditions. That’s an extra 71% of travel time.
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