CHANDIGARH: The traffic police will put up digital speed displays at nine more black spots in the city. These will arrive by the first week of March and cost Rs 12.5 lakh.
Digital speed displays will be put up at 15 identified spots where fatal accidents are more frequent. The traffic police have also bought three night-vision speed radar cameras for Rs 20 lakh to curb speeding after dark when most of the roads are empty. Speeding is the main reason behind road fatalities, and most of the time people don't realise how fast they are going. These displays can alert them.
Six displays are installed already on Purv Marg in Sector 47, near the poultry farm roundabout in the Industrial Area Phase I on Dakshin Marg, near the old airport light point on Dakshin Marg, between Transport Chowk and railway station intersection on Madhya Marg, near the rotary of sectors 45, 46, 49, and 50, and at the Kali Bari light point. The other nine signs will go up at the sector 25-38 light point, near Press Chowk, around PGI, outside district courts in Sector 43, Badheri Chowk, and the railway bridge near Mauli Jagran village.
Deputy superintendent of police (public relations) Charanjit Singh Virk said: "The procurement of nine more digital speed displays is in process to cover all the identified dark spots. The traffic police will also put up guidelines of the transport ministry, besides road signs, blinkers, and rumble strips in these vulnerable areas. At six spots from March, they will also start a special campaign of catching speedsters with night-vision hi-tech radars."
Cops have studied the hours when traffic violations are at their peak. They have been collecting data from all the six speed radars installed, so far, and storing it in a pen drive daily. In the past three years, the UT traffic police have issued traffic ticket to 28,166 drivers who were going over the permissible limit. The figures released by the UT traffic police suggest that they caught 8,837 fast drivers in 2019. 14,745 in 2018, while only 4,584 in 2017.
Digital speed displays will be put up at 15 identified spots where fatal accidents are more frequent. The traffic police have also bought three night-vision speed radar cameras for Rs 20 lakh to curb speeding after dark when most of the roads are empty. Speeding is the main reason behind road fatalities, and most of the time people don't realise how fast they are going. These displays can alert them.
Six displays are installed already on Purv Marg in Sector 47, near the poultry farm roundabout in the Industrial Area Phase I on Dakshin Marg, near the old airport light point on Dakshin Marg, between Transport Chowk and railway station intersection on Madhya Marg, near the rotary of sectors 45, 46, 49, and 50, and at the Kali Bari light point. The other nine signs will go up at the sector 25-38 light point, near Press Chowk, around PGI, outside district courts in Sector 43, Badheri Chowk, and the railway bridge near Mauli Jagran village.
Deputy superintendent of police (public relations) Charanjit Singh Virk said: "The procurement of nine more digital speed displays is in process to cover all the identified dark spots. The traffic police will also put up guidelines of the transport ministry, besides road signs, blinkers, and rumble strips in these vulnerable areas. At six spots from March, they will also start a special campaign of catching speedsters with night-vision hi-tech radars."
Cops have studied the hours when traffic violations are at their peak. They have been collecting data from all the six speed radars installed, so far, and storing it in a pen drive daily. In the past three years, the UT traffic police have issued traffic ticket to 28,166 drivers who were going over the permissible limit. The figures released by the UT traffic police suggest that they caught 8,837 fast drivers in 2019. 14,745 in 2018, while only 4,584 in 2017.
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