Archive for December, 2006
December 29th, 2006
This New Year Eve, the city will see unprecedented restrictions and traffic curbs. All flyovers, except the Begumpet one, will be closed for traffic on December 31 from 10 pm to 2 am. Nasscom has also chipped in and issued an advisory to all IT and BPO units asking their employees to adhere to norms and not violate motor vehicle rules.
Of late, IT and BPO employees have been involved in a number of road accidents. To reduce drunken drivingrelated accidents, the city police had written to Nasscom to issue an advisory to IT/BPO units.
All roads abutting Hussain Sagar, Necklace road, Upper Tank Bund, NTR Marg, would also remain closed for traffic from 10 pm to 2 am. Check units comprising of constables and Home Guards would be posted at 57 check posts in the city and outskirts. These check posts would be armed with video cameras to capture offences on film. The personnel at check points would note down the vehicle numbers and challans would be dispatched to their homes on Jan. 1. Special focus would be on roads leading to Gandipet and Medchal, where many resorts and entertainment centres are located.
TRAFFIC DIVERSIONS:
- Traffic coming from Viswesvaraya statue towards Necklace road and NTR Marg will be diverted at Viswesvaraya statue towards Khairatabad and Raj Bhavan road.
- Traffic coming from BRK Bhavan towards NTR Marg will be diverted to Iqbal Minar, Lakdi-ka-Pul and Ayodhya hotel road.
- Vehicles coming from Liberty junction going to Secunderabad will be diverted from MCH office ‘Y’ junction towards BRK Bhavan, Telugu Talli flyover, Iqbal Minar, Ravindra Bharati, Lakdi-ka-Pul and Ayodhya road.
- Traffic from Khairatabad market and going to Necklace rotary will be diverted to Meera talkies lane.
- Mint compound lane will be closed for all motorists.
- Traffic coming from Nallagutta railway bridge towards Sanjeevaiah park and Necklace road will not be allowed and diverted towards Karbala Maidan or Minister’s road from 5 pm onwards.
- Traffic coming from Secunderabad and going towards Liberty or Iqbal Minar will be diverted at Sailing Club towards Kavadiguda crossroads, lower Tank Bund, Kattamaisamma temple, Ashok Nagar and RTC crossroads.
Source: TOI(Hyderabad-epaper)
December 29th, 2006
Pune: An 18-year-old student was killed and four others seriously injured when the car they were travelling in rammed into a tree near Buchade road, Range Hills, on Wednesday night.
The deceased, Tejas Sanjay Salvi of Kondhwa, an engineering student, was driving the car, when it lost control and skidded off the road. The injured have been identified as Aditya Shrivastava (17) of Kondhwa, Manoj Kogde (19) and Javed Peerjade (19), both residents of Model Colony, and Nikita Shetty (18) of Ganeshkhind road.
The police, who have filed a case of rash and negligent driving against the deceased, said the accident took place on a military plot covered with trees. The youths were heading towards the University of Pune from Khadki at around 11 pm.
An eye-witness, Shankar Tadakhe (54) of Aundh road, said the speeding car had overtaken his bike. “I heard loud music from the car and allowed it to pass. The car then suddenly veered off the road and rammed into a tree.”
Tadakhe, with the help of local residents, pulled the youths out of the crashed car. The police rushed them to a private hospital, where Salvi was declared dead. The injured were shifted to various city hospitals on Thursday.
Peerjade’s mother Gulnaz told reporters that all the boys grew up together. Peerjade and two others were B.Com students.
Peerjade family members did not know much about the girl, but said she was a B.A. student and a friend of Salvi.
Gulnaz said Salvi’s family members, who run a business in the city, had been to Gujarat to attend a function. Salvi, who was alone in the house, called his friends to go on a drive on Tuesday evening, she added.
Source: TOI(Pune-epaper)
December 29th, 2006
Serious action against drunken driving; speed limits to be imposed on two and four-wheelers. Seventeen areas identified for traffic rule violations Over 57 check-posts and barricades to be erected across city.
The traffic police have decided to initiate stringent action against violators of rules on New Year’s eve. Drunken drivers will be seriously dealt with and if required detained after checking with breath-analysers and their vehicles seized. They would later be produced in court the next day, Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) A. K. Khan told a press conference on Thursday.
“We have prescribed 20 km speed limit for two-wheelers and 30 km for four wheelers only on December 31 to prevent accidents.” he said.
Constant vigil will be maintained on bikers who race annually at Road No. 36 and check-post in Jubilee Hills, Gandipet and Medchal roads. Special teams comprising of home guards have been constituted for video recording of races and listing the vehicle numbers. Challans will be directly sent to the homes of bike owners on January 1. Over 57 check-posts and mobile barricades will be erected in a zigzag manner mostly on the roads leading to resorts and hotels at Gandipet, Medchal and Shamirpet to curb rash driving.
No vehicular traffic will be permitted on flyovers expect Begumpet flyover and entry to Upper Tank Bund and Necklace Road will also be prohibited on December 31 from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. on January 1, 2007.
The police have imposed traffic restrictions around Hussainsagar too. Traffic coming from Visweswarayya statute towards Necklace Road and NTR Marg will be diverted towards Khairatabad and Raj Bhavan. Vehicles from Boorgula Ramakrishna Bhavan to NTR Marg will be diverted towards Iqbal Minar and Lakdi-ka-pul. Motorists coming from Liberty junction and going towards Secunderabad will be diverted from MCH office to BRK Bhavan, Iqbal Minar, Ravindra Bharathi and Lakdi-ka-pul.
Vehicles from Khairatabad Market to Necklace Road will be diverted at Khairatabad Library and Meera Talkies Lane. The Mint Compound lane adjacent to the Secretariat will be closed to vehicular traffic. Traffic coming from Nallagutta Railway Bridge towards Sanjeevaiah Park and Necklace Road will not be permitted and diverted towards Karbala Maidan or Ministers Road from 5 p.m.
Motorists coming from Secunderabad towards Liberty or Iqbal Minar will be diverted at Sailing Club towards Kavadiguda crossroads, Lower Tank Bund, Kattamaisamma temple, Ashoknagar and RTC crossroads.
Source: The Hindu(Hyderabad-epaper)
December 28th, 2006
Hyderabad: Come 2007, the city will see Smart licence and registration cards similar to ATM/credit cards with a memory chip instead of the conventional ones. Henceforth, every time a motorist violates traffic rules, it will be digitally recorded on the Smart Card and his\her licence may be suspended or even cancelled after the third violation.
The Smart Card, which is an initiative of the Union ministry of road transport and highways, would be implemented in all states of the country. The state transport authority (STA) is introducing the Smart Cards project from next week in Bahadurpura Regional Transport Authority (RTA) on an experimental basis. The pilot project would be supervised by National Informatics Centre (NIC) officials. An NIC team would study the compatibility of the software it has developed for smart cards in the city. Once the team gives the go-ahead, Smart Cards would be introduced first in Bahadurpura and then across all RTA offices in the state.
The Smart Cards would replace conventional plastic licence and registration certificate cards in use now. They come with an inbuilt memory chip which would store information like past traffic offences, tax, insurance, pollution under check and permit validity. These details can be read by swiping them with hand-held readers, to be given to enforcement personnel.
Offences registered against a motorist would be fed into the Smart Card when one goes to an RTA office for any transaction. Licence and registration cards in use now only carry printed information. The Smart Card along with printed matter would carry additional details.
NIC is providing two softwares, ‘Vahan’ and ‘Sarathi’ free of cost to all state transport departments in the country for implementing the project. “The NIC team will study the compatibility of the softwares at Bahadurpura for a month after which we will start issuing Smart Cards to new and existing licence holders there. The issuing of smart cards would begin in a month,” joint transport commissioner N V Subba Rao told TOI. In two months, Smart Cards would be implemented across the state. There are plans to link the hand-held readers to the central server of the RTA in the coming months so that information can be updated instantly from the reader to the Smart Card.
Source: TOI(Hyderabad-epaper)
December 28th, 2006
Pattukottai: Eight persons were killed and 23 others injured when a State Transport Corporation bus going from Nagapattinam to Thondi fell into the Nasuviniyar river at Anaikadu, eight km from Pattukottai, in Thanjavur district, in the early hours on Wednesday.
The bus hit the bridge’s wall and fell into the flowing river. Weeds in the river, mud, flowing water and darkness made things worse for the passengers.
Seven died on the spot while one died on the way to Thanjavur Medical College Hospital.
While the driver, Ilango, escaped with minor injuries, the conductor, P. Pakkirisamy (40), was killed on the spot.
Driver surrenders
Ilango, who surrendered at the Pattukottai police station, said he felt the front wheel slipping into a pit on the side of the bridge and before he could turn it, the bus hit the wall and fell into the river.
The driver came out of the bus and reached the bridge. He informed a person, who came on a two-wheeler, about the accident.
The person passed on the message to the police, hospital and fire service on his cell phone.
Police and fire service personnel arrived at the spot and carried out rescue operations.
The dead and the injured were shifted to Pattukottai Government Hospital. Eight seriously injured were moved to Thanjavur Medical College Hospital.
According to an injured passenger, when the accident happened, the conductor was talking to the driver and those who died were in back seats.
The dead were identified as Rengammal, wife of Rasapakkiyam of Thamarankottai; Seerangam (50) of Rasiyankadu; Ramachandran (50) of Samanthanpettai Nadutheru, Nagapattinam; Jayabal of Muthupettai; Sellaiyan (62) of Munumangollai Mannankadu; Pakkirisamy, bus conductor, Rice Mill Street of Paravachery; Karuppaiyan of Thambikottai and Pavunammal of Akkaraipettai.
C. Vijayarajkumar, Thanjavur Collector, Anand Kumar Somani, Superintendent of Police, Thanjavur, and M. Ayyasamy, District Fire Officer, visited the spot.
Fire service personnel led by M. Mohammed Haneef, station officer, Pattukottai, rescued fifteen persons.
Source: The Hindu(Chennai-epaper)
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