Footpath riders, your time's up

  • | Wednesday | 21st November, 2018

On November 19, we caught 10 offenders who were riding on the footpath and fined them.”The city traffic police are also planning to conduct more awareness drives on road safety and educate motorists about the perils of violating traffic rules including footpath riding. footpath. The main objective was to ensure that these abandoned vehicles do not obstruct the movement of traffic on the city streets. The traffic police are planning to ensure that at least 500 such cases are booked in the city by this weekend. Traffic Inspector Mohan N says, “We fine those riding on footpaths almost every day.

bikes violators Passenger Information Display Boards coming soon to BMTC bus shelters The Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) of BMTC’s buses, is no longer going to be treated as classified information. After being at the discussion stage for a year, the BBMP has given permission to the BMTC to install the Passenger Information System (PIS) boards. footpath . It's time to get rid of abandoned vehicles rotting on Bengaluru's roads and pavements Additional Commissioner (Traffic) P Harishekaran said that the traffic police had conducted a special drive in the last two weeks to ensure that there were no abandoned vehicles along the roadside and had towed in as many as 52 vehicles during the exercise. The main objective was to ensure that these abandoned vehicles do not obstruct the movement of traffic on the city streets. ? By Reya MehrotraAll those who want to ride their, stay off the footpaths. Or be prepared to serve some prison time or have your wallets made lighter by Rs 1000.After fair warnings, the police have come down hard on two-wheeler riders taking over footpaths.Additional Commissioner (Traffic) P Harishekaran has ordered for a special drive against theseacross the city and book them under section 279 of the Indian Penal Code that carries a prison term of up to six months. The traffic police are planning to ensure that at least 500 such cases are booked in the city by this weekend. This is to send a stern message to motorists who often do not think twice before riding on pavements to bypass traffic gridlocks, especially during the morning and evening rush hours.“We launched this drive three to four days back and strict instructions have been given to book these violators under section 297 of the IPC. We are taking this very seriously as our prime duty is to ensure road safety. So far at least 250 violators have been booked,” said Harishekaran.The traffic police have also been instructed to invoke section 184 of the Motor Vehicles Act 1988 for dangerously driving on city streets and repeat offenders could even find the traffic police recommending the transport department to suspend their driving licence.Adugodi traffic police officials said that they booked 23 two-wheeler riders on Monday and 18 of them were let off with a warning and five of them were booked and their motorcycles were seized. They also pointed out that most of the violations in their limits occurred near Adugodi junction and UCO bank junction.Police also added that most of these violations usually occurred close to busy traffic junctions and each police station had identified such spots and their teams were being positioned there to nab theriders.Madiwala traffic officials quipped that often they don’t find too many such violators in their limits as they didn’t have continuous footpaths. However those riders who were trying to reach their destination early on the footpath from Big Bazaar to the Check post in their limits found themselves pulled up by the Madiwala traffic team on Monday evening.“In our limits we lack footpaths as there are only service roads and the metro work is also underway. However we booked four riders on the Big Bazaar footpath and have recommended for the suspension of their driving license,” said the Madiwala traffic officials.Halasuru Traffic police pointed out that often footpath riding occurs on the stretch near Trinity circle and on Monday they had booked a lone rider who decided to take his two-wheeler on the Tender SURE footpath at around 8pm.“This guy was not even following lane discipline and was riding in the opposite direction and shouting out to the pedestrians to make way for him. We have booked a case,” the traffic official added.In Jeevanbhimanagar, as many as 10 offenders were caught and let off with a warning and fine. Traffic Inspector Mohan N says, “We fine those riding on footpaths almost every day. On November 19, we caught 10 offenders who were riding on the footpath and fined them.”The city traffic police are also planning to conduct more awareness drives on road safety and educate motorists about the perils of violating traffic rules including footpath riding.

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