Radar Speed Signboard The RSS is a new technology and it has been very effective in bringing down cases of speeding –P Harisekharan, Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Bengaluru By Pragna L KrupaThe(RSS), which went up on Airport Road with much fanfare last year, in September to be specific, has gone missing.The RSS which displays the speed at which a vehicle is going, is meant to check speeding vehicles and get drivers to stick to the speed limit displayed on roads to prevent accidents.Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic), P Harishekaran said that it has come to their notice that the signboard was missing from the main road and the traffic police have filed a complaint with the Kodigehalli law and order police who are currently investigating the case. The traffic police noticed last week that the pillar on which the RSS was installed had fallen down on the road while the actual meter was nowhere to be found. The board costs Rs 2.5 lakh.The city traffic police in an attempt to prevent accidents on the main Airport road due to speeding had installed these boards. The first of these boards had gone up on either sides of the Hebbal-Yelahanka flyover stretch and were later installed in other parts of the city.Police say that most of the cars are found speeding and these speed signboards help to keep them in check and reduce their speed. These boards have the ability to read and display the speed of a vehicle from a distance of 50 metres.According to the statistics provided by the city traffic police, in 2017, 1,30,868 lakh cases of speeding were booked while the number came down to 90,942 cases in 2018.“The RSS is a new technology and it has been very effective in bringing down cases of speeding,” he said.As many as 799 accident cases have been registered this year till February 28, out of which 110 were fatal accidents and 689 were non-fatal leaving 734 injured.Surprisingly, the signboard installed at Kodigehalli was part of the first installment of signboards that had been installed on the Airport road, by theTraffic Police. The speed on this flyover stretch is 80 kmph for cars, though most of the vehicles are found to be exceeding the speed limit, say police.Devika R, a regular commuter says that, “To make RSS more effective, they should be used to issue challans to violators. However, as of now, these boards are only warning people that they have crossed the speed limit. Many of my friends say that they try to slow down their vehicles after they see their speed on the signboards.Most of the time it was found to be accurate as a blinker light changed with vehicles passing by.”

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