Noida: Going strictly by the outcome, the tyre killers did their job on their first full ‘outing’ after being installed; on a road where wrong-side is common, no one dared venture anywhere near the ‘speed breaker with spikes’.It’s another matter that even people on the right side were sceptical about their tyres’ chances of making it past the spikes, especially after the tyre killer itself came loose in the morning, which the Noida Authority blamed on “tampering”.But other concerns were voiced, which the police and administration will have to answer over the new few days. Residents said they feared accidents and damage to low-floor cars. In Pune, the only other Indian city to have tried out tyre killers, they were removed because they became a bigger threat to public safety — because of the accidents as deflated tyres caused drivers to lose control — than a deterrent against wrong-side driving.Noida, for now, has just one tyre killer — near Capetown on the roads between sectors 74 and 77. Others are planned near Sector 77 North Eye junction, Sector 76 metro station, the Sai Mandir U-turn at Sector 61 and near the Sector 16A flyover.On Tuesday morning, traffic slowed to crawl near the lone tyre killer strip, warned from a distance by signage that cried out ‘Saavdhan, Tyre Killer’. Local residents were exasperated that the Noida Authority had not installed them properly because spikes pointing in the wrong direction can lead to serious accidents. “Tyre killer speed breakers were not installed professionally. Broken at points, they may cause accident and injury to people. Either do it in a professional way or don’t do it,” said Bharat B, a motorist. “They need to be reinstalled by cutting the road, else small cars will get damaged soon,” said another.Noida Authority general manager Rajeev Tyagi told TOI broken pieces of the tyre killer were a case of tampering. “We have spent over Rs 1.7 lakh on this installation. We are in the process of fixing the problem and will be eventually making a slope of bitumen road near the tyre killers which will fix the structure permanently, without any loose ends. There will be no such problem then,” said Tyagi.Tyre killers are essentially metal strips that acts as speed breaker for those driving on the right side. But if one is driving on the wrong side, then its spring-operated spikes puncture the tyres of vehicles.

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