Earlier, the court had asked road-owning agencies to remove all unauthorised speed breakers after pleas against them were filed.
In a bid to make roads in the Capital safer, the Delhi Traffic Police on Thursday issued an advisory, urging residents to not construct speed breakers without mandatory permissions. Quoting a Delhi High Court (HC) order, the cops asked the residents to not take law in their hands and to follow due procedure before building speed breakers in localities, which often result in accidents and injuries.
“The public should be made aware that in case they feel there is a need of a speed breaker at a particular location, they must not take law in their own hands. They must move an application in this regard to the DCP (traffic-range) concerned,” stated the court order, dated September 30, 2016.
Earlier, the court had asked road-owning agencies to remove all unauthorised speed breakers after pleas against them were filed.
Slamming the move, however, Balvinder Kumar, a resident of south Delhi’s Siddhartha Extension and a Resident Welfare Association (RWA) member, said: “Two years ago, we wrote to the DCP concerned to build speed breakers in the colony as there were a few sharp turns, giving rise to a need to control the vehicles’ speed. The application kept moving for a year, but there was no response to it. How long can residents wait for a facility such as this? The court must ensure that residents get response from the police or any other government agency, for that matter.”
In an August, 2016, order, the Delhi HC gave four weeks to road-owning agencies in the national Capital to remove all speed breakers that were not approved by the traffic police and that did not conform to the prescribed norms.
According to the Road Accident Report (2015), published by the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways, speed breakers counted for 2.2 per cent (11,084) of the total 501,423 road accidents, and 2.3 per cent (3,409) of the 146,133 road accident fatalities in the year. The report, the latest available, also stated that speed bumps contributed to 9,764 injuries of the total 500,279 injuries.
In May, 2016, the HC had made it clear that its directions “shall be strictly complied with” and warned that in case of non-compliance, it “would be constrained to take coercive action” against those responsible.
The traffic police had then submitted a status report, as per which the agency had carried out a field survey in which 89 locations were identified where speed breakers were not approved. The survey also identified 53 locations where speed breakers were approved but were of faulty design.
The court was hearing two public interest litigations (PILs) filed against unauthorised construction of speed breakers on city roads without complying with the guidelines of the Indian Road Congress (IRC) and the Unified Traffic and Transportation Infrastructure (Planning and Engineering) Centre (UTTIPEC).
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