\u201cThe Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has amended the Motor Vehicle Act to discipline traffic offenders with heavy penalties and curb road accidents , inclusion of road safety in manifesto will help motivate other national and regional political parties to include road safety in their manifesto\u2019s ” said Mr Kapila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Curbing vehicular pollution should also be part of the manifesto which should include keeping high-polluting\u00a0vehicles away from cities and plan and implement their end of life.\u00a0Well conceived and operational public transportation systems – supporting the metro, and bus services. Better maintenance and traffic management of roads to reduce travel time.” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSolutions to the problems also\u00a0lies in\u00a0improving public\u00a0transport, such as\u00a0Metro Service,\u00a0introducing park and ride schemes, \u00a0pedestrianization (e.g. CP and Chandni Chowk, Karol Bagh), encouraging carpooling to work and building\u00a0an additional\u00a0wide ring road\u00a0network\u00a0in addition to the existing ones \u201c said Mr Kapila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAn Action plan is also needed to decongest Delhi roads\u00a0by better traffic management, covering the entire city with Intelligent Traffic Management System\u00a0 in a span about 3 to 5 years.\u00a0 This will help movement of traffic in designated lanes, proper guidance to the road users on the routes to be taken so that they avoid congested locations and take alternative routes displayed through Intelligence\u00a0Transport\u00a0System \u00a0panels.\u00a0 This would also improve road safety and contain environment\u00a0pollution. Other actions could be\u00a0imposing\u00a0higher parking charges in certain areas and higher road tax on purchase of second or third vehicle by individuals. The idea is to discourage private\u00a0transport\u00a0by putting in place a multi-modal public\u00a0transport\u00a0system in the Capital. The city’s thirst for owning vehicles looks nowhere near quenched even though Delhi’s roads are groaning rather loudly under their weight. Vehicles are in fact known to be the largest contributor to the capital’s fast deteriorating air quality\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0“Installing smog tower at identified hot spots (to begin as Pilot projects). will also help ” he added\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
International Road Federation (IRF), a Geneva based global body \u00a0working worldwide for safer roads has urged the political parties in the National capital to add\u00a0 road safety and the commitment to reduce deaths due to road crashes in their\u00a0 political manifesto as well as curb transport pollution with a strong willed\u00a0 commitment to reduce road accident\u00a0 fatalities by 50% in the next Five years. During the year 2018 more than 1600 persons were killed and about 6000 were injured in about 6,300 road accidents in Delhi.\u00a0Annually, at least 1.50 lakh people get killed in road crashes and India, which has <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,78,1875,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-awareness-series","category-events","category-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61605,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61604\/revisions\/61605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}