SAFETY CONDITIONS ON NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
LOK SABHA
National Highways
leading out of Delhi are four lane divided carriageway facilities
which are safer than undivided carriageway.
The number of
accidents per 10,000 vehicles have been declining in the country
from 110 in 1996 to around 78 in 2001.
Government is
taking engineering, enforcement and education measures to control
accidents. Engineering measures include improvement in riding
surface and widening of high traffic density corridors to 4/6
lane divided carriageway facility, improvement of horizontal and
vertical alignment, improvement of at-grade intersections and
provision of over and under passes for crossing facilities, segregation
of local traffic in built up portion through provision of service
roads, provision of adequate road signs and markings, provision
of wayside amenities like rest areas, bus bay and truck parking
and provision of additional safety features such as steel beam
safety barriers and pedestrian safety guard rails.
Road safety audit
is proposed to be taken up for the completed four lane sections
of National Highways for identification of hazardous locations
and taking corrective measures.
Highway Traffic
Management System (HTMS) has been installed on 86 km long Kotputli-Amer
Section of NH-8 with facilities of emergency call boxes at every
two kilometer interval, variable message signs at 6 vantage locations,
Close Circuit Television (CCTV) Monitoring System, Mobile communication
system, highway patrolling, crane and ambulance. These are all
controlled from a control centre. This is intended to be replicated
at other suitable stretches.
This information
was given by the Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways,
Shri Shripad Yesso Naik in a written reply to a question of Shri
Bhaskarrao Patil, Dr. M.P. Jaiswal and Shri Haribhai Chaudhary
in Lok Sabha today.
