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'Illegal' speed-breakers give commuters nightmare
What if you have to drive every day through a 200-metre stretch dotted with 25 speed-breakers. You may end up stretching limits of your body and driving skills to cross this street at Guru Tegh Bahadur Nagar, opposite main entrance of local DAV College.
What if you have to drive every day through a 200-metre stretch dotted with 25 speed-breakers. You may end up stretching limits of your body and driving skills to cross this street at Guru Tegh Bahadur Nagar, opposite main entrance of local DAV College.
While the municipal corporation of Bathinda was apparently in deep sleep, someone constructed 25 speed-breakers on this small stretch probably to discourage commuters from using the road.
The road is used by the mostly by cyclists, bike riders and rickshaw pullers as it is the shortest route between Bibi Wala Road and 100 Ft Road.
It is learnt that some people living in the street have raised these speed-breakers to keep traffic at bay.
“Some accidents have already been reported from the stretch. On Friday, a woman fell off a rickshaw as it encountered speed-breakers. We, too, have been suffering,” said a resident of the same street, on the condition of anonymity.
“You cannot blame people who have constructed speed-breakers. It has happened due to the negligence of the MCB. It is not the first street where speed-breakers have come up overnight,” said Bhavdeep Tanhgi, a professor at Panjab University regional campus, Bathinda. He said now he has to find an alternative route to reach home.
MCB assistant commissioner Kamal Kant has assured to look into the matter.
What guidelines say
A speed-breaker should be designed after observing the intensity and kind of traffic on the road.
It should have proper inclination, 45 degree in most cases.
A warning on signboards should be put up before a speed-breaker.
The road before a speed-breaker should be painted in stripes.
There should be reflectors at speed-breakers to guide traffic during night.
