As many as 1,403 people have lost their lives in over a thousand road accidents in Gurgaon over the past three years. They includes 552 pedestrians, 462 motorcyclists and 81 cyclists.

The Centre has turned down suggestions for planting chillies and tea crops around railway tracks to curb the mowing down of elephants by trains, saying it would hamper the migration of the animals

Road safety group does signal check

Pune: The Save Pune Traffic Movement (SPTM), working towards sustainable transport and road safety, has helped fix eleven signals for pedestrians with the help of the Pune Municipal Corporation. The NGO will identify more such junctions where the signals are required or need repair.

नियम तोड़ने पर IPC के तहत कार्रवाई

मोटर वीइकल एक्ट के दायरे में ना आने और किसी ठोस पॉलिसी के अभाव में ट्रैफिक नियमों की धज्जियां उड़ा रहे ई-रिक्शों पर नकैल कसने का तरीका ट्रैफिक पुलिस ने ढूंढ निकाला है। ट्रैफिक पुलिस अब उन ई-रिक्शा चालकों के रिक्शे जब्त करके उनके खिलाफ आईपीसी के तहत केस रजिस्टर करवा रही है, जो ट्रैफिक के फ्लो की दिशा से उलटी दिशा में रिक्शे चलाते हैं। ट्रैफिक पुलिस ने साफ कर दिया है कि उनके पास कानून के तहत ई-रिक्शों के खिलाफ इस तरह का एक्शन लेने की पावर है। आने वाले दिनों में ट्रैफिक पुलिस और ज्यादा सख्ती से दिल्ली के उन सभी इलाकों में यह ड्राइव चलाएगी, जहां बड़ी तादाद में ई-रिक्शे चलते हैं।

Mumbai:The city witnessed two accidents involving BEST buses on Tuesday.

Two years back, Gita Vir, a civic activist, died when she was hit by a motorcycle while she was crossing a road.

Courting better footpaths

While walking to her workplace in Bangalore, Jenny Pinto encounters electrical transformers, uncovered manholes and displaced tiles. After years of trying to nudge people into action for walkers’ rights, Pinto has realized one thing. “That unless citizens take a legal route to make civic authorities understand the importance of walkability, safe roads have no chance,” she says. A designer and a resident of Indiranagar, 53-yearold Pinto did just that by filing a petition last April with the Karnataka high court seeking directions to the government to build better footpaths.

This month, a pedestrian activist in Bangalore lost her life in a road accident. But the fight goes on.