To address the problem of increasing noise pollution and road accidents due to the increased number of vehicles and population, traffic police would use ‘Speed Radar Gun’ and silence zone in the city.
With the help of ‘Speed Radar Gun’ City commuters would face penalties for speeding more than the limits and honking unnecessarily in silent zones. ASP (Traffic) Sameer Yadav said that a trial has been conducted around four days ago at the road from old jail road to police control room and 17 vehicles which were found over speeding were stopped and provided with the information of speed gun radar and penalty under Motor Vehicle Act.
The speeding drivers were warned before they were released without imposing any penalty.
In the initial phase traffic police have marked five stretches of roads where the speed limit has been set at 40 km/ hr.
The roads which would be monitored are Bairagarh to Misrod BRTS road, link road -1, link road -2, link road-3 and police control room to Gurudev Gupt square at DB Mall. The silent zones where the permissible limit is 80 decibels and the zones which have been declared as silent zone are Nutan
College square area, Boart club area, Narmada hospital to National hospital area and mantralaya. Traffic police personnel would be penalizing the errant drivers under section 116 of the Motor Vehicle Act-1988.
The penalty would be
in the range of ` 1000 to `3000. On two-wheelers and four-wheelers the penalty would be `1000 and for heavy vehicles it would be `3000.