HYDERABAD: The traffic police have decided to initiate stringent action against violators of rules on New Year's eve. Drunken drivers will be seriously dealt with and if required detained after checking with breath-analysers and their vehicles seized. They would later be produced in court the next day, Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) A. K. Khan told a press conference on Thursday.

"We have prescribed 20 km speed limit for two-wheelers and 30 km for four wheelers only on December 31 to prevent accidents." he said.

Constant vigil will be maintained on bikers who race annually at Road No. 36 and check-post in Jubilee Hills, Gandipet and Medchal roads. Special teams comprising of home guards have been constituted for video recording of races and listing the vehicle numbers. Challans will be directly sent to the homes of bike owners on January 1. Over 57 check-posts and mobile barricades will be erected in a zigzag manner mostly on the roads leading to resorts and hotels at Gandipet, Medchal and Shamirpet to curb rash driving.

Diversion

No vehicular traffic will be permitted on flyovers expect Begumpet flyover and entry to Upper Tank Bund and Necklace Road will also be prohibited on December 31 from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. on January 1, 2007.

The police have imposed traffic restrictions around Hussainsagar too. Traffic coming from Visweswarayya statute towards Necklace Road and NTR Marg will be diverted towards Khairatabad and Raj Bhavan. Vehicles from Boorgula Ramakrishna Bhavan to NTR Marg will be diverted towards Iqbal Minar and Lakdi-ka-pul. Motorists coming from Liberty junction and going towards Secunderabad will be diverted from MCH office to BRK Bhavan, Iqbal Minar, Ravindra Bharathi and Lakdi-ka-pul.

Vehicles from Khairatabad Market to Necklace Road will be diverted at Khairatabad Library and Meera Talkies Lane. The Mint Compound lane adjacent to the Secretariat will be closed to vehicular traffic. Traffic coming from Nallagutta Railway Bridge towards Sanjeevaiah Park and Necklace Road will not be permitted and diverted towards Karbala Maidan or Ministers Road from 5 p.m.

Motorists coming from Secunderabad towards Liberty or Iqbal Minar will be diverted at Sailing Club towards Kavadiguda crossroads, Lower Tank Bund, Kattamaisamma temple, Ashoknagar and RTC crossroads.

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