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New move to raise fine for lane driving violations

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Union Government and the Delhi Government have jointly suggested a series of measures like enhancing the fine amount for violation of lane driving, segregation of lanes for motorised and non-motorised vehicles and lane-wise traffic lights to rein in the fast rising graph of road accidents in the Capital. According to the minutes of the meeting filed in the Delhi High Court by Additional Solicitor-General Gopal Subramaniam, the fine amount for violation of lane driving would be enhanced.

Mr. Subramaniam filed the minutes in response to queries put to the two Governments following the Court taking suo motu note of the increase in the number of accidents in the Capital on the basis of a media report published in November last year.

The minutes said that lane driving would be enforced strictly and change of lanes would be allowed only in the zones provided for it, adding that from now onward thermoplast (a kind of paint) having a span of one to two years would be used to mark lanes. There was also consensus on having separate lanes for motorised and non-motorised vehicles. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, has already prepared a master plan for cycle tracks, the minutes said.

It was further suggested introduction of lane-wise traffic lights at junctions where traffic moves in different phases. Though the overall objective of the traffic reform was a shift towards seamless traffic by reducing signals, for those signals that still exist, lane-wise traffic lights would be introduced to optimise the flow of traffic, the minutes said.

The measures were discussed and agreed upon by senior officials of the Union Ministry of Transport and Shipping and the Transport Department of the Delhi Government at a meeting convened by Mr. Subramaniam between January 22 and 27. The Court had appointed Mr. Subramaniam an amicus curae in the matter. A Division Bench of the High Court comprising Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice H.R. Malhotra will take up the suggestions for consideration on February 9.

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