The Bandra-Worli Sea Link has been given additional speed arresters while the CCTV cameras installed there have been finally networked to the police control room, in twin moves aimed at curbing speeding.
The traffic police have added six speed arresters to the existing five. “The speed arresters include toughened rubber speed arresters and thick thermoplastic paints. The arresters, which are 2.5 feet wide and run along the breadth of the sea link, are reflective and will warn drivers beforehand. Such arresters will hopefully discourage motorists from over-speeding,” DCP (Traffic) Nandkumar Chaugule said.
The traffic police have also acquired the connectivity that will enable them to view the footage from the CCTV cameras installed by the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation. “Earlier, we could not access the feed and as such, we had no way to monitor traffic on the sea link besides relying on the police officers who patrol the sea link on vehicles. Now that we have acquired connectivity, we should be able to monitor the traffic from the traffic police control room,” Chaugule said, adding some technicalities remain to be taken care of.
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