The Times of India                09.01.2014 

Corporation comes up with three kinds of speed breakers

CHENNAI: The city corporation drew up another plan to regularise speed breakers on Wednesday. It will design three models of speed breakers to suit roads with different traffic intensity.

The three models are for vehicles travelling at speeds of 10kmph, 15kmph and 25kmph and are designed as per Indian Road Congress (IRC) standards. "We will decide on the type of speed breaker to install based on the amount of traffic the road sees," said a senior corporation official. The speed breakers will be installed close to schools, hospitals and at accident-prone junctions, said a statement from the civic body. Speed breakers that fail to meet IRC standards, including rubber ones, will be replaced.

Committees have been formed in every zone to identify illegal speed breakers. "Speed breakers that have not been laid by us or the traffic police will be removed. Rubber speed breakers and badly built ones will be replaced," said a senior corporation official. Another committee comprising a superintendent engineer, traffic inspector, an NGO representative and a few other people will study speed breakers on all bus route roads.

The danger of poorly constructed speed breakers struck the government only after state food and cooperation minister Sellur K Raja's son died when his bike hit a speed breaker on NSC Bose Road.