The Hindu              24.01.2014

Rs. 25 crore for road repairs

Deputy Commissioner of Davangere district S.T. Anjan
Kumar said that one of the prominent reasons for road accidents in
Davangere city was bad roads and the district administration had already
initiated steps to repair the roads at a cost of Rs. 25 crore.

Inaugurating
the ‘road safety week’ organised jointly by the police and the Regional
Transport Office here today Mr. Anjan Kumar said that since the roads
were in bad shape, people were unable to strictly abide by the traffic
rules. He noted that incidents of two-wheelers meeting with accidents
were on an increase in the city because of the innumerable potholes.
Hence the district administration has resolved to give a facelift to the
roads in the city.

Similarly, an amount of Rs.11
crore had been earmarked for repairing the Pune-Bangalore highway
passing in the city, the DC said, adding that construction of a ring
road upto Bada cross would be completed soon. Once the ring road is
completed, movement of heavy vehicles such as trucks in the city could
be avoided, he said. He also disclosed that a truck terminal would be
constructed on the outskirts of the city to prevent trucks coming into
the city particularly during the day. Different public works including
construction of truck terminal would soon be taken up at a total cost of
Rs. 65 crore, he said.

Besides bad roads, there was a
lack of traffic sense among many people, the DC said, and called upon
the police and RTO officials to educate people about traffic rules. The
DC said there were more than three lakh vehicles in Davangere city and
of it more than 60 per cent were two wheelers.

The
Davangere City Corporation had bought certain equipments to discipline
the vehicular movement in the city and people would be educated about
the equipments before installation.