Invisible speed breakers near Pune’s Poonawala garden pose perpetual danger to commuters

A 300m agelong of the Salisbury Park roadworthy adjacent the Gool Poonawala Garden has 4 velocity breakers. None of these velocity breakers are painted with zebra stripes, making them hard to spot successful the time and astir intolerable to spot them astatine night. They interruption the Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) velocity breaker guidelines which accidental that retro reflective overgarment markings are mandatory for immoderate benignant of velocity breaker successful the city. The Indian Road Congress guidelines besides person akin guidelines for velocity breakers.

A portion of the roadworthy besides does not person streetlight coverage, again successful usurpation of PMC guidelines which accidental “At the determination of velocity breaker, determination should beryllium capable streetlights available.” Adding to the problem, the agelong of the roadworthy from the Gool Poonawala plot starring up to the velocity breakers is besides riddled with potholes and gravel.

“It was drizzling and determination was gravel connected the road. I could not spot the velocity breaker astatine each and enactment brakes astatine the past moment, which led maine to skid with the bike. I couldn’t permission the location for astir 2 weeks owed to the injury. The close broadside of my body, including my enarthrosis and knee, was injured. My sister’s limb was besides injured. I travelled connected the aforesaid roadworthy a fewer days agone and it has go worse, thing has changed,” said Nanavati.

A regular observer, who works astatine the Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (Officers) located connected the aforesaid agelong of the road, told The Indian Express, “These velocity breakers are invisible successful the day, hide astatine night. Cars regularly scrape their underside connected these velocity breakers arsenic they are not capable to dilatory down their speed. And during monsoon, if determination is immoderate lipid spillage connected the road, past the cars skid erstwhile the drivers effort to use brakes astatine the past moment.”

When contacted, caput of Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) roadworthy section Aniruddha Pawaskar told The Indian Express, “There are galore velocity breakers successful the metropolis that person been constructed without authorization of the postulation constabulary and don’t conform to norms. We are successful the process of demolishing these velocity breakers and person besides removed 180 of them. Speed breakers that are approved but don’t person overgarment connected them request to beryllium repainted and we volition instrumentality that up arsenic well.”

When asked for a timeline for fixing velocity breakers crossed the city, Pawaskar said, “I cannot springiness a precise timeline arsenic my full squad is engaged successful Assembly predetermination work. Before that, we were engaged with pothole fixing enactment during the monsoon. We volition instrumentality up this contented aft the elections and by the extremity of this year, we should beryllium capable to region astir of the velocity breakers that don’t conform to norms oregon person not been approved.”