Wazeer Baloch
Road being the major mode of transportation in Pakistan experiences numerous accidents on daily basis.
Before executing a route for public transport or operation purposes following three aspects must be ensured.
Safe road design is carried out by proper understanding of technical personnel which include efficient operation of route through well alignment of Center line of the road, Safe design of curves, sufficient super elevations, non-skid road surface, sufficient road width specially in case of single carriageways (RCD is one of them), provision of surface markings, well understandable sign boards and safety hardware or guardrails specially on curves to avoid tracking out of vehicles.
After proper design by professionals (Engineers), now it’s up to users of road how they use road, how they follow messages given through Surface markings and Road signs. Integrity of road users is the prime factor. They should honestly follow the road signs and direction given.
Moreover, after proper design and installments of user’s facilities along entire length now it becomes essential to enforce strict laws for “safe and efficient” operation of vehicular movement.
Above mentioned description indicates the technical views on efficient operation. Now take a light look on National Highway N25 or RCD. Through my personal observation highway is fully engineered but the users (Specially Bus drivers) ignore the regulatory measures installed on highway. The very first rule of this highway is limited speed of 90 km per hour on straight and 30 to 50 km per hour on curves but it’s being disobeyed or not seemed to be enforced; secondly drivers don’t pay a tiny attention on sign boards which are mediums of communication between Engineers and Users.
This disobedience by users results in loss of innocent’s lives which can only be controlled by serious accountability and rule violation fines through various agencies such as motorway patrolling police.
Drugged drivers through this route is another major factor of accidents, drugs infected and unskilled drivers must be heavily charged.
Every scientific advancement is accompanied by a drawback, road accidents can’t be removed completely but mitigated at a great extent by ensuring all technical aspects, Educating users about road rules and enforcing the made rules
Disclaimer: Views expressed in this article are those of the author and Balochistan Voices not necessarily agrees with them.
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