Highways in Odisha to be 100 per cent road signage compliant

BHUBANESWAR: In a bid to reduce accidents in Odisha, the Commerce and Transport department has planned to make the highways in the State 100 per cent road signage compliant. Stating that road mishap fatalities can be prevented to a great extent by improving the road infrastructure, sources in the Transport department said a road signage audit will soon be launched in the State and markings would be put up on State/National Highways along 3,000 km in the first phase.

Faulty road signage and signals are often responsible for massive traffic jams and accidents. Many times road signs are wrongly placed, hidden, bungled, missing or are not accurate. The department is making efforts to identify faulty road signage/markings and rectify them. As part of the initiative, a sample audit of road signage and markings was recently conducted with the help of experts on State Highway – 10 (Biju Expressway) along a 50 km stretch between Deokaranpur and Keseibahal in Sundargarh district.