Kolkata: Traffic cops have asked for the installation of streetlights and crash barriers on Basanti Highway after three accidents recently. In the two accidents, a biker and a driver lost their lives while another biker was critically injured in the third accident. Total fatalities on this 16km stretch stand at nine this year so far. Cops have also proposed the setting up of bus shelters on this stretch.
\n\u201cWe are increasing the deployment of cops and at the same time, trying to expedite some preventive measures that are already in the pipeline and in various stages of implementation,\u201d said DC (traffic-south), Atul V.
\nEarlier this year, when the commissioner of Kolkata Police, Soumen Mitra, had inspected the highway, he suggested that streetlights be installed on this stretch for the safety of motorists and bikers. After a series of meetings were held with PWD and South 24 Parganas district officials, the illumination work began. However, cops at Tiljala traffic guard said that a lot of work is still pending on the highway. The stretch that leads to the Sector VI Industrial Township (Bantala special economic zone) will be illuminated first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kolkata: Traffic cops have asked for the installation of streetlights and crash barriers on Basanti Highway after three accidents recently. In the two accidents, a biker and a driver lost their lives while another biker was critically injured in the third accident. Total fatalities on this 16km stretch stand at nine this year so far. Cops have also proposed the setting up of bus shelters on this stretch. \u201cWe are increasing the deployment of cops and at the same time, trying to expedite some preventive measures that are already in the pipeline and in various stages of implementation,\u201d said DC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}