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The construction of unmarked speed breakers poses a health hazard for motorcyclists and cars alike. Such unmarked speed breakers line the main road leading from Korangi to the Clifton Sea.
Motorists as well as cyclists only become aware of the speed breakers when it is too late and are badly jolted, if they are travelling at high speed or even otherwise.
Motorcyclists risk being thrown off their bikes and being crushed if there are other cars nearby, while cars at high speed are known to have lost control after hitting such high speed breakers.
These are even more dangerous at night when visibility is less. As usual these speed breakers creep up overnight without a warning sign of the additional new speed breaker.
Speed breakers should be constructed according to recommended size and shape not in the slap-dash manner that they are thrown up.
They should be clearly delineated by cat's eyes so that motorist's become aware of their presence and slow down in time. Damage to cars as well as injuries will thus be reduced.
Rather than building speed breakers the government should try and control those guilty of reckless driving which are buses and truck-owners who ply their vehicles with such wanton abandon on main thoroughfares, zigzagging their dangerously across the roads.
The traffic police just do not seem to notice them and they stop right on or after turnings, without warning, posing a danger to vehicles behind them.
Instead to encourage road-safety, the traffic police should have proper bus stops built where only the buses should stop, not anywhere they feel like, even in the middle of the road.
Violating vehicles should be fined and the buses must not continue using roads where they are not allowed. If the police can be so efficient about traffic-safety in front of the American Embassy, it can surely do the same in other areas.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2004

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