After Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath gave orders to review the upcoming road safety measures, a team of government officials visited the Yamuna Expressway on Friday.
The officers of the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA), CEO Arun Vir Singh, additional ACEO Monika Rani, ACEO Ravinder Singh along with senior officials of Jaypee Infratech visited the expressway. They inspected the works recommended by the IIT Delhi safety audit.
It was observed that safety related work was complete except for installing guardrails on both sides of the medium of the Yamuna Expressway.
CM Adityanath had issued instructions to bring down road accidents in the state.
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The YEIDA said pamphlets carrying instructions for a safe journey would be distributed to the road users. The pamphlets would be more attractive and be briefly informative with bigger font size.
It also called for increasing the number of speed cameras on the expressway to 10 so that more speeding vehicles flouting norms can be caught. The number of laser speed guns to be increased.
A report on the average speed of vehicles between toll plazas will be shared with the police and the RTO for ensuring challans of erring drivers.
The Yamuna Expressway has witnessed at least 1,700 road crashes since 2018 which claimed more than 450 lives and left over 3,000 injured, according to official figures.
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