Multiple speed-breakers
M. Bazlur Rahman, Ex Addl. C.E. RHD, Uttara, Dhaka
I would like to draw your kind attention to the potential traffic hazard points recently created by construction of a series of speed-breakers on the Airport Road which has a high traffic density. There are as many as 9 (nine) such multiple speed- breakers on both sides of the road. The intention is to reduce the speed so that accident may not happen. However, these spots have become potential traffic hazard points for the following reasons:i) Nowhere in the world are such multiple speed-breakers erected on a highway having a high density of traffic. ii) The intention is to lower down the speed; but trucks and buses do not require to do so. They simply just pass over the 'speed-breakers' at high speed. It is only the small cars with little weight which are required to slow down with the probability that some vehicles may hit them from behind. iii) Suppose, a car, traveling at a speed of 60km per hour, all of a sudden notices the existence of these multiple speed-breakers (normally these are unexpected on a highway) &presses the brake. Then the vehicle following it at a normal speed may hit it from behind. iv) In Bangladesh, 15 people are killed on an average every day in road accidents, and let's not increase this number by making wrong moves.
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