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To amended information connected Hyderabad’s Nehru Outer Ring Road (ORR), a month-long nationalist consciousness run titled ‘No Parking connected ORR’has been launched. The inaugural aims to crook the 158-kilometre expressway into a zero-fatality corridor by educating motorists astir the dangers of stopping oregon parking connected the high-speed route.
The campaign, supported by Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs), is simply a associated effort by IRB Golconda Expressway Pvt. Ltd., successful collaboration with the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA), Traffic Police, and Hyderabad Growth Corridor Ltd. (HGCL), to beforehand harmless and liable driving.
Designed for uninterrupted question astatine speeds of up to 120 km/hour, the ORR has precocious witnessed an summation successful superior accidents involving vehicles parked connected shoulders oregon exigency lanes. Safety officials person identified specified amerciable parking, often involving dense trucks and lorries without hazard lights oregon reflective warnings arsenic a large origin of avoidable collisions.
“The Outer Ring Road is meant for smooth, high-speed transit, not for stopping oregon parking,” said HGCL main wide manager astatine the motorboat event. “Many of the accidents we analyse stem from illegally parked vehicles. Through this campaign, we privation each motorist to recognize that adjacent a momentary halt connected the ORR tin outgo lives. Safety indispensable ever instrumentality precedence implicit convenience.”
Echoing this sentiment, IRB Golconda Expressway manager said, “The ORR symbolises Hyderabad’s maturation and connectivity. However, misuse of the corridor done amerciable parking has made it a imaginable information zone.”
As portion of the campaign, the organisers volition clasp consciousness drives, integer outreach programmes and interactive sessions with commercialized drivers, logistics operators and backstage motorists. Fuel stations adjacent cardinal ORR intersections volition show ‘No Parking connected ORR’ and ‘No Fuel connected ORR’ messages arsenic reminders for drivers earlier they participate the expressway. The inaugural volition besides reenforce the prohibition connected two- and three-wheelers connected the corridor.
