We have expressed alarm over traffic deaths in Mathura district and especially on the Yamuna Expressway a couple of times over the past year. Now the UP Traffic Dep’t has released figures showing the almost doubling of deaths on the Expressway in just the last two years. According to the spokesman for the Dep’t, the main reason is speeding. This will not be a great surprise to the residents of Vrindavan, one of the places to which these people are speeding towards.
Those of us who think of Vrindavan as a human sanctuary have long recognized that you cannot buy a ticket to enter Vrindavan. But one thing is certain, when the speeding culture invades Vrindavan, it ceases to be a human sanctuary. The speeding civilization does not know where it is going, but it wants to get there faster and it wants everyone else to get out of the way.
This is one of the reasons why we at Vrindavan Today support a severe curtailing of vehicular traffic in at least certain parts of the town, i.e, those where there is the most pedestrian traffic. But those who are speeding on motorcycles, abusing the use of horns, should be punished with fines. There is no reason that this aggressive behavior of drivers should be tolerated.
It has recently been reported that there will be an increased presence of traffic police in Vrindavan: Let them punish speeders, reckless drivers, double parkers, impatient honkers and other variations on general antisocial behavior when sitting behind a wheel with fines. Put up a few hoardings to warn everyone, local or outsider, that there will be no mercy to those who think that sitting on top of an internal combustion engine gives them some license to disturb the sacred atmosphere of Vrindavan Dham.
Make the laws and enforce them.
Noida, 2016.06.16 (TOI): The Uttar Pradesh traffic department on Tuesday released the comparative data of fatalities at Yamuna Expressway, which shows an overall 98% rise in deaths in 2014 and 2015. A total of 801 deaths were reported in 2014, which increased to 1585 in 2015, at the 165-km-long Yamuna Expressway, built as a symbol of modern development.
The Expressway connects five districts – Gautam Budh Nagar, Aligarh, Mathura, Hathras and Agra. Aligarh has topped the fatalities in two years as per the traffic department’s data. The city has shown 365% increase in deaths in the last two years. The traffic department had recorded a total of 85 deaths in 2014, which increased to 396 in 2015.
This was followed by Agra which recorded 73% rise in deaths. Agra – The city of Taj – recorded a total of 211 deaths in 2014, which increased to 366 the following year.
Anil Agarwal, ADG Traffic, Uttar Pradesh, said that the Gautam Budh Nagar district recorded 67% rise in the deaths at the Yamuna Expressway. In 2014, Noida had recorded a total of 198 deaths which rose to 331 in 2015.
The traffic department also released separate data of top ten districts where more accidents and fatalities took place in 2015. The data shows that Kanpur topped the list with 655 deaths and 1085 injured in 1479 accidents. This was followed by Aligarh which recorded 609 fatalities and 639 injured in 759 accidents. Lucknow came third with 585 deaths and 874 injured in 1388 accidents.
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