KARACHI: To boost highway security and implement site visitors laws, the town administration will implement a “no helmet, no entry” coverage on II Chundrigar Highway, the town’s financial centre.
Delineators have additionally been put in on the highway to handle site visitors move, addressing the excessive quantity of site visitors. Hundreds of motorcycle riders who typically disregard site visitors legal guidelines, significantly throughout rush hours, trigger accidents.
Whereas bigger autos principally keep inside their designated lanes, reckless motorbike driving stays a big difficulty.
The helmet rule, which is able to come into impact quickly, will solely apply to II Chundrigar Highway, however officers plan to increase it to different main roads within the metropolis in phases.
Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab stated that the initiative goals to stop deadly accidents, including that sporting helmets would ultimately be made necessary for motorcyclists on all essential roads in Karachi.
An alarming variety of site visitors fatalities have occurred within the metropolis this 12 months, leading to 182 deaths — 57 of which had been brought on by heavy automobile accidents. In the meantime, 2,211 individuals have been injured in accidents up to now.