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Rumbler strips more nuisance than road safety measure

The ideal way to control traffic and safety of pedestrians  is by traffic lights and cameras to check on errant drivers 

In Goa but now the highways are being  decorated with rumbler strips.

This cure is worst than the disease.  The rumbler strips damage vehicles and injuries to spinal chord and pregnant women and are scientifically  pronounced as positive  health hazzard. The nuisance of intolerable, rattling sounds vibrating structures and disturbing peace of elderly, sick  is 24x7.The protection needed is for certain peak  hours. Overtaking dangerously on rumbler strips is  another more dangerous  ourcome.The height has to be  reduced as it serves no purpose for safety to riders or vehicles.

The appeals to  GSPC board to measure  the decibels is falling on deaf ears inspite of continous reminders to act even on payment of service.There is much to gain by unfailingly  visiting music  festivals to monitor and enforce regulations. The police too piously visit dance halls . PWD opines that police must take note of rumbler sound  nuisance. 

At Dandeavaddo on NH 66,  mass protests, appeals to PWD, traffic  control, CM, Deputy Collector, signature campaigns are treated with impunity with the officials refusing to visit the site and assure themselves  of nuisance  these rumblers are to elderly sick senior citizens.The sound does not disperse as the residences are in close proximity with sound felt over a radius of 150 metres and beyond.



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Water leakage from loaded tankers must be stopped

STEPHEN DIAS, Dona Paula
Published Mar 4, 2023, 10:41 PM IST
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No doubt what a letter writer has said and published in local papers is very true about the leakage of water from tankers especially while they are climbing the slope and accidents have taken place.  I saw many two wheelers have slipped and fallen down  from my house at Dona Paula opposite to our NIO Staff quarters  while they were driving on this slope. These tankers have nowadays increased their trips since there is a shortage of water in the taluka but do…

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