A potholed stretch of VIP Road Kolkata: Spells of rain have damaged stretches of city roads so much that Kolkata Traffic Police has asked civic agencies — especially Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the state PWD — to repair them. Cops have sent an initial list of battered stretches to KMC. Cops said these stretches…
Pune: A group of 18 men damaged a car and a van parked on a public road in the Padmavati area around 1am on Monday.Senior inspector Vitthal Pawar of Sahakarnagar police said, “The suspects were carrying sharp weapons and were moving around the area on six two-wheelers. We have obtained CCTV footage of their movement…
Bhubaneswar: Ama Bus, which is operated by Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT), was involved in 214 minor and major accidents between Jan 2024 and May 2026 across key depots in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.Responding to an RTI application of Bhubaneswar-resident Pradeep Pradhan, CRUT revealed that Patia depot alone reported over 200 incidents resulting in fatalities, police…
Thiruvananthapuram: The regional transport office (RTO) in Thiruvananthapuram has overtaken Ernakulam in the progression of vehicle registration series for the first time since the present vehicle registration system came into force, reflecting the capital district’s sustained growth in vehicle ownership.The milestone was reached after Thiruvananthapuram RTO began issuing vehicles under KL-01 DL series, while Ernakulam…
Udupi: Udupi district police have generated 2,700 traffic violation e-challans in about 45 days, using technology-driven enforcement, and have also significantly reduced violations.The district police commissioned automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras at six key locations in the district on May 21. Since the cameras became operational, speeding by two-wheelers, three-wheelers and light motor vehicles…
Vadodara: Even in its restricted avatar, the damaged bridge continues to be one of the busiest inter-district links in central Gujarat. Around 12,000-13,000 two-wheelers and 1,300-1,500 pedestrians use the bridge every day.The bridge was reopened on April 1 exclusively for two-wheelers and pedestrians after a rare engineering exercise restored the collapsed span. Four-wheelers and heavy…
Potholes on the roads (Chandigarh – tricity story pics) Chandigarh: It hasn’t even rained too long or too heavily. It’s just as much as one would expect every year but already, roads have taken a beating. Major stretches are riddled with potholes, posing a serious risk to motorists, cyclists and pedestrians.Residents have reported crater-like potholes…
ARAI director Reji Mathai addressing the press conference Pune: People who suspect that their vehicles are facing engine performance issues because of ethanol-blended fuel should get them checked by authorised automobile dealers, said Reji Mathai, director of Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI), on Saturday.In a meeting held on Friday, automakers told ARAI that they…
MI Road pavements encroached by parked vehicles Jaipur: Pedestrians on Jaipur’s busy MI Road are being pushed off footpaths and into moving traffic as encroachments, illegally parked vehicles and utility structures choke pavements along the key commercial stretch.With little civic enforcement, shopkeepers and customers have turned walking space into parking zones, while JVVNL transformers, dustbins…
Lucknow: During a special three-day crackdown by Lucknow Traffic Police on vehicles plying without registration number plates, most violators were owners/drivers of four-wheelers. Traffic police booked 105 four-wheeler vehicles and 12 two-wheelers without registration number plates.“Vehicles without registration plates pose a serious challenge as they are difficult to trace in cases of accidents, hit-and-run incidents,…
