Stop crashes on Mumbai-Pune Expressway, demands social activist


Mumbai, Jan 19 (IANS): Renowned social worker Sindhutai Sapkal on Thursday served an eight-day ultimatum to the Maharashtra government to make travel on the accident-prone Mumbai-Pune Expressway safer, failing which she would launch an agitation.

"How many more lives must be lost? This killer expressway has already claimed thousands of lives, including celebrities, but the authorities are simply not concerned," an agitated Sapkal told media persons.

The 69-year-old social worker's anger stemmed from witnessing what could have been a major road accident near Ursi, Talegaon section, on the expressway late Wednesday night.

Though the disaster was barely averted, a shaken Sapkal who was travelling from Mumbai to Pune, stepped out of her vehicle and gave a dressing down to the IRB agency staffers manning the toll tax booths there.

"The government is collecting toll from us, yet there is no guarantee of safety of the passengers on the expressway... How many more people should be killed before you do something?" an irate Sapkal demanded.

She announced that if the government failed to take remedial action in the matter "within eight days", she would lead an agitation with thousands of people on the expressway.

 

  

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  • Anilkumar, Mangalore

    Fri, Jan 20 2017

    Main problem is because of people in India not following lane discipline. Everyone knows how to follow the rules when they go to middle east country. But here in India, it is taken for granted that :
    You can continue to change lanes without signalling
    You can continue to drive in right lane even if some one wants to overtake
    You can continue to overtake from left
    You can continue to drive heavy vehicle in right lane.

    How can you avoid accidents if there is no guarantee that someone will not change lane all of a sudden when you are driving straight??

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