The new signs being installed by the PWD ahead of the Games will not be giving the correct information in so far as the speed limits are concerned on certain stretches of the city.
According to the Delhi traffic police rules, the maximum speed for cars and other such vehicles on most of the roads in the city is 50 km per hour (kmph). However, on at least 18 stretches the speed limit has been increased to 60 kmph. The new speed limits and the corresponding stretches were publicised on the Delhi traffic police website well over a couple of months ago. However, the PWD did not seem to have picked the cue.
Some of the roads on which the traffic police had allowed 60 kmph maximum speed are: NH 24 (from Millennium Park to Ghazipur border), Outer Ring Road (from Modi Mill flyover to Olof Palme Marg-NH 8 crossing via Munirka), NH 8 (from Parade Road/Gurgaon Road crossing to Delhi-Gurgaon border) and others. At least 18 stretches, a large number of them being on the Ring Road, have 60 kmph speed limit for cars and other such vehicles. However, the PWD seems oblivious.
“Even though the difference is apparently only of about 10 kmph, it was done after a proper assessment and keeping in view the requirements of new age cars,” said a traffic police official. No official from the PWD, which has undertaken the sign project at a cost of more than Rs 70 crores, could be contacted for the agency’s version.