Traffic Police departments of the country are doing some really nice efforts these days to make the people abide by the rules. There’s a huge gap between police and public that needs to be filled and the cops are doing it by coming online.
We’ve already seen how the police departments of some major states have made their presence felt online. They keep on coming with unique and interesting social posts to entertain people and at the same time give them an important message.
Traffic police department of Pune recently did an experiment to find if road-rashing is worth taking the risk. They got two bike drivers and gave them different instructions to follow while covering a distance of 10 km. While one driver was told to follow all the traffic rules religiously the other one was told to reach the destination at the earliest.
Interestingly, the time difference between both bikers was just 4 mins.
Deputy Commissioner of Pune took to Twitter and posted about the experiment-
Dear all
Did a small experiment 2day. Sent 2 bikers on 2 same company bikes frm katraj to s.nagar(10km), one was told to do whatever and reach at the earliest n other was asked to religiously follow traffic rules. Travel time diff ws 4mins.
IS IT WORTH RISKING LIFE FOR 4 MINS???
Dear all
Did a small experiment 2day. Sent 2 bikers on 2 same company bikes frm katraj to s.nagar(10km), one was told to do whatever and reach at the earliest n other was asked to religiously follow traffic rules. Travel time diff ws 4mins.
IS IT WORTH RISKING LIFE FOR 4 MINS??? pic.twitter.com/SwYa8EDZpi— Tejaswi Satpute (@TejaswiSatpute) September 4, 2018
The tweet of Tejaswi went viral soon and started getting a lot of reactions. Here’s how people reacted-
#1
How to enforce traffic rules
1. Allow people to upload Videos/Photos of traffic rules violators on some web/app platform.
2. The violators should be fined and also make them pass a basic traffic rules exam again.
3. Update the forum with the status of the violators.— Yogesh Powar | योगेश पोवार (@yogeshpowar) September 5, 2018
#2
https://twitter.com/MadhukarMazire/status/1037027343108321281
#3
The experiment is flawed. Nobody wants to reach office early. Try it the other way – when returning from office to home and see the difference 😄
— Kaustubh (@___kaustubh) September 5, 2018
#4
Similar experiment was done for the Mumbai-Pune Expressway some years ago, and the difference was a mere 9 min between overspeeding and driving within speed limit, for the entire distance between Pune and Mumbai.
— Anagha Paranjape-Purohit (@anaghapp) September 5, 2018
#5
Jai hind
I have already written many times on the subject to many channels also. Many accidents occur due to non following traffic rules and regulations. I support your efforts and agree 💯 percent. On every speedo meters some colour code are giving as in attached photo pic.twitter.com/sveBbGxKPg— Vikramjit P Datta भारतीय 🇮🇳 (@DattaVikramjit) September 5, 2018
#6
great initiative – keep it up
— Pushkar Sane (@pushkarsane) September 5, 2018
#7
Yaa. PUNE's traffic is such that even if ASHWAMEDH runs on Pune roads… He will get slowed down..#punetraffic
— BHUVANESH KANKANI (@BhuvanKankani) September 5, 2018
#8
Good experiment. Thank you. Heard last two days were good smooth at HInjewadi and experience it on Aundh to Yerwada too
— Manoj Deshpande (@MJDeshpande) September 5, 2018
#9
https://twitter.com/Shahpratikd/status/1037180210993684481
Ahmedabad Police also quoted the tweet and posted-
Why so much hurry? Experiment shows just 4 min. delay if you obey traffic rules. So much risk just to have 2 bowls of 2-minute noodles! Which one are you? #RoadSafety
Why so much hurry? Experiment shows just 4 min. delay if you obey traffic rules. So much risk just to have 2 bowls of 2-minute noodles! Which one are you? #RoadSafety https://t.co/U5VjxsXH9X
— Ahmedabad Police અમદાવાદ પોલીસ (@AhmedabadPolice) September 5, 2018
Isn’t that amazing?