Telangana Municipal Administration Minister KR Rama Rao is impressed with Mumbai police for coming up an innovative method to tackle infamous honking menace. Taking to Twitter, he wrote, “Let’s get this done in our Hyderabad too. Need of the hour,” sharing the video of Mumbai police.
The video shows, Mumbai police putting up ‘punishing signals’. They connected decibel meters to a few signal poles. “If the decibel levels went over 85 dB, the signal would reset and stay red for longer,” says the Mumbai police video. “Honk more wait more’ and ‘Feel free to honk if you don’t mind waiting’ are the taglines of Mumbai police’s campaign.
Netizens welcomed the proposal by KTR, who is the son of Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao. They hoped the move would go a long way in curbing the menace of unnecessary honking. However, there were suggestions for him to first focus on improving the road conditions, providing road-over-bridges for pedestrians, ensure proper functioning of the signals and tackle the problem of parking.
