PEDESTRIAN SAFETY FOR PANAJIContents

• Goal -> 2

• Current Situation -> 3

• Background Information -> 4,5,6

• Residents’ Views -> 7, 8, 9, 10

• Some Tasks Identified -> 11, 12

• Achieving The Goal -> 13

• A Change in Mindset -> 14, 15

Goal

Increasing pedestrian safety on DB Road &the "big road" connecting Caranzalem to Taligao

Current SituationA lot of public money is spent on infrastructure development, but little thought is given to pedestrian safety.

There have been

deadly accidentson the Taligao-Caranzalem Link Road as well as on Dayanand Bandodkar Road

Background Information

Pedestrians are Vulnerable Road Users

In some countries, over half of all road deaths are caused by collisions between vehicles and pedestrians.

Source: http://toolkit.irap.org

Background Information

Risk Factors Causing Pedestrian Accidents

The chances of a pedestrian surviving an impact with a motorised vehicle reduces dramatically above 30 km/h, and even at lower speeds than this, serious harm can be caused.

Source: http://toolkit.irap.org

SPEED

KILLS

Background Information

Speed Reducing Treatments

Speed management techniques aim at persuading drivers to adopt safe speeds : --> police enforcement, --> driver education, --> speed limits, and --> engineering treatments

Engineering treatments include: --> Speed humps / raised platforms --> Gateway treatment --> Roundabouts -- > Road narrowings and treatments at curves

Current Situation On DB Road, pedestrian crossing signs don’t exist

Current Situation:

Even at important junctions like Patto bus-stand and market, pedestrian signals are not in place

Note: The white car is parked right in front of a zebra-crossing sign

Some Tasks Identified – Immediate Tasks• Ask the Traffic Authorities to

install "Zebra crossing" road markings (where absent) & "pedestrian crossing” signs

• Vehicles should not be permitted to wait idle near zebra crossing. Introduce regulation to implement the no-waiting directive.

• (desirable) Introduce speed breaker / raised platform at crossing spots

Estimated cost: Low for all of the above activities

Some Tasks Identified – Long-Run Tasks

• Introduce signals for pedestrian crossing at crossing spots

Estimated Cost: Medium to High

• Make pedestrian pavements barrier-free (A barrier free road is one where it would be possible to move a wheelchair smoothly and without lifting it off the road. Currently all out pavements have sharp edges at the end of a block)Estimated Cost: Medium

Achieving the Goal Ask traffic department authority: why were the signs not installed?(if they are supposed to have been installed, please put them in place)

Measures to "press the traffic department in action": 1. Pedestrian safety activities to attract media attention Make a few "pedestrian crossing" signs according to correct dimensions. At appropriate places close to the pedestrian crossing spots, volunteers hold these signs.

2. Screening pedestrian safety documentary