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Written Assignment (NOME)
Prose: Light in the Night
QI.) Answer the following questions in one sentence:
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Claire Horsburgh
3 Marks
1. How was the appearance of the city on most of ordinary and common nights?
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2. Who would help to make the routes safer?
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3. What dominated modern streets?
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QIL.) Rearrange the alphabets to form a word which matches the meaning.2 Marks
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2. Increased - wgre
3. Positioned - nelid
4. Bundle of fibres- sickw
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Explanation:
Q1. Because it locks like no human are present on the earth
Q2 Here are some things that can be done to make the city’s roads safer :
1. Decongest the road
According to a Bengaluru City Traffic Police report, there are more than 1.5 million vehicles on the road. Of this, personal vehicles alone make up for 90% of the total vehicular traffic. A majority of these vehicles only carry between 1 and 3 people. While cars and bikes may not take up a great deal of space, their multitude is certainly a problem.
While using public transportation or carpooling may seem like the obvious solution to decongesting roads, Bengaluru may just need something more radical. China imposed odd-even driving restrictions in a bid to reduce air pollution and decongest the roads, during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In March 2015, Paris imposed similar restrictions to combat air pollution, making public transportation free on those days for commuters. Delhi too introduced the odd-even formula on January 1st for a two-week period to curb pollution; the lovely side-effect is that roads are relatively traffic-free, and people are able commute quicker. Even in towns like Mangaluru, odd-even restrictions are in place for select roads with respect to parking. Would something like this work in Bengaluru?
2. Heavier fines for traffic violations
Though there are ample signs calling out various messages like ‘Mind your lane’, ‘Do not drink and drive’, ‘Speed limit 50 km’, etc, oftentimes people ignore them. Currently the fine for dangerous driving ranges between Rs 300 to 500. Drivers need to cough up Rs 300 for speeding and a paltry Rs 100 for using the phone while behind the wheel.
As of now, there is little to no incentive to follow traffic laws with such low fines, especially for drivers with cash to spare. An increase in fine amounts could perhaps act as reason enough for drivers to follow the traffic laws.
3. Curb the drunken driving menace
With Bengaluru’s nightlife getting a new lease of life with the 1 am extension on weekends, the police have upped their checking as well. If an individual has consumed more alcohol than the permissible limit, he/she can be fined up to Rs 2,000 or face six months imprisonment for his/her first offense. The officers are NOT allowed to collect spot fines for drunken driving. However, many a time, offenders get away by bribing the police. This calls for a change on the part of the police, as well as those who drink and drive.
In countries like Germany, getting caught behind the wheel when drunk can most certainly land one in jail, if only for a night. There is also a hefty fine to be paid. The threat of prison time, which may be more of an incentive to not drink, is hardly enforced in Bengaluru.
Our police could perhaps look to Chennai for inspiration. In 2013, Zara, a popular nightclub in Chennai in association with the Chennai traffic police, rolled out a campaign called ‘Drink and get driven’. Drunk drivers who had given their car for valet parking, found Yama, the God of Death from Hindu mythology, waiting in their backseat. Most of them opted to use the drivers-for-hire service following that.
4. Encourage good driving habits
Young drivers quickly abandon their knowledge of traffic laws and follow the poor example of older, more experienced drivers, to reach where they want quickly, with lane weaving, incessant honking, and reckless driving. In order to change the habits of current drivers and end the cycle,Positive Strokes Initiative suggests good driving habits need to be reinforced with positive responses. Positive Strokes suggests that traffic be monitored, and young volunteers take note of Bengaluru’s safe drivers.
5. Utilise technology on the roads
In this Silicon Valley, there doesn’t seem to be a big technological development when it comes to road safety. The use of speed cameras has had huge impacts on the number of accidents in other countries. Bengaluru could install such cameras to monitor the overtaking on pathways by motorists, speeding, and perhaps even curb jumping at signals.
Similarly apps can be used to spot potholes. This is currently being experimented by various groups in the city.
6. Innovative road designs
According to behavioral architectes, FinalMile, much of the issues with dangers on the road stem from human error. FinalMile aims to solve safety issues using effective techniques that deal with the driver instead of the road. One example is the diagonal speed bump. This speed bump, which runs diagonal to the road, rather than perpendicular, forces the attention of the driver back onto the road by causing the car to sway from side to side while passing over the speed bump.
Other technologies, like optical illusions, have been proven to slow down drivers and reduce accidents in dangerous
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