DHAKA: In a latest development to the city’s traffic system, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has launched an atypical initiative in a bid to reduce the city dwellers’ tendency to violate traffic rules.

All will go well unless one takes ride via wrong side. The new device, set up on the road, will not allow the vehicle to cross its line. Tyre of a vehicle will get puncture when it will come to contact with the devices and cross it from opposite direction.

DMP Traffic Division (south) on Friday installed a type of preventive devices on three spots in the city. Those devices have been set up on the road surface diagonally, which have long iron sharpen spikes on its top that would puncture vehicle’s tyres.

Although the decision to set up the retractable spikes came a month ago but DMP moved somewhat silently as it apparently failed to prevent the traffic rule violations across the city.

The rules violator will also have to pay fine much like “to add insult in injuries”.

At the primary stage, the devices have been installed on the roads, stretching from Rupshi Bangla Hotel to Kakrail mosque – opposite to Arunodaya Gate –, near government guest house Sugondha and in front of Jamuna, now Foreign Service Academy.

 Hassan Mahmud Khandaker, Inspector General of Police, inaugurated the function of the devices at 11:00am.

Traffic Division (south) additional commissioner (admin) Kazi Akter Hossain told banglanews, “Many vehicles take wrong side on the road, stretching from Rupsohi Bangla Hotel to Kakrail mosque and accident took place.”

“These devices have been set up to stop vehicle plying on wrong side,” Akter added.

BDST: 1222 HRS MAY 23, 2014