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Addressing reduced road visibility

To counter reduced visibility due to foggy conditions on the National Highways during the winter season, NHAI is to take mitigation measures under two heads of ‘Engineering’ and ‘Safety Awareness’. The first one includes reinstalling missing/damaged road signs, rectifying faded or inadequate pavement markings, enhance visibility of safety devices by providing reflective markers, median markers, etc., providing transverse bar markings in habitations and accident-prone locations, providing solar blinkers on the median openings and replacement of damaged hazard marker signs at diverging & merging locations.

The ‘Safety Awareness’ steps will include usage of Variable Message Signs use of Public Address System, electronic billboards, radio, and social media for public service announcements as well as distribution of safety awareness pamphlets on Toll Plazas & Wayside Amenities during foggy conditions and installation of reflective tapes on full width of vehicles on the highways. Night-time highway inspection on regular basis by NHAI team, deploying Highway Patrol vehicles near dense foggy stretches, guiding traffic when needed and conducting joint drills with traffic police are some of the initiatives being planned.

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