Jesse Ramdeo

Steps have been tak­en to boost safe­ty mea­sures at the in­ter­sec­tion of Ma­coya Road and the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route in Tu­na­puna, af­ter a re­cent spate of ac­ci­dents. The move fol­lowed an as­sur­ance of im­prove­ments by Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan less than a week ago, dur­ing a site vis­it on the ba­sis of the con­cerns raised about ve­hic­u­lar col­li­sions.

Yes­ter­day morn­ing, work­men in­stalled ad­di­tion­al sig­nage at the in­ter­sec­tion and re­paint­ed pave­ment mark­ings.

Traf­fic sig­nal bulbs were changed to light-emit­ting diodes (LEDs) for bet­ter il­lu­mi­na­tion.

Sinanan had pre­vi­ous­ly stat­ed that the min­istry would con­duct sev­er­al ex­er­cis­es to aug­ment ex­ist­ing safe­ty fea­tures, in­clud­ing the place­ment of ad­di­tion­al traf­fic con­trol de­vices, in­for­ma­tive and reg­u­la­to­ry sig­nage and rum­ble strips, a fea­ture that alerts dri­vers by send­ing a tac­tile vi­bra­tion and rum­bling sound through the ve­hi­cle.

While tour­ing the area re­cent­ly, Sinanan rub­bished claims that the in­crease in ac­ci­dents, some of which have been cap­tured and shared on so­cial me­dia, was the re­sult of the in­ter­sec­tion be­ing ‘blight’, say­ing in­stead they were pri­mar­i­ly a re­sult of hu­man er­ror.

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