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Mumbai anti-honking experiment:
From Youtube:
HONK MORE WAIT MORE | "📯📯"| Brilliant Idea, Mumbai Traffic Police Implemented against Honking
Manthan Patil
Published on Jan 31, 2020
According to this new concept, if the decibel level due to honking exceeds a certain level, then the waiting time at the traffic signal is increased automatically. That said, the more people honk, the more they will have to wait at the traffic signal that in turn will annoy them even more.
Manthan Patil
Published on Jan 31, 2020
According to this new concept, if the decibel level due to honking exceeds a certain level, then the waiting time at the traffic signal is increased automatically. That said, the more people honk, the more they will have to wait at the traffic signal that in turn will annoy them even more.
From https://weather.com/en-IN/india/news/news/2020-02-01-honk-more-wait-more-mumbai-traffic-police-punishing-signal
Honk More, Wait More: Mumbai Traffic Police Introduce the Punishing Signal to Curb Noise Pollution
By Quaid Najmi | IANS 18 hours ago TWC India
For the Mumbai's perpetual honkers, who love to blare the horns of their vehicles even when the traffic signal is red, the Mumbai Traffic Police has quietly come up with an unique initiative to discipline them in order to curb the alarming rise in the noise pollution levels in the country's commercial capital.
From Friday (January 31, 2020), it has installed decibel meters at certain select but heavy traffic signals to deter the habitual honkers through a campaign named 'The Punishing Signal'.
Joint Police Commissioner (Traffic) Madhukar Pandey said that the decibel monitors are connected to traffic signals around the island city, and when the cacophony exceeds the dangerous 85-decibel mark due to needless honking, the signal timer resets, entailing a double waiting time for all vehicles.
Thus, those who 'honk more, wait more', is the punishing message that is flashed at such noisy signals, making the honkers go bonkers!
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By Quaid Najmi | IANS 18 hours ago TWC India
For the Mumbai's perpetual honkers, who love to blare the horns of their vehicles even when the traffic signal is red, the Mumbai Traffic Police has quietly come up with an unique initiative to discipline them in order to curb the alarming rise in the noise pollution levels in the country's commercial capital.
From Friday (January 31, 2020), it has installed decibel meters at certain select but heavy traffic signals to deter the habitual honkers through a campaign named 'The Punishing Signal'.
Joint Police Commissioner (Traffic) Madhukar Pandey said that the decibel monitors are connected to traffic signals around the island city, and when the cacophony exceeds the dangerous 85-decibel mark due to needless honking, the signal timer resets, entailing a double waiting time for all vehicles.
Thus, those who 'honk more, wait more', is the punishing message that is flashed at such noisy signals, making the honkers go bonkers!
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