That is the government’s logic in opting for 3D paintings to be put up on roads, to act as virtual speed breakers.
“We are trying out 3D paintings used as virtual speed breakers to avoid unnecessary requirements of speed breakers,” Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Twitter on Tuesday.
The Centre will experiment with the three-dimensional painting of speed bumps on a few highways to start with. “We will test it out in a couple of highways at one or two points. If it doesn’t cause any problem of road safety, we can experiment with it further,” National Highways Authority of India Chairman Raghav Chandra told The Hindu.
Around 1.5 lakh people are killed in road accidents every year in the country and the government aims to reduce fatalities by half by 2019.
Activists have, over the years, resorted to art to express displeasure over road conditions. Such 3D speed ‘barriers’ were used in Philadelphia to campaign against rash driving.