Wailing police sirens are a thing of the past. At least if it depends on Nitin Gadkari, the Indian Minister of Transport.
Indian Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari hates traffic noise. And anyone who has already been to India will undoubtedly understand what he means. The road network is not at all equipped for the gigantic amount of cars and the drivers do not pay attention to the traffic rules, so that the streets have something of a jungle. An enormously loud jungle, because the ether is filled by the deafening sound of thousands of horns and other bells.
The average Indian hardly hears those horn serenades, but for Nitin Gadkari they are an eyesore. That is why the Indian Minister of Transport is working on a regulation that bans honking horns. He doesn’t want to get rid of them completely, but replace them with traditional music.
And that’s only the first step, because after the horns of the regular cars, Minister Gadkari also targets the blaring sirens of the fire brigade, the police and the hospital transport. Because it is unnecessarily loud, because nobody is going to step aside anyway… Here too he argues for traditional music as an alternative.
Source: The Hindu via Radio 1
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