SMD screens installed to raise traffic awareness

Traffic police seek to enforce discipline on roads to ensure citizens' safety

ISLAMABAD:

The Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) has introduced special measures to enforce traffic discipline on roads and to enhance traffic safety awareness among road users. As part of these efforts, SMD screens are being installed on traffic police float to effectively communicate traffic rules and regulations.

Traffic police float with SMD screens are delivering messages to the road users and special announcements about road safety tips are being made at important boulevards, chowks, commercial centres and main avenues of the city. During the last 24 hours, the citizens at sectors G-7, G-9, G-10, F-7 and F-10 were educated about traffic rules.

Chief Traffic Officer Syed Mustafa Tanveer said that national songs are played on SMD screens of floats while trained and experienced staff of ITP disseminated messages related to road safety on it.

It is to mention that citizens were provided awareness about traffic rules related to bike riding, pedestrians’ rights, driving on round-about, use of seat belts and risks of amateur driving as well as using fancy and non-pattern number plates and use of mobile phones during driving.

Chief Traffic Officer said that the purpose of this campaign was to ensure better traffic discipline through the cooperation of citizens and create traffic sense among them. ITP is striving hard to ensure the safety of citizens and to reduce the number of traffic accidents by ensuring a safe road environment in the city.

Citizens are appealed to cooperate with the traffic police by obeying rules to protect themselves and others from accidents, he maintained.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 17^th, 2023.