The Motor Vehicles department (MVD) has finally decided to crack the whip, faced with a barrage of complaints from motorists, pedestrians, traders, and others about young motorbike riders converting the Edappally-Aroor bypass into a racing track at night.
This reckless practice had been attributed to “inadequate” patrol by the MVD and the police in the congested 17-km corridor. It had been reported earlier that the stretch that is used by a whopping one lakh passenger car units (PCUs) daily, does not have Artificial Intelligence-enabled cameras that were introduced in highway corridors in the State.
“It has come to our notice that such youths zoom around on motorbikes, creating deafening noise and scaring other road users, mostly between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. MVD personnel will be deployed on the stretch at night once they return from Sabarimala duty,” said a senior official of the department.
