Rumblers & speed breakers are banned on National Highways: RTI

Speed breakers defeat the basic objective of providing an obstruction-free high-speed facility, apart from being a safety hazard.

In response to an RTI, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has clarified that construction of rumblers and speed breakers has been banned on National Highways.

Nikhil Desai of Ponda, Goa, had submitted an RTI query highlighting the inconvenience caused by speed breakers to patients travelling in ambulances. 

“Keeping in mind the inconvenience to patients travelling in ambulances while erecting rumblers on national highway?”, Desai said in his RTI application dated February 21, 2023.

In response, the NHAI said, “There are no guidelines to erecting rumblers on NHs. In this regard, specific instructions have been issued to all Project Directors for removal of speed breakers from all NH stretches and ensuring patchless roads for road users (including ambulances).”

According to a 2016 circular from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, speed breakers should not be constructed on national highways as they defeat the basic objective of providing an obstruction-free high-speed facility, apart from being a safety hazard.

In 2020, the ministry reiterated that all speed breakers on National Highways would be removed, including those at toll booths.

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