A Bid To Make Night Travel Safer For Women
Officials also provided women with information about the 112 emergency response number and 1090 women’s helpline, asking them not to hesitate to seek assistance in case of harassment, insecurity or an emergency.
“At the Purvanchal Expressway, Agra Expressway, Itaunja and Nigohan toll plazas, traffic police teams spoke to women passengers about their journey, whether they had faced any inconvenience or unsafe situation on the way and whether they knew how to seek police assistance if required,” the DCP added. The initiative comes amid a series of road-rage incidents involving women in different cities, including a recent case in Gurugram in which a woman biker was allegedly chased and hit by a car. Lucknow: With recent road-rage incidents involving women triggering renewed concerns over their safety on the road, Lucknow traffic police has taken its safety outreach beyond checking vehicles and traffic violations, with officers now stopping at toll plazas to ask women travellers a more basic question: Was your journey safe? The Gurugram incident has brought particular attention to the vulnerability of women riders during confrontations on the road. In that case, the woman alleged that a car followed her before hitting her motorcycle; police subsequently added an attempt-to-murder charge to the FIR. Against this backdrop, the traffic police’s toll-plaza intervention places emphasis on an aspect that routine vehicle checking may not capture, the passenger’s experience of safety during a journey.
The traffic police on Saturday -Sunday night began a special ‘Meet & Greet’ initiative at four toll plazas around Lucknow, combining vehicle checks with direct conversations with women travelling at night.
