Speed-bumps inside Botanical Park

CONTRIBUTION TO CITY TRAFFIC DISCIPLINE SAYS COMMISSONER

The horticulture department took a bold decision and implemented speed bumps at strategic points inside Lalbaugh, Bangalore’s once renowned botanical park. The well-blended bumps are to help manage increasing pedestrian flow that is expected, after the authorities conduct identified park improvements.

On being questioned about the move, the director of the park said, “This is a strategic and proactive move that we have made. We have constantly been reading about the increasing traffic flow in the city and we realize that we too have to contribute towards its control. If this works well for us we will strongly recommend that the local municipality budget this for all the parks in the city as part of the beautification and maintenance program”

On being reminded that vehicular traffic is banned within the environs of the park, an unnamed spokesman commented, “You folks are always out to make a big issue out of nothing.”

The traffic commissioner was heard at a recent get together praising the visionary efforts of the Lalbaugh Initiative. “Once pedestrians have realized how difficult it is to speed past these bumps they will go back and drive more safely in our city roads ” he is said to have stated.