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Heavy motor vehicle drivers violate two laws

By Dinesh Kamath

Above Picture: Kamothe toll plaza

NAVI MUMBAI: Two laws are being violated by the heavy motor vehicles drivers. The first law they are breaking is by avoiding paying the toll at Kamothe Toll Plaza. They are violating the second law by using the ‘No-Entry’ lane to skip Kamothe toll. They are also causing another problem. By using the ‘No Entry’ lane which is the stretch of road from Kalamboli towards Roadpali in Taloja, they are causing traffic snarls. ‘No entry’ role is imposed on the stretch since road widening work is in progress there.

The traffic policemen are having a tough time controlling these drivers of heavy vehicles. There are lot of arguments taking place between policemen and drivers. The sufferers are other motorists who have to tolerate and pay the price for all these chaos. It has become very clear that the heavy vehicle drivers are deliberately using this stretch to avoid paying the toll at Kamothe toll plaza.

The traffic police authorities are trying to work out ways and means to prevent these truck drivers from avoiding paying the toll since it causes heavy loss from the angle of government revenue.  The authorities are also contemplating changing of positions of the toll booths. They are thinking of having booths both on Mumbai lane and Panvel lane. This move, according to them, will compel the heavy vehicle drivers to pay the toll, whichever route they might go along.

Those truck drivers who manage to avoid paying toll at Kamothe are not always lucky since the traffic police are also become alert and they have managed to penalize many erring drivers. The traffic police authorities are all set to apply the necessary corrective measures and thus see to it that no heavy vehicle driver escapes from paying the toll.