One needs to install speed-calming strips (‘cats-eyes’) every 3-4 km and closing down illegal u-turns should be strictly enforced. One often sees heavy vehicles on the right, they should ply on the left allowing lighter vehicles to go past. We need to cut vegetation at sharp turns to improve visibility.

International standards may have rest areas for drivers, especially truck drivers, every 40 km on both carriageways. People may laugh this off as Utopian, but it is attention to detail that really makes infrastructure world class. It is not enough to have an international class road. The facilities that go with roads, hospitals, ambulances, signage, which are very vital and in which we seem to lag behind should all be part of the package. Making a classy road but not factoring in all the other elements that take into account accidents and disasters, is a bit like the mushrooming of all these spiffy residential towers in Mumbai, without the infrastructure to support it.

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Let the authorities pay immediate attention to plug in the lacunae in terms of accidents and disasters on the E-way. The Mumbai-Pune E-way that has cut the travel time hugely and changed so many lives, should now move to become the complete package.