Safety concerns on Delhi's UER-II corridor

Notes

• Urban Extension Road-II (UER-II) is a 75-km high-speed corridor in Delhi designed to divert heavy traffic from the city center.
• The corridor has experienced multiple fatal accidents within its first year of operation.
• Key safety risks identified include abrupt speed transitions at merging points, unauthorized movement of banned vehicles, and frequent wrong-side driving.
• Delhi Traffic Police is shifting from conventional enforcement to digital, camera-based enforcement due to the difficulty of human intervention on high-speed stretches.
• The traffic police are integrating their enforcement platform with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) camera network.
• Wrong-side driving is a significant enforcement challenge, with 3,000 FIRs registered across Delhi for this offense in the current year.
• Enforcement is further complicated by motorists obscuring or removing number plates to evade toll payments.