It has been revealed that the road safety improvement works built in specific areas are effective. :- Addis Ababa City Administration Traffic Management Authority together with partner institutions has stated that the road improvement work implemented on the route from Afncho Ber to 6 Kilometers, which are identified as vulnerable to traffic accidents, is effective. According to Mrs. Mahlet Geremu, a senior expert at the authority's road safety engineering directorate, special attention was given to the area as it is more prone to accidents and work was started immediately. In the improvement work, Bloomberg for Global Road Safety, WRI, and Addis Ababa University and the Ethiopian Aynswuran National Association have conducted a study to expand the zebra crossing and make it more visible, create different crossings in one line, and build a speed hump to reduce vehicle speed, the expert said. . The expert stated that pavement and fences, traffic warning signs (fallout beacons), bollards, curbstones and pedestrian crossings, as well as the work of filling open pipes and potholes were also included. . The authorities have expressed their gratitude from the university and blind association as well as the road user community for taking this into consideration and implementing it recently. According to Mrs. Mahlet, to ensure traffic flow and safety, similar activities are being carried out at Gedera and Ras Sadda junction, Ajamba Condominium area road divider curbstone, speed reduction hump and painting works. In the future, the expert said that such activities will be carried out by identifying the areas that are vulnerable to danger and the situation of accidents in the city. We met her at the 5th Gate of 6 Kilo University, where the road improvement work was implemented. She completed her studies at Addis Ababa University and is a member of the Blind Association, Ms. Ritt Menaze, who gave her opinion that the place was prone to traffic accidents in the past and the current road safety improvement work has taken into consideration the disabled and pedestrians. She explained the decline. According to the student's pledge, if the awareness given to pedestrians and drivers to reduce traffic accidents is given widely in the media and if the society implements it in their daily activities, even more accidents can be reduced. In his opinion, local resident Ato Kholo said that before the place was prone to accidents, but after the improvement work, no accidents have happened, and if similar activities are carried out in other places, it is possible to prevent the death of human beings, property and physical damage. Therefore, after the implementation of the road improvement work, the authority office urges the pedestrians to protect themselves from traffic collisions by following the correct road usage so that the drivers can fulfill their responsibilities properly.
