Traffic light system at some 100
places in Phnom Penh city will be changed in the upcoming 2015 under the
support of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to promote safety and
reduce traffic congestion.
The plan was made known on Tuesday at
the closing ceremony of a two-day workshop on land road traffic safety.
The seminar provided the participants
with skills of elaborating prioritized land road safety plans to be implemented
with high effectiveness so as to reduce tragedies along the roads. Through the
workshop, National Road Safety Committee (NRSC) encouraged municipal and
provincial authorities to prepare their active plans on road safety at their
localities by focusing on helmet wearing and the impacts of drink-driving in
order to prevent and reduce the number of casualties to the minimal level.
For the first step of this training,
NRSC has set 15 targeted provinces and municipality with the support budget
from Global Road Safety Partnership in Cambodia. There were in total 4,322
cases of traffic accidents in 2013, killing 1,901 people, injuring thousands
others, and costing the country about US$300 million.
Source:
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=45648
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