Mangalore, Jul 16: The Mangalore traffic police cracked down on vehicles and buses that use high decibel horns on Wednesday July 17. They intercepted over 40 buses near Lalbagh and fined more than 26 of them. The police inspected the frequency of the horn sounds using a sound level meter.
The cops stopped the buses, both private and KSRTC, and inspected them on the spot. Horns of several buses were removed and placed under the bus tyres so that they would not be used again. Each bus found to be using horns with frequency above 75 decibels were fined Rs 100.
ACP (traffic) Uday Nayak said that the sound level meter has a capacity to catch frquencies up to 10 metres, and that it was obtained from the Pollution Control Board. The device was imported at a cost of Rs one lac, he said.
Traffic policemen H Shivaprasad, H Babu and Pradeep H S were part of the operation. After Lalbagh, the team continued the exercise in other parts of the city.
