Mangaluru: Acting upon a complaint, Lokayukta P Vishwanatha Shetty has ordered the initiation of a suo-motu proceeding for the investigation against Mangaluru City Corporation and Mangaluru City Police for installing plastic speed breakers across the city in an unscientific way inconveniencing commuters.

The Lokayukta has taken up the issue after a complaint was filed based on the concern raised by a correspondent of a National English daily from the city.

The complaint filed before the Lokayukta states that the Mangaluru City Corporation and Mangaluru City Traffic police have installed 80 speed breakers on about 24 kilometers of arterial roads in the city. There are 26 speed breakers on the 4 kilometer stretch between Kottara and PVS alone. The MCC had erected these speed breakers after the advice of Mangaluru City Traffic Police.

Also, the complaint reads that there are two kinds of violations. First, that the speed breakers have been installed on main roads instead of cross roads joining them as mandated by the Indian Road Congress Code(99-1998). Second, that the speed breakers that are installed are plastic, which is not at all recommended by the IRC on public roads.