Traffic police in Nepal

Traffic police in Nepal

Traffic police in Nepal have declared a war on high-decibel honking, penalising erring drivers and seizing more than 1,000 shrill horns that have made life unbearable on often gridlocked streets.

In a nation where drivers tend to honk as easily – and constantly – as they breathe, police launched a drive earlier this month to tame the noisemakers, charging vehicles with blaring horns fines of up to 5,000 Nepali rupees ($53).

Cut down on noise pollution

Police also confiscated more than 1,000 loud horns in the past week in a bid to cut down the noise pollution on the streets of the capital, said Kathmandu Metropolitan Traffic Police spokesman Pawan Giri.

“Such vehicles have caused accidents as pedestrians, distracted by the cacophony of blaring horns, bump into each other and the passing traffic,” Giri told AFP.

Some rogue drivers have gone so far as to replace their vehicles’ original, comparatively subdued, horns with noisier digital horns, Giri said.

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