Allowing more than two people to ride on two wheels is not advised: Center
The Centre has said that it was “not prudent” to let a third person to ride along on a two-wheeler since it was against the law to do so and because motorbikes and scooters are typically only built to hold two people.
This was Nitin Gadkari’s answer to CPI(M) MP Elamaram Kareem’s proposal that children under the age of 10 be permitted to ride as a third person on two-wheelers if they adhere to appropriate safety precautions, such as wearing helmets.
In a letter dated May 31 that rejected the plea, Gadkari said that “under the Central Motor Vehicles Act 1988, no driver of a two-wheeler can carry more than one person.”
Therefore, it would not be wise to let more than one passenger to be carried thereon in addition to the driver from the perspective of rider safety. Additionally, according to the Union Minister, every two-wheeler “is universally designed and constructed to carry one person in addition to the driver.”
This statement comes as many in the southern state of Kerala were calling for the Kerala LDF administration to ask the Centre to change the Motor Vehicles Act in a restricted way to allow one kid to ride with parents on a two-wheeler.
Following the inauguration of the government’s Safe Kerala project, which installed 726 artificial cameras around the state to automatically detect traffic offenses, such a desire was widely voiced in the state.
A significant portion of the country’s residents, who utilize two-wheelers to commute for their everyday necessities, are popular, according to Kareem, who wrote to Gadkari on May 1st. Additionally, he had said that not everyone could afford to own vehicles.
