Kathmandu, June 12 -- No significant improvement can be seen in adopting safety measures by the Department of Roads on the 10.5 km Kalanki-Koteshwor road section even after three weeks of receiving the 'Road Safety Audit' from a team of experts.

After receiving widespread criticism from the public and the media, given the increasing number of accidents and death along the road stretch, the government in the second week of February launched a 'Road Safety Audit' under road safety expert Padma Bahadur Shahi. The team--which included Department of Road engineers, representatives from Shanghai Construction Group Co Ltd, traffic engineers and civil engineers--had submitted a report three weeks ago.

When the Post contacted Lalitpur Divisional...