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After years of complaining about being unable to manoeuvre their vehicles through the city’s narrow roads, the Mumbai Fire Brigade has found a solution — motorbikes.

The two-wheelers, fitted with a Compressed Air Form (CAF) unit, a German technology, can fight vehicle fires and oil spills.

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After drawing flak for last Tuesday's accident on the Eastern Express Highway in which two men on a bike lost their lives, traffic police have been ordered to stand in such a way that they are clearly visible to motorists at signals and not startle drivers by surfacing before them all of a sudden.

Feedback from bikers has revealed that they want traffic policemen to stop playing 'hide and se read more »
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Mumbai is a city known to be jammed with cars. Now it looks like motorbikes are set to add to the chaos on the streets.

The RTO informs that in the last three years (from 2003 to 2006) the city’s roads have got 3 lakh new motorbikes. So the figure has suddenly jumped from the more or less stable 3 lakh to 6 lakh.

State transport commissioner, S D Shinde, confirmed Mumbaikars’ sudden love read more »
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