Honda opens its eighth traffic training park in India

Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) has inaugurated its new traffic-training park in Hyderabad, in collaboration with the Hyderabad Traffic Police. This is Honda’s eighth traffic park in India and its first traffic park to promote road safety in South India.

The chief guest at the inauguration was  Mahendar Reddy, IPS, Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad), Jitender, IPS, Additional Commissioner of Police, Traffic, Hyderabad; Tomoaki Nagayama, deputy director, South Region, Sales & Marketing, HMSI;  and  Ashish Chaudhary, assistant general manager - South Region, Sales & Marketing,  HMSI.

Honda has adopted and developed the traffic training park at Goshamahal as a mini city, right from traffic signals through to zebra crossings to speedbreakers. Here, the company’s skilled male and female safety instructors will educate all age groups starting from 5-year-old children on road safety, with a special focus on new and female riders.

Speaking at the event, Tomoaki Nagayama, deputy director - South Region, Sales & Marketing, HMSI, said, “Honda believes that with proper training, safe-riding habits can be inculcated amongst two-wheeler riders. Honda has already got phenomenal thumbs up by educating over 142,000 individuals at its seven existing traffic parks in India. As the next step, Honda has adopted its first traffic park in South India. Now more and more people in Hyderabad can learn how to ride a two-wheeler safely and conveniently from Honda’s skilled and trusted safety instructors.”

In a unique initiative, HMSI has enabled above-18 female riders to learn how to ride a two-wheeler at Honda’s traffic park. Here dedicated women safety instructors will train them to become independent riders in just 4 hours if they know cycling.

Existing riders in Hyderabad can test their riding skills on a narrow plank and new riders can increase their ability to predict and  react to traffic hazards on Honda’s Proprietary riding simulators.
HMSI’s efforts at promoting a safe riding culture in India as a responsible manufacturer have seen it bag a number of awards including the Bloomberg-Autocar 2015 awards for ‘CSR initiative towards road safety - 2Wheeler’.