Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Safety of our Roads

I am writing this to bring to your notice that Road Transport for Bikers and Cycling has become Unsafe with growing traffic and growth of our nation.
Everyday I commute to office on a bike. And everyday I see people breaking traffic signals, rules and also getting away with paying bribe to the traffic Cops.
Near my office I have a four road junction  where people have to take a circle to the other side of the road whoever is coming from Gachibowli Flyover side taking the ORR and getting down near the exit to come to Nanakramguda. But everyday hundreds and hundreds of Highly Educated IT professionals just dont bother to go and take the full circle. They just see if there is no vehicle coming they take the diognal and U-Turn. Here the point is about self policing. How do you think mind set of these people can be changed. Here Qualified professionals who drive Merc's, Civi's and Top end cars and bikes are setting wrong Examples.
1. I would suggest the transport authorities to put a camera at every place where there is no traffic cop standing and start sending Challans directly to their permanent address and in case they dont change after certain number of Challan bar the driver from Driving by blocking his Licence.
 
2. Create seperate lanes for 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers. Again the same policy anyone voilating challans needs to be sent. I would also suggest to make it mandatory for everyone to follow the lane system. Government can also create Fast/Express lane where people have to pay for using them if they have to drive fast. But these lanes need not be flyovers. Make 3 lanes in a Road, 1 for Bikers, 1 for Normal Speed and other for Express Speed where the amount paid can be used for maintenance of Roads.
 
3. One request is to make the vehicle registration for across the nation Standard. I know its under state rule and regulation. But everytime if someone get transferred from one city to another city out of a state it become a huge burden on part of the owner to pay road tax everytime. Some solution has to be given with respect to this case.

Everyone of us dreams to go to US/UK/Western Country and we strictly follow their rules. Once we are back we just ignore our own rules.

Why cant we set an example?

How will we be able to make a change if we dont want to be the element to bring that change?

I feel we dont have a right to demand for change if we dont want to be part of that change?
 
Hope to have Safe Roads in Future.

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