People are vexed and tired with the total lack of traffic sense of people on the roads in India. No rules, no common sense, and no concern for other fellow being. Do Indians lack humanity? Is it utter lack of civic sense? India boasts of great cultural values, but it might be a thing of past (ancient and medieval times). I think strongly that traffic sense is also a part of your cultural values. The traffic system in India is totally broken due to various factors government' failure, corruption, people's non-cooperation.
Let me tell you my experience, crossing the roads in Hyderabad is a herculean task. People don't have any concern for kids, women, pregnant women, senior people on roads. Last month I noticed a very senior woman (must be around 65 years of age) trying to cross the road on Raj Bhavan Road, people would not stop their vehicles to let this old woman cross the road. A good Samaritan helped her and eventually with great difficulty he could take her to the other side. Think about small school kids, and pregnant women. There are so many people getting killed trying to cross roads in India.
Some thing has to happen to change this.
1. Educate people to instill some traffic sense. Try some Ads with celebrities.
2. Have Zebra lines with stop lights at all important roads to start with in all Indian cities just like in Western countries. A pedestrian can press the button at a Zebra line so that the red light remains for 1 minute for people to cross the road.
3. Employ some retired people as traffic volunteers during the busy hours at these zebra places to help kids, senior and other needy people to cross the road.
What do you think?
Friday, January 2, 2009
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Rama this is a good one. First of all Police (Traffic Police) should get their act together. It should start from there as it's their responsibility to make people follow traffic rules.
ReplyDeleteAll Polititians, Movie actors, Sports stars should do one commerical (For free just for a change and for the sake of the country!) educating People abount following traffic rules which should be telivised in every channel like we used to have new reels in olden days in the movies.
My two paisas!.