Again a new post from Young India Initiatives...........
Dear All,
I have received quite a few inputs and remarks mentioning various problems. There is a huge list of issues we have to face in our daily life. We believe that these are getting completely neglected by leaders. We also crib about these issues as those are worsening day by day. As part of my habit, I try to analyze the problems with neutral and unbiased opinion. I know we have leaders most of which are of “do nothing” attitude. We also have leaders ready to take or snatch the credit of the work they neither did nor even thought of it in dreams. That’s the pity and miserable condition and we as human nature have tendency to blame them more.
We curse almost all possible people for our chaotic traffic situation. We blame traffic controller personnel. We shout at administration responsible for road construction work. But a simple observation which made me write this email – all these stakeholders are responsible for only up to 10% of traffic chaos occurring today across cities. Believe me. How many times you have noticed the traffic jams due to bad roads? How many times you have seen the chaos happening because of mismanagement of traffic controller? How many times you have seen traffic going beyond out of control due to administration issues?
I don’t believe in blame game … but for sure citizens are majorly responsible for the 90% chaos. Everybody has urgency to reach the destination on time, but as a habit … we don’t start bit early. For our convenience we called it as Indian standard. Everybody blames other on traffic rules violation … and self breaks the rules at every moment. We blame traffic controller for not controlling the traffic and managing it … but how many times we paid attention to him or his indication? Administration has made several roads unidirectional … then why do we still see the traffic jams there? It is again we who enters into wrong direction and creates the havoc. I am sure almost everyone has seen the deadlocks happening at the squares … it is the result of nature of urgency, competitiveness at wrong place and lack of understanding. Taking vehicle on reverse gear is huge compromise for us and we cannot live with that. It is the insult for a person if asked to take it reverse. It’s only in our country where we say and believe that “Rules are made to be broken”. This is something we believe as inherent part of life. This statement gives us thrill, a feeling of adventure.
It is safely assumed and has taken it as granted across country that the footpath on roadside are designed to be used by hawkers. Road side shops have first priority to use those and if there is any space left then pedestrians may use it. Bicycle riders find great pleasure and adventure to move on mainstreet though cycle paths are available in some part of country. People prefer to cross the road based on their choice than using zebra crossing or subways. I don’t believe all these can be and should be controlled only by those traffic guys. Also, no law and order system will be able to resolve these problems unless we want to. It is very easy to say and blame … but implementation needs lion’s heart. Implementation needs self discipline and self respect. Who will stop you … if you decide to stop at red? Who will punish you … if you decide to follow rules?
But yes … administration also needs to be aware of few things. Encroachments are never removed when those are happening. What keep administration waiting till those become bottlenecks? Many a times we see heavy earth movers, road rollers, cranes etc running at the speed of 10-20 KMPH and holding back the complete traffic at peak hours. Why do we have garbage trucks competing with private cars on high speed lanes? Why administration never restricts the entry for such heavy vehicles during peak hours? Why the construction materials are never removed in time from roads … those are left for no reason and cause traffic jams. I believe this degrading traffic situation is the result of our mistakes and can be solved to quite some extend by bringing awareness.
Yours truly,
Young! India (“Y! I” should be read as “Why Not I?”).
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