If you are driving in India, you will agree with me that you almost always wear your heart in your sleeves. You cant predict what will happen in a second. I have this compulson to drive everyday and it has proved to be a nightmare. If the traffic is one way, you will see buses moving diagonally, autos, two wheelers over taking you in almost every direction and there is no concept of lane. There may be vechicle ready to cross the street from other direction, with half its body in your lane. So, to be safe, you may have to put your foot on the break perpetaully only to see that you are not moving but everybody else. I am frustrated with this because so much of fuel is being watsed!! So, I decided to write to the PM about re-inforcing traffic rules. Here is a snippet of what I wrote...
"We all know that vechicles running in 4th gear utilizes fossil fuel most efficiently. However, it is almost impossible to go in 4th gear 99% of the time in any given road. The reasons may be many including that of bad road conditions, traffic jam etc, which seem to be unavaoidable. But there is a component that can be largely avoided; and that is by following the traffic rules. I travel everyday to drop my 2 year old to day care and often take a narrow lane to avoid traffic. However, although the lanes are one way, but vechicles do come from the other end, often hitting us, brushing us arguing with us. The offenders are most often the auto, taxi, hand ricksaw pullers and cars driven by drivers. I am wondering if a strict rule can be re-inforced where the traffic offenders are heavily fined so that traffic flows in a reasonably controlled manner. I dont have the data on how much of fossi fuel can be saved by this, but I guess it is not going to be less than several thousand crores a year. Can a clause be made so that people will be made to obey traffic rules, irrespective their alliance with parties or their positions. Can the violators be tried under serious loss of national property? I am deeply concerned about the fuel wastage; the loss of time; peace; pollution all at the sae time because some people choose to dis-obey traffic." Now the wait begins if there is going to be a response and if so if anything will change at all....
"We all know that vechicles running in 4th gear utilizes fossil fuel most efficiently. However, it is almost impossible to go in 4th gear 99% of the time in any given road. The reasons may be many including that of bad road conditions, traffic jam etc, which seem to be unavaoidable. But there is a component that can be largely avoided; and that is by following the traffic rules. I travel everyday to drop my 2 year old to day care and often take a narrow lane to avoid traffic. However, although the lanes are one way, but vechicles do come from the other end, often hitting us, brushing us arguing with us. The offenders are most often the auto, taxi, hand ricksaw pullers and cars driven by drivers. I am wondering if a strict rule can be re-inforced where the traffic offenders are heavily fined so that traffic flows in a reasonably controlled manner. I dont have the data on how much of fossi fuel can be saved by this, but I guess it is not going to be less than several thousand crores a year. Can a clause be made so that people will be made to obey traffic rules, irrespective their alliance with parties or their positions. Can the violators be tried under serious loss of national property? I am deeply concerned about the fuel wastage; the loss of time; peace; pollution all at the sae time because some people choose to dis-obey traffic." Now the wait begins if there is going to be a response and if so if anything will change at all....
