One should visit Bangalore to have a feeling of Road realities. To cover a distance of 10 Kms, it takes anything between one and two hours and that too after encountering all sorts of obstacles and hindrances imaginable and unimaginable.There are no proper road signals, there are both natural and unnatural humps every 100yards, sometimes even 10 humps within a distance of 300 yards in some roads, the stones used for dividing the roads are scattered affecting the traffic and resulting in accidents, cattle are allowed to be on the middle of busy roads slowing the traffic and creating traffic jam, potholes and damaged roads are everywhere endangering the lives of two wheelers and damaging the vehicles of any kind, absence of proper footpaths forcing the pedestrians to occupy the roads at the cost of their lives, crisscrossing on the main and busy roads by cyclists and two wheelers without bothering for their own lives and at the same time involving in accidents of other vehicles, absence of fear for traffic police and indulging in all sorts of traffic violations,etc. 90% of the traffic problems are man made as the authorities seldom care to enforce the road, traffic rules and contracts to ensure roads are clean and free from any sort of hindrances. The Standard of any Country and its Cities can be judged based on the Conditions of Road and from that angle India lags far far behind. The rating agencies should factor this also when they rate the country for its economic status and ease of doing business. VVIPS seldpom know this as their movements are well taken care of avoiding all these problems smartly by the clever brains engaged in such duties. Only Common man encounters all the problems and his life has no value as such.
Dr.T.V.Gopalakrishnan
(This comment is in response to the news report "No lessons learned to check road fatalities in India" that appeared in TOI dated 16/12/13)
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