Tuesday, February 03, 2009

who does the road belong to?

Does it belong to BMC who keep digging it up for fun, oil or is it hidden treasure?
Does it belong to the pedestrian, who in spite of a 10 ft footpath insists on walking on the road?
Or Does it belong to the "public servant" politician who can take a caravan of 6 cars, traveling at break neck speed, bullying all vehicles with guns and gears?
Or does it belong to the guy who pays road tax and petrol tax and service tax and vehicle tax and any other tax chidambarm can think off, yet has to crawl thru walkers, dogs, cops, road blocks, politicians and wannabe politicians and of course, the hawkers, cows and accidents....
Solution:
1. One authority for all the roads, whoever wants to dig has to ask and submit time bound plans, with a caution deposit... If they over step thier time limit, they lose money on a daily basis and thier government supplier status has to take a downgrade.

2. There was a time when we were a two wheeler country, then it made sense to overlook jaywalkers, no longer, now we are a 4 wheeler country, if we dont reign in the jaywalkers, many more people will get hurt or die.
If pedestrians refuse to use the footpath, demolish and make it part of the road please. I have seen educated fools walking the road when there is an empty footpath next to them...

3. Politicans should travel early morning (pre-rush) or late night (post rush) if they want a whole cavalcade. Our tax ruppees is funding thier vehicles, so we get first preference. Cops should quit bullying poor people on the road. Today, Vashi toll bridge was crowded because, some politican wanted go out of town...

4. Lastly, People should respect themselves and others like them, quit honking, driving when they can't drive and please respect lanes and signals....

The most important thing, is to have transparecy, instead of people applying under RTI, why can't all projects be updated with bids online?
All drunk drivers, should have thier mugs, names and licence no.s on the website.

I wanted to write reams on the Autos, thier refusals to ply and thier meters, but maybe later :D

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