Today I lost my car Headlamp to yet another illiterate driver.
Driving has some rules, and norms to be followed. Not all places you can walk to , you can drive in. You may feel if I was on legs, I would have gone through the gap, but thats not necessarily be the case when you are on wheels !!
In India, we drive on the left side of the road. So we have some rules, which many of the drivers do not even care / know about. ..like:
1] Left turn has to be sharp and close whereas to take a right turn you should first cross half of the road and then take a right turn.
2] On a crossroad vehicle to your right has the first right to go.
3] When signal turns yellow, you should "Slow down" and make a perfect stop at the signal.
4] While driving a car, keep a distance from the car ahead, so that you always see its rear wheels.
5] Follow a single lane. If vehicle in front of you stops, you should stop. Turning sharply to enter different lane, is a "wrong" way to drive.
Speaking limited to my city, pune, I guess RTO should cancel the current licenses and make everyone go through a good scrutiny for their driving and then give out new licenses. This can be done as follows:
First cancel all licenses given 19 years back. that is in the year 1987. They will be given a 6 months time to give the test again and get a new license. Then after 6 months waiting period, cancel all licenses issued in year 1988 and so on and so forth.
This will take time but atleast after 10 years everyone in this city will be qualified drivers.
In the mean time, all agents should be banned.
We can also, have free lancer qualified "traffic supervisors". This will give employment opportunity as well as those who hate night shift BPO jobs but still want to earn money a great noble job.
These traffic supervisors, will observe lane cuts, signal cuts, triple seat drivers, drivers not obeying no entries and one way rules in even the deepest parts of the city.
These rules are not hard to understand, there is no catch and they all will be issued a camera to actually catch such drivers red handed.
All traffic supervisors will be treated as consultants with food,travel allowance.
Whatever it takes, drivers in Pune city must be taught discipline.
2 comments:
As a foreigner to your country I was amazed at the organised chaos on your roads!! However I am always telling people that although at any given junction traffic will be approaching you at at least 360 directions I never witnessed an accident!!! My heart was put through its paces when lorries on the wrong expressway lane came straight at us.... when taxi's came within an inch of the car... or when we just stopped for no apparent reason!!
That said I do agree with the sentiments expressed above that lane discipline is a good thing but not as our dear friend says in order to prevent accidents... as it no doubt will... but also to improve the ability to move between places efficiently!!! Without the morass of converging traffic at junctions traffic will move more freely, evenly... there will be less wear and tear on vehicles (and nerves), less fuel will be used... so I say good idea...
... however one word of warning... by introducing such laws it is possible that some good will is lost... in the chaos at junctions people know to take their time, to eventually give way etc.. With laws personal responsibility is dimished and people become more agressive... "its my right..." and every other driver becomes the one to blame..
i understand ur frustration... though i consider myself as a fairly-good-driver, i sometimes get worried for my new car... ppl just come in between.. bang ur car if they want.. cross the road expecting u to care for their lives... motorcyclists loose all their balance and can probably land/crash on ur vehicle! thanks to the amazing roads!!!
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