Re: Rules Enforcement
Post: I am a strong follower of traffic rules. As an average, I travel about 50 KMs in and around Bangalore. My observations on road usage are: I. Eventhough there are very clear signs on the roads of NO PARKING, I find highly educated people also are violating the rules. It cannot be attributed to lack of signsor lack of education.. Even traffic police, central,state government, police officers on duty violate the rules. I can provide ample live proof if one wants. The need of the hour is SELF-DISCIPLINE on everyone of us. II. I have stopped many truck drivers driving at extreme right side of the road (where they are not supposed to) and tried to understand their psychology or reasons as to why they behave. I find their genuine reason why they do. Some of the key reasons are a. Uneven (unlevelled) roads with digs unrepaired creating problem for them in possible toppling. b. Un-trimmed trees on the resulting in possible hitting on the vehicle top c. Parking on the road sides making them difficult to drive. With all these, they feel comfortable to drive at extreme right. This slows down the vehicle traffic. The fault is not with the truck driver in this case. But all of us who do not give him opportunity to drive correctly. It is imperative that if there is SYNERGY in the form of a centralized monitoring cell who work on streamlining all the activities of good maintenance of the road conditions, putting right traffic signals, enforcing the rules by taking one stretch at a time over a period of few months, it serves the purpose. Government alone cannot implement things. Atleast 5 - 10 % of educated and knowledgeable people like us should volunteer and contribute our time of atleast 4 hours in a week, we can make a big change. There are also ways where we can ensure that the rules are followed by default in the form of MISTAKE PROOFING METHODS. This will make many of the traffic violations eliminated from the root with negligible cost. I have sent about my help in this connectin to Bangalore traffic police through email. I got reply as follows. dear sir, thanks lot for your valuable suggestion.I will contact you and discuss. with regards enforcement officer However, even after many months, no further response.
