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For example, tourist cars and buses come to the Lake Club park across the road. After sitting cooped up in their vehicles for hours, tourists, awed by the beauty of the lake, and jay walk across the road, oblivious of traffic. They are fair prey for motorists who do not respect road rules like speed limits or zebra crossings. An underpass is required but the proposal has been turned down many times. The Global Road Safety Partnership has made valuable recommendations based on observations collected from around the world over the past six years. However, they must accept that what applies to and works in other countries may not be practical in India.
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Chandigarh plays host as
capital to three states: The Union Territory, Punjab and Haryana.
Every other car has a red or blue light on the roof, giving them the
right to drive the way they want to, read this as the right not to
observe any road rules. The law makers are the law breakers. No
traffic policeman dare stop them, leave alone challan them.
Often these dome-light cars are driven by the security personnel or
the brats of the high and mighty. We do not have qualified road
engineers or traffic-management experts. Roads are built by PWD. Can
they build roads? Yes, but not safe roads. A road becomes congested
and while widening it, the footpath disappears because the focus is on
cars, not pedestrians. A high-speed expressway is built. It is for
cars only. We have not emerged fully from the bullock-cart stage. No
provisions for animal-drawn carts, hand-carts, cycles or pedestrians.
Cyclists and pedestrians account for the largest number of fatalities.
Think of them. Roads are not only for cars. There are other road users
and more vulnerable than motorists, the pedestrians. Walk safe!