Tuesday's TOI contained a news -
1 Killed, 3 Injured When BMTC Bus Hit Their Vehicles While Trying To Jump Red Signal
What Mr. Sood has to say about it?
Its just a one incident, but the thing is that it happens on a very frequent basis, its just the FATALity is not that frequent.
Mr. Sood, what was the fault of that person who got killed and other 3 injured?
Why are you not penalizing errant drivers so that they dare not to do the same violations again in lifetime?
Why drivers (BMTC or cab or auto or any private vehicle) think that violating signals is not a big deal?
Why your police cops are just hiding somewhere near the signal to catch hold of a few slow moving vehicles, what about those who are jumping signals at faster speeds whom you dare not to catch, because try catching them might pull you under the wheels?
We as Bangalore citizens need ANSWERS to these questions, its a high time, how many more innocents are going to die because of a few errants?
Mr. Sood, still keeping hope that you will do something.
as the transport minister..hes said training etc will be initiated to senstize drivers of BMTC busses..this accident was more his depts making..
The traffic cops had switched off traffic lights at the signal and manually managed traffic at the junction in question for the last few days and are turning it back on today..they are already doing their part..
Yeah in the general sense..yes..traffic cops do not have any concrete plans to improve/train ppl with their traffic sense..for example there is a defunct signal in front of mallya hosptial which was put in place when the hospitals car park was in the kanteerava stadium grounds..the parking is not there anymore but the signal remains..
Traffic cops stand just after the signal and catch ppl who jump that unnecessary signal..on the other hand allow swanky cars to park on the road in front of mallya hospital where there is no parking..these vehicles belong to influential ppl and doesnt matter even if it blocks traffic!
Generally, it's only when somebody close to you becomes the victim that people tend to wake up, and then, it's too late. As such, I can't agree with you more on what you are saying.
Certainly, there's a lot more that Mr Sood can do, and it's quite disappointing that a person of his calibre allows himself to be tied down this way - check this
Now, we all saw how Mr Baligar was shunted out of the office of the Chief Secretary at the behest of the mines mafia. There are the equally powerful BMTC/ KSRTC union mafia, and the various other mafia's of auto/ cab/ truck/ bus-owners, that Mr Sood has to bother with on a daily basis. Even the slightest mis-handling of a situation, which politicians will then immediately pounce on to take advantage of, will find him shunted off to Timbuktoo. So, I guess he has to play a balancing act. But, yes, that's costing the city dear, and is cetrtainly not good enough.
The answer perhaps lies in
- amendment of the archaic Police Act, providing for the institution of the Police Accountability Authority, which will then see the curtailment of the powers of the polity in the matter of transfer of officials.
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Competition in the bus services sector from reputed players, following which the unions will no longer be able to hold the public to ransom through strikes, etc, like we have seen in the case of Indian Airlines (now Air-India), and, most importantly
- PRAJAgala power
Murli Sir,
I just wrote what I saw everyday on my way to office and back home. I didn't cite any incident where someone close to me became the victim. Its just that reality is what I mentioned, and everyone sees that, its only a handful of people like me who think about it, try to see some solution out of it, try to escalate it, make their mind strangled in all these activities, and rest all just smoothly ride/drive away.
I also agree with you that Mr. Sood has to deal with a lot unfavourable stuff, but that's what he has to fight out, I mean that's where we as Praja members coming in right, complaining about wrong things, or giving feedbacks of the civic stuff, if taken in a right manner, Government can make Bangalore a heaven.
Anyways, no harsh words, just hope and pray that Mr. Sood will definitely find a solution to my grievences, and if that could be solved, I strongly believe a few more problems around it will also be resolved.
I understand what your are trying to say Murli Sir, but I am as well very much sad about what I see everyday my trip to work and back home, or for that matter any ride on Bangalore roads.
(1) I don't understand why BMTC buses (including volvos) are allowed to enter those narrow service lanes on outer-ring-road?
(2) Why always auto drivers, BMTC drivers and cab drivers are the most frequent traffic jumpers, I know other also do, but percentage is low, and anyways I am talking about everyone.
(3) Have you ever faced a cab driver or auto driver standing behind you at a signal bullying over you, threatening you when you are not giving him side so that he can jump signal? I have faced that.
(4) Have you ever seen a lot of motorcyclists dare to easily move over the footpath honking over the pedestrians? I see many times and feel helpless. I think if we have some control on this, we don't need much more specific plans for pedestrians. If normal rider/driver's habbits and road-sense can be educated and enforced, a lot many things will be solved by itself like traffic jams, pedestrians safety etc.
(5) At many narrow lanes its normal habbit for lot of drivers to just park their car and make the lane narrower causing trouble to traffic moving there?
Its all happening around us and people are doing it without any fear, once we have a controlling entity, enforcing entity so that people should feel that I shouldn't do this, I should do that, then we will actually see a lot of difference in current statistics and then statistics.
