^Not only the govt. but the people shud practise some discipline too. Blaming only blueline buses wont help.
Well, ask us four wheelers who see the menace of 2 wheelers everyday trying to act as 'traffic cutters'. They try to cut even if they see 2 cms of space between cars, change lanes randomly and in slow traffic their bike's handle go 'to-n-fro' like they are trying hard to get a hold of the handle! Half the time its becoz of their own fault that an accident happens.
I was in a traffic jam, when the traffic moved a little. The car in front of me moved and from no where came a scooterist trying to invade that gap and cut the wind thinking that the traffic wud be static relative to his velocity. I dint see him as he came at a very fast speed from no where n I moved my car a little. The poor fellow hit the bumper and his scoooter skid. That inicdent sent a frightening chill throughout my body. But to my surprise he got up and acted retardedly again and went off in a flash! Now how wud u explain that?
Nuff said bt 2 wheelers. What bt pedestrains? They form up crowds while crossing the street. They step down from dividers and start crossing the street from right to left etc n keep moving slowly. The crowd behind them starts doin the same and the overall crowd that forms then, keeps makin the road narrower. The bikers and four wheelers try to cross that little narrowing gap as fast as possible. And then it becomes a standstill. Now who is to be blamed?
In other countries they have pedestrain red lights too. In our country they teach to cross via zebra crossing! People cant even keep the streets clean and act like nomads outta their home, then forget bt teaching them bt zebra crossings!
I read the news bt blueline killing 7 people: inluding 5 women and 1 kid. The news read that they were standing on a 'virtual bus stop'! When they know bt the bluelines, then y not act sensibly and stand on the proper bus stop?
So its not just the bluelines, its everyone that needs discipline and its the bikers who need the most! I feel scared of em more than the bluelines! Not to mention the autorickshaws and rickshaws who drive wearing a 'kaffan' and turn at 90 degrees randomly!
