On Wed, 26 May 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> my ignorance. The right thing that the people of saligao should do is to change > our attitudes towards life instead of critising this one and that one and that > hinders our progress. When I come to saligao I find the roads outdated, > electricity not up to mark and I think people do not even get enough water. > albert Just for the sake of debate, however broad the roads in Goa get, it will be insufficient, as long as we all have to depend on our own vehicles and the public transportation system continues to be in a state of collapse. My view is that Saligao (along with the other villages, of course) needs a public transport system it can depend on. The Calangute-Saligao-Panjim bus route is as poorly (or probably worse) served than it was 20 years ago, when we were in college. The Mapusa-Saligao-Pilerne-Betim route has improved dramatically, basically for two reasons (i) the need to serve the industrial estate on atop Pilerne and (ii) the fact that mini-buses plying through village Goa makes more sense and can cope with the erratic pressure on the public transport system at different times of the day. As far as the Calangute-Saligao-Mapusa route is concerned, I don't travel on it often enough to be in a position to comment. Broad roads are fine; but as Panjim's example shows us, with so many fast vehicles adding pressures on a system meant for just a handful of cars, it's impossible to cope. (We have nearly 400,000 vehicles in Goa, mostly private, today ... among the highest ratio in India... meaning that while parking woes, and killer roads pose a problem on one hand, the dearth of a proper public transport system is strongly felt on the other.) FN =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--W-E-B--S-I-T-E--=-=-=-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from Saligaonet | http://www.goacom.com/saligao_tinto/ ============================================================================ * Send e=mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT [EMAIL PROTECTED]) * Leave SUBJECT blank <--- Commom Mistake !! * On first line of the BODY of your message, type: subscribe saligaonet YOUR.EMAIL OR unsubscribe saligaonet YOUR.EMAIL Questions/Problems? Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
