--- N Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello every one, > > Thanks to the responses received on my initial mail > through goanet. I received a surprise phonecall > from one Mr.Mascharenhas, Dona paula, who wanted to > meet me urgently to-day, as he had to go and meet > some one in the Government regarding the ever > increasing traffic problems of Goa. > > He is an engineer by profession and has returned > from Germany. > Mario observes: > Mr. Chandrasekharan, I am constantly amazed and amused by the angst about traffic in India and Goa. > Unless you pass a law REQUIRING every driver licensed in Goa, from 2-wheelers to multi-axle vehicles, to undergo remedial driver training and testing, where the fundamentals of driving ethics are driven home and accepted as a condition of re-licensing by a certain deadline, followed by strict enforcement of traffic laws starting no earlier than that deadline, you are wasting your time and energy. > Then what do you do about the narrow, often unmarked roads, the traffic density, the "pedestrians" and assorted "quadestrians", and out-of-state drivers? > Please tell Mr. Mascarenhas from Germany, from me, a resident of the US, that Goan and Indian traffic will trend towards the picture-perfect conditions that apply in Germany and the US about the same time that throwing thrash wherever convenient, spitting all over the place and urinating in public will be abolished in India. > While this may sound cynical, it also reflects reality. Traffic rules in particular and civic sense in general are just not a priority in India, including Goa. > In the meantime, every driver should pay close attention to the "temporary maniac" in the next vehicle, and drive very, very defensively, before everyone returns to perfect sanity as soon as their vehicles are parked:-)) >
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