[Goanet] Have you done the Goan pole dance????
*Have you done the Goan pole dance???* Or does the phrase fati voch, fude voch, barik ja sound familiar, oh! Yes I am sure for most of us it rings bells leave alone the Ministers/MLA's and yes not forgetting the nouveau riche class. I am a daily commuter who makes use of the public/private government transport service and I am penning this down to tell you how displeased I am with the services provided. Each day I think a tin of sardines is also now decently packed leaving enough room inside. But in a crowded bus you can barely lift your arm or move for that matter, if you happen to be a passenger who wasn't lucky enough to get a seat. While the pole dance refers to contortions you are foced into,clinging on to the bar on the seat or the pole on the ceiling of the bus, with the buses racing to collect maximum number of passengers at rocket speed you just can't help to swing on one of those poles!!! Although I am a science student I choose not to take biology but may be if I had I would have opted to study medicine where I would have to study anatomy as one of curriculum subjects, but in a packed bus you are forced to study it where some of the male species consider themselves more then lucky to be imparting it to you forcibly. Often I wonder why are not the rights of the protected citizens observed like Senior Citizen Only, Handicaps Only, Ladies Only or something like No Smoking, Only 13 Standing and as to why no account is taken to the complaint/suggestion box. And most often to make matters worse these buses when they start the journey they crawl yes I mean literally crawl may be if you got down and walked you may have reached faster, and why is ticket less travel ok for public private transport except for the time when the news spreads like fire that Aare mukar RTO aasa re. I guess after loosing hope in the local people the Ministers/MLA's have strategically worked out a plan to influx the land of Goa which was once called paradise on earth with immigrant population to help them fill their booty with majority number of votes and never thought of providing adequate transport facilities hence making the buses over crowded I wonder what will it take the concerned authority to realise that it is torture to make use of the public/private government transport. Or may be its about time the Minister/MLA's be asked to make use of this transport facilities while on duty to truly understand how irksome the entire journey can be Valerie Vales Raia.
[Goanet] Have you done the Goan pole dance????
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:56:21 +0530 From: valerie vales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or does the phrase fati voch, fude voch, barik ja sound familiar, oh! Yes I am sure for most of us it rings bells leave alone the Ministers/MLA's and yes not forgetting the nouveau riche class. I am a daily commuter who makes use of the public/private government transport service and I am penning this down to tell you how displeased I am with the services provided. Mario asks: Valerie, In a free market society, the excess of demand over supply that you are describing would be seen as an opportunity for some enterprising enterpreneur to start a competing private transportation service, for which many working people may be willing to pay a little extra for comfort and convenience. This would be a more efficient and organized version of the motorcycles that transport individuals in Goa for a fee. For example, I have a Filipino friend who bought a mini-van in Manila that seats about ten people that she rents out to a driver when she is in the US where she lives most of the time. The driver transports passengers to and from Manila Airport for a fee and pays her a rental fee per month. When she visits, she has use of the van for herself and her family. She benefits from the monthly rent, the driver benefits from the money he makes and the passengers benefit from the service as well. There are many Goan NRI's who could do the same or some version of it, and local nouveau riche Goans may be interested, too. However, I have no idea whether the municipal authorities in Goa have any restrictions in the form of licenses, permits, bribes, ...er, commissions, etc. which may make such an option less feasible if not impossible. Such restrictions on commerce are often features in a country like India, and such restrictions benefit the bureaucracy and the politicians and increase their relative power at the expense of regular citizens.
