While traveling to work this morning, everyone in the bus was captivated by an ambulance, complete with blazing lights and horn, trying to make its way through numerous vehicles on the road. I have seen this scene being enacted a couple of times before. It always makes me wonder – will the person waiting for or already in this vehicle survive? While an emergency is always the first thought that comes to my mind, I also wonder if this ambulance is only trying to quickly get away from an otherwise monotonous traffic jam. When the vehicles themselves are trying to get breathing space, how can they make way for a rushing vehicle? People who create a monstrous quandary on the roads are termed “literate”, follow rules in other countries and are unabashedly serial offenders in their own. Solution – bring on more cameras, more traffic police, heftier fines, a centralized tracking mechanism and a day counting bars post 3 consecutive gaffes. Also, why cannot the traffic police provide an ambulance with the same treatment meted out to a politician’s or VIP's cavalcade? I think an announcement of sorts to the traffic police hotline should do the trick to get an ambulance to its destination faster.
Sigh! How I wish I could make rules, implement and execute them :)
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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oooo yes.... i wish it to :(
ReplyDeleteWho stopped you from aiming at and reaching a position where you could make rules? What prevents you from entering politics or the government or the civil services etc?
ReplyDeleteThe problem is we can only talk. Politician-bashing, system-bashing, cribbing, preaching...these are the "in" thing. And it disgusts me. Yeah not that I've done anything to improve things. But I detest such talk because they are simply timepass. No change/action comes out of it.
Even if a person HAS done something to change the system, I don't think such talk is beneficial in anyway. Those few people out there... who quietly just do what is needed to improve things...that is what I appreciate.
well, i think there are rules in place. but most public are very careless about it. they have a real i dont care attitude. rules can only do so much, it is up to the individual on the streets to act. how many times have we moved our car or bike from the lane when it is wizzing past. rules can only do so much. individuals can do a lot more. politicians are out teachers as such, so they have a moral responsibility to educate the public along with everyone else from the system. we pay them for something right? why cant they do their job properly.
ReplyDeleteIf papers dont move in the office u always get angry with a manager. the politicians are managers of the city/town/municipal. so i hold them only responsible.