A German friend of mine traveling with me in India had one remark specially looking at the state of the traffic in the country ??I think India is a huge chaos by Western standards but a functional one, which is hugely surprising.? Now that was about ten years back when we did not have the kind of automobile revolution we have grown used to since.
My friend told me that he had been a keen watcher of road life the first time he came in contact with , which at that point of time was moving towards improvements thanks to the metro railway. But that is history so to say.
Driving in India, and I am talking about metros of the country which has some semblances of gradual improvements, is a nightmare. For instance if you happen to be in one of the ?C? grade cities like Jabalpur it is not surprising to find the left-side traffic overflowing and plying against the right side, and often the tricycles criss-crossing like a free way, left, right and in all directions. Now that may take your goats if you are not used to this. This is one scenario the equally worse versions of which you may find just anywhere and if I may guess in over 70% of Indian roads. Road regulations, traffic safety, road safety, traffic rules in India, they all look a joke or at least not part of a layman road etiquettes.
is much to do with the traditional convenience that a common road user could grow out of, thus making for the notorious driving conditions the country has. Now if in such a melee of motorists that one normally comes across in the non-metro India, something goes amiss which amounts to an accident, it does not raise eyebrows. Given the chaos India is probably the safest to drive for the skill a motorist cannot help developing over the years.
The issues like road rage are typically metro, wide-roads issues and India does not as many so far till it has its countywide network of expressways.
We have some beautifully planned intersections in the capital of India. It will not be an exaggeration to call Delhi the city of intersections, which are seamless, without any halt for the crisscrossing traffic.
Imagine you are speeding away at the main arterial road and at the intersection you negotiate a left turn up a flyover and swerve right down to the road you would have waited to take had there been no flyover. Now you are actually flying at the intersections without stoppage time went into that. The seamless intersections followed up by flyovers have you on the go without halt.
The Golden Quadrilateral Express Highway Project is putting us on a new surface transit mode never observed in India. The and the , needless to say, are taking a new look, for now it means dealing with high-speed traffic.
A toll road built by private builders in Delhi although proved to be an amazing time and effort-saving alternative, it turned into a killer passage before the road authority intervened to have it paved with speed breakers. Now that is a great put off. The traffic regulators should have intervened to have a check-punish system. You just cannot go on paving your roads with speed breakers and rubble strips which damage our vehicles seriously. One may have to go for several axle changes owing to this.
Looks like road authorities in India are gearing up to meet up with the change the landscape of the country are going about with up gradation of roads infrastructure.
But on traffic regulations and pedestrian movement there is a lot to be desired. We have provided for the Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and for the motor vehicles but what about pedestrians.
Wherever roads have been widened or flyover passes have been built pedestrians? safety and convenience has got a severe battering. They have to walk long distances to cross roads and often at the risk while facing high-speed traffic. That's not fair.
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