Wednesday, November 17, 2004

After a long time Rakesh Kumar Jaggi has mailed me. He writes, “It is indeed encouraging to see some improvements and change of the mind set of the people towards the traffic-related epidemic. Firstly, I would like to very much appreciate the think tank of traffic control around the trade fair for charting out the realistic plan and implementing it with complete resolve. “I feel sad that our media is not contributing enough towards the improvement of traffic-related problems. I must say that the electronic media is very passive on the subject due to non-glamorous nature of the subject. It is very common of the electronic media to highlight some pick-pocketing incident or other minor crime but not at all bothered about the traffic-related subjects. “It is very sad to see no cheers in any of the electronic media or appreciation of the good efforts and effectiveness of the traffic planning by the concerned authorities. Also, the print media has taken it very lightly inspire of its gigantic nature in general. I strongly feel that the following listed factors are very much instrumental in improvement of traffic in our country.1. The traffic related manners and etiquettes must be taught in primary schools and continued till the professional levels.2. The traffic-related meetings must be held at community centres or even at slum centres or in social centres. Traffic is related to all of us and the repercussions are felt by all of us without any bias. 3. The authorities concerned must work collectively to implement the traffic rules and civic authorities must provide the necessary required support on utmost priority. 4. The need to share and offer sharing in private vehicles must be encouraged with some special appreciation. I am of the strong belief that in fact, we do not have very big traffic problem but it has been made big by all of us. We do not cooperate or coordinate for our own good unless until forced to do so. This is very clear from the movement of the traffic at and around trade fair. We simply do not have driving etiquettes and try to look on others as some one has stolen something. We must think the traffic-related problem as National problem not bound to our cities or towns or states. If, our authorities, media, judiciary and politicians collectively endorse and support this issue then within couple of years, we can be a model for others.“I would like to once again applause the efforts of traffic police and other concerned authorities to show to all of us that nothing is impossible and we are capable of achieving anything and everything.”Well, definitely traffic police deserves applause for their traffic management during trade fair.

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