Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Avinash Rajput sent me a mail regarding rail overbridge between Britannia Chowk and Punjab Bagh Flyovers. He had mailed me during May last year citing a problem and traffic cops had assured him to rectify it. He wants the cops to either provide a speed breaker or remove the partition on the road from the rail overbridge. But he complains that nothing has been done so far. He writes, ”Since a long period has elapsed no action has been taken so far. During this month, I again found the said partition road badly damaged which shows that some fatal accidents might have taken place. If a survey is done, you will find a number of accidents have taken place on this particular site. I, therefore, once again request you to kindly inspect the site personally and take appropriate remedial action at your earliest to avoid any further mishap on this site.”Meanwhile, Sharad Kashyap from Yamuna Vihar has written to me regarding a problem. He says, “Madanpura-Tuglaqabad bridge is very dangerous. There are no bus lanes. Buses drive here at 60-70 kmph. Two to three accidents took place in the last three months. There are no police personnel to check the rash truck drivers. Please help me to get to the authorities.”Yesterday there was a BJP rally in the city. Whole of Delhi Traffic Police was concentrating on that rally. This gave an opportunity to our Delhi drivers to make a mockery of law. I was passing through a stretch of Kasturba Gandhi Marg between Leo Tolstoy intersection and Outer Circle of CP and all along the road cars were parked. Throughout the stretch they covered half the road space available to them. In fact, they were parked till the white line, which divides the carriageway. Since all traffic cops were busy in traffic arrangements due to BJP’s yatra, all of these drivers were giving law a ball. Why don’t these vehicle owners act responsibly? Another thing that I have observed is that most of these cars were chauffer driven. Most of the owners in Delhi think that a chauffer is to save you from parking fee. I think that this attitude should change and they should instruct their chauffer to park it in parking areas only and not on the roadside.

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