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Philip Thomas, You have said it right. I am just coming home from a trip to Campal Panjim. I usually take the St. Inez route rather than the Mandovi route. It so happened that the traffic here was so stuck up that it took me almost half hour to reach Campal from St. Inez. Not knowing what the trouble was, I took the fire-brigade route to Campal and got stuck there. I couldn't go left towards Miramar as the road was being hot-mixed. Therefore I walked to get my job done. My return trip via St. Inez took more than one hour to reach Don Bosco. ( I was driving a four wheeler) I have never seen such a traffic jam in Goa in all my life. It was like Lagos in the70's and Bangkok in the 80's. The famous 'Go slow' The question is: If the Campal road was being hot-mixed, why was is not being done in the night when the traffic is minimal? Why during the peak hours? There was no sign of Traffic Offficers. One lone Traffic havaldar was handling the traffic at the junction of Gomantak Times. When I was returning, he too had vanished. Vehicles were screaming through their horns and going left right and centre. It was a free for all. I even saw some people parking their vehicles (cars) wherever they could and walk. Perhaps they were the locals. The SP (Traffic) North along with Manohar Parrikar must be CASTRATED for this most gross lapse. Goans are being taken for a jolly good ride. If they knew that the main Miramar-Campal road was being barricaded, there should have been a platoon of traffic cops on duty with their mobile vans to control traffic in this small area. And if the job was well handled, this diversion was a joke, really. It was a pity to see the home going school children in packed buses taking in all that carbon monoxide in the sweltering heat. The excuse that "To get good things one must bear hardships" is no excuse at all in this case, because no one is interested in seeing the movies at this cost. Floriano goasuraj ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 10:36 AM Subject: [Goanet]COST OF MULTIPLEX ... > RE: Goan Voices' of Nov 21 on the subject > > Both sides seem to have missed the real point of the whole issue. That is > the TOTAL LACK of attention to a host of governance problems in the state > due to the CM's pre-occupation with IFFI/Exposition infrastructure projects. > Exposition was known 10 years in advance. Why the last minute rush to build > bypasses and bus stands? IFFI is for only a small audience. Why was there a > need to turn things topsy turvy for its sake? By spreading out the load > properly valuable governmental attention could also have been given to the > host of problems bedevilling this promising state. >