--- N Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Hello every one,
> 
> Thanks to the responses received on my initial mail
> through goanet. I received a surprise phonecall 
> from one Mr.Mascharenhas, Dona paula, who wanted to 
> meet me urgently to-day, as he had to go and meet 
> some one in the Government regarding the ever 
> increasing traffic problems of Goa.
> 
> He is an engineer by profession and has returned
> from Germany. 
>
Mario observes:
>
Mr. Chandrasekharan,
I am constantly amazed and amused by the angst about
traffic in India and Goa.
>
Unless you pass a law REQUIRING every driver licensed
in Goa, from 2-wheelers to multi-axle vehicles, to
undergo remedial driver training and testing, where
the fundamentals of driving ethics are driven home and
accepted as a condition of re-licensing by a certain
deadline, followed by strict enforcement of traffic
laws starting no earlier than that deadline, you are
wasting your time and energy.
>
Then what do you do about the narrow, often unmarked 
roads, the traffic density, the "pedestrians" and
assorted "quadestrians", and out-of-state drivers?
>
Please tell Mr. Mascarenhas from Germany, from me, a
resident of the US, that Goan and Indian traffic will
trend towards the picture-perfect conditions that
apply in Germany and the US about the same time that
throwing thrash wherever convenient, spitting all over
the place and urinating in public will be abolished in
India.
>
While this may sound cynical, it also reflects
reality.  Traffic rules in particular and civic sense
in general are just not a priority in India, including
Goa.
>
In the meantime, every driver should pay close
attention to the "temporary maniac" in the next
vehicle, and drive very, very defensively, before
everyone returns to perfect sanity as soon as their
vehicles are parked:-))
>


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