Successive government have been just constructing Roads and Roads and widening existing Roads. All they are doing is covering more and more area of the fixed area of Goa with Tarmac. And the building lobby is covering it with concrete. Where is our Goa headed to? Village roads are being widened by destroying people's houses and compound walls. Footpaths are built on usurped private property that owners have kept as setback. Acquisition is done in some cases by illegal means, when objection raised are deliberately ignored instead of referring them to District Courts. Compensations are not paid to public for last 25 years and more, but siphoned out illegally. What happened to Lakhs of Compensation money that went missing from South District Collectorate? People have been frequenting the Collectorate for last 25 years! Our Illiterate and Ignorant Politicians, as well as many Goans think that more roads and wider roads is "Development". That wider roads will decrease road congestion. Dubai has 6 to 8 lanes roads, but still mornings and evenings there are traffic jams. WHY? Everyone has a car there, besides all Companies/Business establishments have plenty of cars. Good governance in such cases is to limit number of vehicles and have good public transport system; rather than widening roads and destroying our old village heritage; destroying Goan houses, where roads will end up next to their windows. Take the example of Singapore. It is smaller than Goa. Why can Goa not restrict number of vehicles per family? Let extra vehicles be heavily taxed. Also let us see discipline maintained on the roads rather than just helmets fines.
Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.
