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| Minibuses swerve in choicest directions, "no" traffic rules for them on city roads | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, Dec 30: Minibuses can swerve in the choicest directions and stop in the middle of any city road here to pick and drop commuters but no traffic cop is ever seen taking legal action against them. While their operators do so, several others are put to inconvenience.
Most of the traffic jams on the congested city roads here are caused because of them. When they stop in the middle of the road to pick, or drop a commuter, a long queue of other vehicles is formed behind it. The blaring car horns have no impact on them. No helpless car operator can move forward till the minibus gets to a side.
Even as traffic police cops are omnipresent on the city roads, minibus operators indulge in the worst kind of violation of the traffic norms with impunity from law.
And, instead of booking them under law, the cops are often seen exchanging pleasantries with them.
The traffic police have miserably failed to devise any strategy to ensure smooth traffic on the roads despite the fact that the number of vehicles continued to swell with the passage of every day.
Hardly a day passes when two to three accidents do not occur on the city roads due to traffic mismanagement, or rash driving, or overloading.
Official sources said though the number of vehicles in the winter capital had crossed 5.50 lakh mark, a mechanism to ensure smooth vehicular traffic was still to be devised.
The minibus accident, which some time back claimed the lives of Rajni (20) and Avnish Choudhary (20), both students of Gandhinagar Women College, outside their campus, was the result of rash driving. Had traffic police been strict against those indulging in rash and reckless driving, the tragedy could have been avoided.
Most of the minibus drivers are often seen indulging in overspeeding and overtaking in such a way as if there is no legal authority to punish them. Without caring for the consequences of careless driving, they swerve in all directions and stop in the middle of the road even when traffic is at its peak. They are an important means of public transport in the winter capital city.
The minibuses plying mostly on Gandhi Nagar, Trikuta Nagar, Talab Tillo, Janipur, Bakshi Nagar, Shastri Nagar, Satwari, Bahu Fort, Subash Nagar, Rehari, Amphalla, Muthi and Purkhoo routes were indulging in rash driving.
Traffic police do not book these traffic violators. On the contrary, no one dares to indulge in traffic violation in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Chandigarh due to the fear of cops.
The J&K traffic police were faced with several allegations of corruption on roads. This was said to be the main reason behind the traffic mess.
In the new year 2012, the traffic police need to do a self introspection and do something to improve their "bad" image. |
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