4th September, 2010
Mind your driving, the guests are watching!
Posted by Navin Harish - 5 Comments
Trials for blue lanes are on. Today onwards if you are driving in the blue lane, the cops will stop you to educate you on the blue line (they may take a small tuition fee as well). If you are like me, you must have seen blue patches on some of Delhi roads and wondered what they are. Well, that is blue lane, reserved for Commonwealth Games traffic.
From 20th September to 16th October, if you are caught driving in the blue lane, you will be fined Rs 2000. I must say the amount of fine is substantial enough to discourage people from breaking that particular rule.
It Is good to have people in our city put on their best behavior when the guests are visiting. Won’t it be better if we observe the same discipline even when those visitors are not here. I know it would be difficult for us to have the same amount of discipline without a little push from the authorities.
How about having similar fines for people breaking other traffic rules like jumping red signals, driving with high beam on, unnecessary honking, driving on the wrong side and so on. And why just traffic, why not fine other offenders who litter the city or spit pan.
Wishful thinking?
Tags: commonweakth games, cwg 2010, delhi, driving
Filed under: delhi
5 Comments
James
September 4th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Ha Ha. So right. The traffic rules must be made stricter and the fines should be high enough to pinch. That is the only way to discipline the Indian drivers
Parminder Singh
September 5th, 2010 at 11:21 am
If we can imbibe the discipline you are talking about, Delhi can become one of the most livable city in the world.
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Mritunjay
September 5th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Laaton ke bhoot baaton se nahin maante
Navin Harish
September 5th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
@Mritunjay Not necessarily. You just have to set expectations right. You can see how the same people behave and act differently in Delhi Metro and in trains. They know no nonsense will be tolerated in Metro so they behave accordingly, the don’t damage property, they don’t spit paan, they don’t smoke while they do all of this in the trains.
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