Month: August 2017

Another major problem is the lack of proper pavements in most parts of panaji. Most middle class people in panaji,especially those who were bought up in goa, are driving a vehicle, so they refuse to understand the problems faced by pedestrians.

If a person who has studied initially in goa has relocated to a metro city for work, he or she may not know driving as most metro cities have an excellent and fairly reliable public system. The security agencies in goa are torturing older people when they try to learn driving

While walking may not be fashionable, it allows the person walking to have a closer look at his or her surroundings, at the real problems faced. Water logging is a major problem, and one of the worst areas is area in front of the water supply department PWD in St Inez, Panaji where those who walk have to wade in the dirty puddle of water after heavy rainfall.

Fixing the problem would be relatively simple for the local government authorities, just dumping some pebbles, rubble will reduce water logging, however no one cares, they are too busy with organized stalking of harmless citizens to steal their resume, retirement savings, correspondence and memory.

In addition to overspeeding drivers who exceed the permissible speed limit, other road zombies are drivers who break traffic rules, like driving with one hand, while speaking on the mobile phone.

Routinely two wheeler and car drivers are spotted speaking on their mobile phone while driving with a single hand. These drivers are aware of the fact that there is no one monitoring them, so they are free to try any stunt without being questioned, putting their life and the life of others in danger.

Usually most of these one handed drivers are young and can easily stop for some time to take the phone call, or speak to the person who called later as mobile phones have a missed call facility

Fining drivers who exceed the speed limit can be a very lucrative source of income for the state government and also reduce the number of accidents in the state. If the vehicle drivers are aware that their speed is being monitored closely and they are likely to be fined, they will be far more careful.

However almost no measures are being taken to monitor the traffic in the state and take action against those who break the speed limit and other rules. This is unlike foreign countries like united kingdom, where the speed of vehicles on the highway is automatically monitored using the latest technology and speeding tickets are issued, often with minimal human intervention.

Compared to other cities especially Mumbai, in goa, there is less consideration for pedestrians, most of their problems are completely ignored especially in panaji. In many areas there are almost no footpaths for them to walk safely and during the monsoon, waterlogging makes the roads very narrow, pedestrians have to wade through dirty water.