The Prime Minister and others glorifying the speed culture on our highways should read this and ponder. Hundreds of vehicles ran over a man on the highway near Miraj in Maharashtra , parts of his body were scattered all over. No driver cared to stop. This is speed culture for you.
https://countercurrents.org/2022/12/highway-and-metro-opened-by-mr-modi-are-a-disaster/
Already the Samruddhi Mahamarg is proving to be a disaster. Every independent report points that way. Accidents have started occuring immediately, wild animals are being killed, there is poor infrastructure, no fuel stations for over 100 km stretches, no restrooms, no greenery. And all this with a heavy toll, a car journey between Nagpur and Mumbai would cost almost Rs 1200.
Car culture is being promoted without any safeguards for ordinary people, now even school children are at high risk. A drunk driver rammed a school bus with 40 students into an auto rickshaw in Navi Mumbai recently. In Nashik district five students were killed in a car crash.
Serious questions need to be asked about the cost benefit ratio. Thousands of crores of rupees could have been much better used in improving the bus service. And the waiting time between one Metro service and another is half an hour, can you believe it ? You have to wait for half an hour for the train and the fare is Rs 20. It would be foolish to take the Metro when you can easily take the bus at frequent intervals for Rs, 15.
The media all over has been silenced, one may say bought over so one never gets a true picture, one only gets PR public relations laudatory pieces. This is serious blot on media credibility.
by Vidyadhar Date
16/12/2022