[sustran] Re: FW: India - Bosch Horn commercial

[Sarath Guttikunda]

Good points.

I can only quote one example, close to my residence in Delhi.

Along the BRT lane, there is a provision for the  cyclists, 2 meter lane,
which is a great idea. As you get close to the Chirag Dili flyover (from
north), because of the increasing congestion at the junction, the traffic
management decided to convert at least 200m of the cycle lane into a left
only lane for the motor vehicles.

Which is also fine, helps with the congestion and speed up the left turns
(India - we drive on the left side). Now, the annoying thing is when car
drivers honk at the cycles and cycle rickshaws who are in the lane and
obviously going slower than them.. drivers get annoyed at their presence.
And I get annoyed at the drivers honking !!

So, two questions.. (1) driver's indiscipline when given an opportunity to
use a section which does not belong to them and (2) when did a plan for
promoting NMT become an excuse for road expansion?

With regards,
Sarath
(Not a Car Owner)

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Sarath Guttikunda
New Delhi, India
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@ http://www.urbanemissions.info
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Sunny Kodukula <sunny.enie at gmail.com>wrote:

> Sorry Kanthi, I am not satisfied and when a pedestrian is treated like a
> moving "thing" on the street (not even a road) which will make way with
> sound, this is really sad and also not treating other humans alike,
> forget the animals that's another story for the blue cross.
>
> I like the word pedestrian "indiscipline", if the people walk on roads
> it is indiscipline and cars go in the middle of two lanes it is
> perfectly fine. Our cities we try to control the people who cross the
> roads at grade than trying to control the cars that do not stick to
> lanes. Anyway, Who is Bosch to decide what pedestrian indiscipline is!
>
> The lady in the commercial always had the option to leave her car behind
> and walk in the "narrow" street. So Bosch is actually supporting people
> driving cars in narrow streets and also to honk.
>
> those were my 2 cents
>
> cheers
> sunny
>
>