A One Stop Solution to Bangalore's Traffic Woes
Are you ready for this?
This idea is pure gold, but you have to remember that you cannot make an omlette without breaking eggs, and on a similar note , you cannot enforce traffic rules in Bangalore without having a few heads roll. Small price to pay for regulated and smooth flowing of traffic in the city.
There are three main issues that plague people that commute in Bangalore on the roads:
1) speeding rash drivers
2) a complete lack of lane discipline
3) disrespecting traffic signals
Assuming that the speed guards responsible for curtailing the speeding vehicles behave effectively (though we know that most vehicle owners tend to remove it with the help of a skilled mechanic), issue (1) is solved to a reasonable degree.
Issue (2) can be solved by having specific lanes for cyclists, people on motor bikes, cars and buses. Four lanes of variable width, with permission for only those vehicles to ply on them. In order to ensure that vehicles of a particular type don't cross over into another lane, we put into place a fool proof measure that will make people think twice about violating lane discipline.
Barbed wire fences.
Yes. Barbed wire would ensure that people who try to cross over would be poked, and this would provide them with ample motivation to stick to their lanes. Plus, it isn't really that easy to cross over from one lane to another when there is barbed wire put into place to prevent one from doing just that!
Issue (3) can be resolved by having a temporary electrified fence that will hold traffic back at a signal until it turns green. What happens to anyone wanting to jump the traffic signal is something you can figure out for yourself.
Of course, there has to be a reasonable infrastructure upheaval for this to take place, but I am assuming that when a certain Aswath Venkataraman a.k.a Kodhi becomes the supreme dictator of this country, he will overlook the fact that I am a wannabe green terrorist and let me take over the reins of Bangalore city.
Once two or three generations of motorists have been conditioned to drive/ride properly, it will be a beautiful summer day in 2100 when people in Bangalore city can ride their vehicles in peace without losing their heads, after all these disciplinary restrictions have been removed.