P.M.T ....Pune Muncipal Transport..no i am not going to write here about how old are they ( on an average 15 yrs old making it as the Pune's most polluting element), not about how CO-OPERATIVE the bus drivers and conductors are, not about how frequently the buses are ON TIME...and even not about the luxurious conditions about the buses and Bus stops (Do they exist at all??)...here am going to focus on how we can avoid the traffic chaos causing by buses standing in the middle of the road and commuters trying to catch them in midst of other vehicles.
Look at the picture....
In my opinion its the "BUS STOPS" and not the "BUSes" which are causing this situation.
Have you ever noticed that whenever we drive in central city areas we always just keep on looking ways to overtake BUS if its ahead of us.... why?? because all we know if you get struck behind BUS on any a busy road its gonna take hell lot of time unless that road ends or you prefer some other road.. because you just cant simply cross the BUS....(and its very irritating i know.."अडकलो यार" "लागली आता ". "तरी तुला सांगत होतो" "या बसच्या ना @#@#" .)
Let me explain you, Normally at every bus stop, bus stops for 15-20 seconds only but resulting to stop 50 more vehicles behind it... at each stop these number goes on increaing and increasing..and causing T R A F F I C .
Just take an example of Laxmi Road...on an average 3 or 4 buses are passing by on it at the same time ... and you can imagine how serious is this..
So what they do it here....meaning of BUS STOP for them to be precisely is "Additional" space to stop the bus.
At every Bus stop they have given some additional space just outside the road. so whenever bus takes stop it will not stand in the middle of the road blocking all other vehicles . See the picture below , it explains all..
I have seen these kind of bus stops almost everywhere... in some cases its extra lane for buses where its going to stop..(m not at all expecting this in city like pune where you dont have space for walking even)..
So question is can we do it also...??? Can we make this EXTRA space on roads like laxmi road??
i dont have have answers to these but just one thought in mind..अतिक्रमणाच्या नावाखाली धार्मिक वास्तु हलवता येतात ना तुम्हाला मग हे का नाही जमणार ??
Good one ... This article should be publish in sakal... with the title "BusStop n not the Bus"
ReplyDeleteJust FYI, this practice has been followed on J M road at Sambhaji Park from past few years. But it sucks when bus is entering the BusStop and when bus coming out of that stop to main road.. The bus driver think himself of the King of the road when he takes the bus out into the road from the bus stop ...n everybody behind him must stop.
One more thing i noticed here is that all commuters always give preference to pass the Bus first...i dont know whether its in their rule book or not...its very good practice. and not to mention Bus drivers always check for other commuters while coming on the main road.
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