Nagpurians save a lot of petrol…
March 10, 2009
We had a first hand experience of this today afternoon. While we were going around city streets, we found that Nagpurians dont have time to wait at the signal. Red, Green or Orange – all colours mean the same. We moved across fifteen different squares. Only three of the squares had policemen on duty. At the rest of the squares, there was utter disregard to the traffic lights. People moved around as if traffic lights did not exist, unmindful of the danger they are creating for themselves and others.
Those who follow signals end up looking like fools or getting run over by traffic from behind. At one of the squares in the posh civil lines area, We ended up being alone waiting for the green signal. Traffic flowed freely from all the roads at the square. We had to pinch ourselves to make sure we were not day dreaming about the traffic signal.
Be it a National Highway square, or city interior square or any busy square – Nagpurians dont like to wait at traffic signals. And they end up saving a lot of petrol. We think policemen be not deployed at the city squares as they unnecessarily end up making people wait at signal. After all natural resources are so scarce!
Well, its altogether a new thought put behind signal breakers. In fact their case just got stronger due to “natural resource” argument.
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I’d love to save some petrol
To counter the natural resource argument, “signal followers” can say “Switch off the engine at the signal”.
But then again, the “signal breakers” can argue that switching engine on-off would lead to wastage of petrol.
“signal followers” can say: use the clock at signal that shows seconds left for the green signal, to decide whether to switch off or not. “signal breakers” can say we can reach our destination by the time we decide to switch off or not!
The debate can continue endlessly…