Anarchy on the roads

NOT a single day passes without news of deaths of pedestrians under the wheels of wayward vehicles or people killed due to head on collision between two buses. In a matter of 48 hours not only was a renowned journalist killed after being hit, while alighting, by the very bus he was traveling in, but two students in different parts of the country also became victims of reckless drivers who couldn't care less about the safety of others.

The police and the other related agencies have failed utterly to ensure the safety of passengers of public transports or for that matter the unsuspecting pedestrian or rickshaw passenger who hardly knows what hit him or her. If that were not the case then any agency with a sense of dignity and self respect would have moved much sooner to do something to correct the pathetic situation.

It is not only the reckless drivers, who find in the violation of traffic rules the only justification of their existence, who are to blame for the mayhem on the streets but also the police who get paid to overlook the violation of the rules. And when public representatives become not only owners of buses but, in some cases, also head the owners' association, there is bound to be conflict of interest. That is why we do not see the errant drivers brought to justice.  

We implore the authorities, who seem to be in hibernation, to wake up and do something quickly to reverse the present situation.