This is me going blah blah again on a topic which I have seen on the roads of my country. This time it’s the Traffic signals that have my attention. To all of us across the world RED light @ the signals signifies to STOP, AMBER (that’s the color I believe) is I guess to slow down your pace to Zilch & GREEN is definitely GO. But here it’s the complete opposite; I mean people are literally color blind to these signals.
People here don’t respect the signal (Me being no different). It’s the chalta hai attitude that sucks big time. For instance if there are no cop patrolling the signal’s (that’s the case most of the time) it is mandatory to break the signal; not doing so is a crime. There are places where people respect the signal even at the hour not required (read 02:00 am).
Then there are the famed ZEBRA CROSSING, now usually these are meant for pedestrians to CROSS the road, but here these are meant for cars crossing them when sometime they do take a pause at the lights (with their engine running of course); not because of the big RED dot on the side road, but to prevent their pockets being cut by the bribe loving thulla’s.
Can’t we all try & respect the person who invented the three lights if not the lights.
CIAO………….
