My Experience with Red Light
I have jumped quite a few signals in India as compared to America and have been wondering why is it so. Is it because of my carelessness, the explosive population, corruption or the management of roads in India. So I thought for a while, observed others vehicles too and here is my analysis of the same.
There are many reasons why people are jumping signals:
1. Cant see ahead because of tall vehicle ahead of you. So one is bound to follow the vehicle and might land oneself in trouble.
2. You are in a hurry and it is “Just In Time Signal”. The signal goes of just a few meters before the crossing and you can make it almost or you can stop. So if you take a chance, you would jump the signal.
3. If you brake suddenly at the signal, your whole inside of the car will come crashing which is anyways unpleasant. You want to make the ride comfortable for the travellers. People might again take a chance to cross the signal ending up breaking it.
Off course, the solution lies in building better infrastructure across the country specially the cities, something like the West. However to avoid further accidents for the time being, we could do the following: Every main signal should be preceded by a synchronized signal 50 meters back. So the first previous signal should go off signalling the driver to stop so that he doesn’t jump or crosses the main final signal. That’s it.
Transport India
Public Infrastructure, India
P.S: This blog is unfortunately not about skin trade
Caution: This might be all theory
Tags: Jumping Signals, Red Signal, RTO, Traffic
