Max and Jessie Rasquinha, Mangalore, Houston/Dallas, texas

What a nice contribution from the KMC students in promoting the road safety awareness in Mangalore thru their street play. Road safety is a growing concern in and around Manglore due to the fact that the population is increasing and so also due to growing affluence the road traffic is also increasing thru growing per capita of vehicles, scooters, rickshaws and even busses. The roads will always narrow and congested with growing traffic with the ancient narrow streets still prevailing.

What is the next solution? Some of the essential ways to improve the road safety are the following:-

a) Keep the roads clean by taking away all the scattered debris and make space for more traffic.;
b) Plan some of the fly-overs now so that some of them can come into share after few years.
c) Provide some overhead bridges so that able young people can cross across the roads if possible.
d) Allocate more policemen on the road to control the traffic with or without the traffic lights.
e) Allocate few days of the week for one way traffic when the traffic is beyond control.
f) Enforce strict laws for any violators of traffic.
g) Plan parking places in some of the outskirts of the City so that people can walk for short distance.
h) Expand the pedestrian walk-aways without any roadside vendors and blocking the pathway.
I) No parking or temporary halts on the main roads at any time.

There are so many ways to modify the present mode of traffic movements, including the presence of student traffic volunteers that can watch and guide the traffic in peak hours.

Each and every development in and around City for the next ten years should be view on the strength of improving traffic conditions and traffic regulations.

Best of luck

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