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Go Clement, Go Clement…
The Parrot recently read some encouraging news as it relates to noise nuisance, noise pollution and vulgarity through noise which emanates from the road bullies and killer machines: minibuses.
Well in fairness to the service, not all; most. For too long they have exposed commuters to unnecessary risks. Some paid the ultimate price; their life.
Whilst they have operated without regard for law and order on the roads, they were encouraged by some unconscionable commuters, mostly youths, to do so.
Those who were unfortunate to have experienced an “outing” on one of these buses may still be “haunted” and would be sympathetic to those who have this “kulture” forced upon them routinely.
I have squawked about this previously with the hope that the “operators”, for crying out loud, would come to the stark reality that they depend on the commuters for their livelihood.
The service is not about transporting people; it is about a competition of which bus can achieve the highest decibel in lewd music; a competition as to which bus can breach the most red lights; a competition about which bus can carry at any one time the most passengers; a competition as to which bus driver can be the most dangerous; a competition as to which bus can pose the most risks to other road users; a competition as to which bus can achieve the highest velocity as a result of increasing acceleration; a competition as to which bus screens the most sexually graphic images through DVDs; and a competition as to which conductors do not give back the most change.
Commuters who dare to challenge this, what seems to be the status quo, are abused not only by the operators, but by some “fellow” commuters!
Only recently this newspaper carried a report in which some commuters complained about discrimination meted out to them at city parks by some operators.
This abuse can only be explained by the osmotic effect the long years of this unfortunately acceptable “kulture” would have had on them and which would have resulted from the rapid acoustic revolution they experienced.
This revolution has led to an immunisation of their tympanic membrane to intensified decibels. In other words, they have either gotten accustomed to loud music or deaf as a door nail.
This has to be the only immunisation campaign that Leslie and Bheri would not support. However, their colleague, Clement seems bent on not deimmunising the “operators” and to return the “c” in their “kulture”. He has tabled a bill to ban music in public transportation.
I am sure that thousands, in addition to those who attended the recent congress, would be in support of Clement’s Bill.
The Parrot feels that the music is one of the major contributing factors which empower the “operators” to show disdain for commuters and to the “kulturing” of the culture.
The Bill should also address fog lamps which are used to “blind” other drivers, the replacement of the manufacturers’ head lights with halogen ones and tint amongst other irritants.
The Parrot supports Clement’s piloting of the bill and hopes that concurrence would be accelerated. So go Clement, go.
Go speedily; the speed in this case would be accepted. Oh, by the way Clement, some law enforcement officers do own minibuses. Squawk! Squawk!
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