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The same old ineffectual bleatings about bad driving

Jul 23, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
Another major traffic accident, another tragedy – eliciting the same old ineffectual bleatings about bad driving. If the media and the Police, and what euphemistically are called ‘stakeholders’ are conscientious, they would admit to their blandishments having a familiar (almost annual) ring, over the past decade.
It is hard to believe that the so-called ‘civil society’ does not feel sufficiently concerned to mobilise and sustain a proactive campaign aimed at forcing the responsible authorities – more pre-eminently the National Road Safety Council (noted for its inactivity) and the Traffic Department of the Guyana Police Force – to bite the bullet and take the initiative (albeit belatedly) to comprehensively address the palpable non-management of the public transportation system in this country.
It is not as if several groups and individuals, including the writer, have not before made substantive proposals for curbing, indeed, preventing the increasing incidence of unnecessary road fatalities, and related injuries to victims; not to mention the immediate grief, and ensuing emotional and economic dislocation of their families.
Again and again, when one considers that large private sector employment, as also government, constitute a considerable proportion of the public transport system, their institutional indifference to the mitigation of accidents, and the loss of life and limb is most befuddling.
The Insurance Companies, who profit from a captive market, somehow do not see their employees and families as possible victims of their inertia in contributing to a strategy of effective traffic safety and control.
Funding of a single traffic sign, particularly the more desperately needed upright ‘STOP’ sign, could make such a difference. It would appear that all these ‘soupplicants’ and their media partners are awaiting a ‘start’ sign before they make one ‘sanctimonious’ move in a positive direction.
One suspects that legal practitioners are at times beneficiaries of litigious traffic issues. So they too lie low – insensitised by ample remuneration.
Somehow, however the defaulters merely blame one another; and will simply continue to do so come same time next year.
E B John

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