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Originally Posted by nickatnite  parking in "No Parking" zones. |
The "No Parking Zone" story: Government allows supermarkets, shopping plaza's, malls and banks to come up with barely any arrangement for parking. Most of these have their entrances almost on the road. Then there is parking chaos and to stop it the government notifies that road as a no parking zone. They then start towing cars and make money. There is one such supermarket coming up near my house and this one doesn't have a parking spot for even one car. Yes, I am serious. The road is the busy Sion-Trombay road that takes you from Mumbai to Navi Mumbai and onto Pune. There is also a mall coming up on the same road. The road is a 3 lane road. The supermarket doesn't have any parking spots. There will be double parking on the road as everyone will want his car parked right in front of the enterance and in no time a 3 lane 'superhighway' will be turned into a by lane. If a layman like me can see the upcoming chaos why can't the expereinced IIT passed out engineers and city planners?
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Govt. can only do so much.
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Let the government first do the 'only so much' that they can.
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How many citizens in India pay taxes vis-a-vis the entire population?.
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Not too many but the government by their own admission were shocked at the high tax collections that they made in the last quarter of 2007. Where does the money go?
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Where do you think the money for good roads is going to come from?.
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The government is charging toll from every vehicle that enters and leaves Mumbai for 'maintainence of roads and improving road infrastructure.' Any small silly road thats made in India is now becoming a toll road. They also levy a surcharge on petrol and diesel sold for the same. .This is something that not many people know. Add one time tax, excise and various taxes on 'luxury items like cars' and I don't think the government is in any need of money to make good roads. After all this what do we get? Highways with paver blocks, potholed roads, roads with no safety or basic direction boards due to which drivers get confused and this results in traffic chaos, many accidents are because under construction roads have no warning signs. I could write about this with real examples and photographs all day!
By the way, toll on the Mumbai-Pune expressway has been hiked. And if I remember correctly, some bridges on that so called expressway also have paver blocks/tiles!