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Citizens have been noticing the high incidence of accidents on our roads, but the authorities have not come up with a workable solution for this problem. They seemed to have found a solution for the high number of murders and not the accidents. I believe that with the dismantling of the gangs and many gang members losing their lives in confrontations with the police, this has resulted in a drop in murders. More dawg heart killers are out there, and they are probably waiting on the police to take a little break.
The problems we are facing on our roads and the number of murders can be traced to the mental stability of the people.
I received the following videos of an accident involving multiple vehicles, which happened on Washington Boulevard recently. Are you aware of this accident? If you have information, let me know when and where this incident happened.
I am still hoping to get a report from the police. This would help to minimise the fake news being circulated.
Do you have any suggestions on how we can deal with these challenges?
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Just a note that there is "DRAG RACING" on Half WayTree Road at nights between Retirement Road and Oxford Rd intersection up and down.
ReplyDeleteBe careful on that space after 10PM and it is more intense on the weekends.
The police should perhaps monitor that area at nights before the worst happens including deadly accidents.
The problem with us in Jamaica is that we take a long time to act on anything and wait until it becomes entrenched and unbearable before we decide to act and do something about the problem. A stitch in time saves nine.
ReplyDeleteYears ago when we got rid of the JOS buses, we opened up the door to allow any and everybody to enter into the public transportation business. With that came the culture of lawlessness and unrulyness. I recall the numerous incidents of buses slamming into bus stops and killing people because they were racing. I know someone who lost their 12 year old daughter during that time because the bus driver was racing and ran the stoplight.
I remember people fighting off each other to get into the few buses and the dirty, smelly conductors fraternizing with school girls and the nasty music. I remember being appalled at the most disgusting music being played on the buses but looked around me and realised that the adults were not protesting. I remember our people's dignity being taken away as they were herded into buses packed like sardines. I was a child then in my early teens but I remember. I thought to myself that this bus system is bringing out the worst in our people and has introduced mayhem and indiscipline on the roads.
We don't seem to think that when we introduce something that we should take time to evaluate and adjust, we just allow it to continue, even if it is not working out. We have since introduced JUTC, but we still have remnants of that system lingering in the behaviours of our taxi operators. The legacy has remained because certain behaviours had already become entrenched. It is easier to socialise and influence people to do wrong, but if you want to modify their behaviour and have them do what is right, then you have to employ an expensive behaviour-change intervention programme, which takes years. We could have saved ourselves all this distress if we acted sooner. Now we need a three-pronged or 5-pronged approach involving enforcement, surveillance (CCTV), house cleaning of the exam depot, and early socialisation on proper road use, way before a child reaches his or her teen years. This is not an overnight fix and it will take years, just as it did with our murder rate.