Letters to the Editor
Newsday
Friday 17 Might 2024
– AYANNA KINSALE
THE EDITOR: I’ve been observing site visitors on the busiest former neighbourhood road in San Fernando, and it appears as if many licensed drivers are both oblivious or don’t care.
With sirens blaring, an emergency car (ambulance, hearth engine or police car) is coming down the road. I can hear it. Visitors is flowing in each instructions. I’m positive the approaching emergency car will be seen and heard by these heading in the other way, and seen within the rear view mirrors of these heading in the identical route.
Some drivers forward of the emergency car pace up. Most of these heading towards the oncoming emergency car proceed on as “regular.” Because the emergency car will get to the purpose the place automobiles forward of it have stopped (considerably pulled over), the house opened as much as permit it to go should now be manoeuvred very cautiously and really rigorously, as some oncoming drivers don’t suppose, really feel, or consider pulling over applies to them. Stopping or pulling over on a nook is a separate matter.
The few seconds it takes for the emergency car to go will certainly make drivers and people travelling late. In any case, who needs to be inconvenienced by an approaching or a quickly shifting away emergency car?
With out over-simplifying or stereotyping, we’re an incentivised folks. Rewards or penalties are essential for compliance.
As for that former neighbourhood road now a significant thoroughfare, a site visitors administration technique, reminiscent of decreased pace restrict aside from emergency automobiles, pace humps, cameras, or a mixture of them, must be applied.
DAVID RAGOBAR
through e-mail
…. to be continued
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