Barricades or ??

A casual glance through the local newspapers just tempt me to have a dig at the happenings around us.. however, I’ll try not to be too hard. Ok?

The word of caution first. Of late we, Coimbatoreans, have been seeing a lot of barricades being placed on the roads at vantage points, like road crossings, schools, dangerous turnings etc. Quite a commendable job by the Corporation actually, but had these barricades erected featured some of the warnings with the use of reflective stickers, they would have served the purpose more effectively during the late hours too. And thus would have not attracted the wrath of the public (in some cases) and that of the press. The reason the press has taken up the issue is that some of these barricades pose a threat to motorists where the road lighting is poor (or the road/street lights do not exist completely for that matter), and in the few cases of accidents caused by these road barricades, in the night, - the reason is that those citizens have come riding on the road under the influence of alcohol. So, there is no point in blaming the road barricades alone, or the poor street lighting in some places as reason for the accidents. We, the citizens have to take an effort not to drive motor vehicles after consuming liquor.