Road Safety in Bengaluru- Is it a dream?

Road safety in Bengaluru has become like a dream that can never be realized, and a never-ending menace. Everyday, there is at least one amongst 1000 who do not return home after striking the roads of Bengaluru. The accidents are on the rise due to poor driving sense of the motorists as well as poor road conditions.
Lack of vision amongst the rulers has resulted in today's plight of the roads. Peak-hour traffic witnesses about 12,000 passenger car units every hour at traffic-dense areas of Hosur Road, Tumkur Road and Mysore Road.
Potholes and craters on roads seem to be an eternal problem. The poor shape of majority of roads in the city also pose a serious threat to the treading motorists, especially during peakhours and during nights. Needless to say what a mess we see during rainy season. Furthermore, the sleeping police which is more popular as the speedbreakers, are another threat on roads. Most unscientifically laid out speedbreakers are a common sight on Bengaluru roads and they are a reason for accidents rather than what should have been otherwise. There was no government during the premonsoon season and so no one really took interest to fill all the potholes of the city before the onset of monsoon.
When it comes to poor road safety due to poor dribving sense, noteworthy is the fact that a minimum of 5,000 traffic violations take place in Bangalore everyday, and this is shockingly nation's high figure and you now know the gravity of the situation in Namma Bengaluru.
Traffic police seem to conduct road safety campaigns for about a week once in a while but they are hardly any takers or followers of the safety rules.
To tackle the problem of traffic rule violators, levying on-spot fines is just not enough. As a small step forward to check on violators it is learnt that, traffic police (even the lower-rung officials)will soon be equipped with BlackBerry mobile handsets soon. Police will try to catch traffic defaulters with the help of these BlackBerry sets. The database of the violators will be recorded in the sets and will work in conjunction with a central server and repeat violators will be penalised three times the fine and I guess this system should keep a check on traffic violation.
On a pilot basis CCTVs were installed at specific junctions such as the Manipal Junction and Coffee Board Junction and traffic police are on a way to permanently install them at few more points in the city where density is high, not just to ease the traffic congestion but also to have an eye and put a curb on the erring motorists.
Earlier night traffic was not much but with the drag race culture and the night-operating BPOs, the night-time traffic is not any better. Reckless driving is one prime reason for several serious traffic accidents on Bengaluru roads, especially during nights. It was only a week that the city witnessed a major accident involving death of two teenagers and seriously injury of three youths on the Bangalore-Mysore road during late night hours. The reason was found to be rash driving of the driver who lost control on vehicle. This rash driving or drag racing has become a recent trend amongst the upwardly mobile youths who feel reckless driving as a style statement on roads. These motorists have to be dealt with very seriously and should be sent to training sessions on good driving sense.
One right step by the BJP government in this direction should be to coax government servants to use more of public transport and better is to start an incentive scheme for them to initiate the drive of using only public transport and refrain them from using private transport.