Explanation of How to Reduce Road Accidents: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar

Introduction:

Apart from many obvious causes; the major cause of accidents and related problems; is excessive production and marketing of small vehicles of individual use (small cars and two wheelers) instead of vehicles (buses, trams, trains) of comfortable mass transport. The immediate step to reduce the road accidents is improvement of public (mass) transport by quantitative and qualitative improvement in production, marketing, maintenance, frequency and service of buses, trams and trains etc. All the following and such many ideas and their effective implementation are born out of, evolved through and empowered by NAMASMARAN, which is a simple, inexpensive and universal way of self realization.

Before taking steps it is essential to realize that excessive increase in number of vehicles on roads (apart from other overemphasized factors) leads to increase in the number of vehicular accidents and causes: congestion and unnecessary load on traffic control system, commensurate increase in fuel consumption causing chemical pollution and also in import expenses; leading to increase of fuel prices and subsequent increase in the food prices, increase in wear and tear of roads, increase in accidents due to bad condition of roads, increase in the maintenance expenses and disturbance and delay to smooth traffic, increase in noise pollution results due to; blowing of horns; which is especially troublesome; to hospitals, schools, and other places; where silence is essential, traffic jams adding to further increase in fuel consumption and wastage of time, disastrously affecting the performance and/or productivity of the people of different occupations, increase in vehicular exhaust causing global warming, load on local trains and other means of public transport [where ever available] and consequent accidents, quarrels and mishaps, increase in tardiness in the traffic and increase in anxiety and tension, further increasing the quarrels, traffic crimes the number and severity of accidents and difficulty in providing medical aid (and disaster management) due to difficulty in movement of ambulances and fire fighters, reduction in eco-friendly bicycles production and sale, due to “imposing and threatening” presence of cars, motorcycles, rickshaws, scooters, increase in wasteful work; such as insurance, registration and traffic policing, increase (due to difficulty in enforcing law and order) riots, thefts etc due to slowing of police movement, excessive production of un-degradable solid waste, increase in cement or asphalt roads at the cost of irreplaceable trees (extremely important for avoiding global warming, pollution, rain and organic manure) and open earth surface (extremely important and vital for absorbing and holding rain water) and unnecessary disruption of the natural habitat of the animals.

Steps
1. Verify the facts described in the introduction by collecting relevant statistics from your own region as well as other cities in developed and developing countries about road accidents.
2. Calculate how the number of small vehicles increases on road due to 1 to 4 persons traveling per vehicle as against 30 to 40 people traveling in buses or hundreds of people traveling in metros and trains.
3. Give a feedback, through email, twit or other ways; to the policy makers about how controlled production and promotion of small vehicles due to either lack of policy or a wrong policy and its implementation; increase problems; apart from the road accidents.
4. Spread the above fact and the fact that diseased model of individualistic progress promotes multiplication of small vehicles of individual transport, which is detrimental to common global welfare; extensively through possible means.
5. Share extensively the the fact that this is one of the fall outs of mismanaged stress, which leads to psychological, neurological, endocrine and metabolic disturbances, which are reflected in the accident prone driving and wrong policy making.
6. Practice NAMASMARAN, which is a simple way of meditation to overcome stress, which otherwise leads to frustration and withdrawal or delirium and malevolence and direct or indirect support and promotion of policies responsible for multiplying accidents.
7. While sharing this solution with others; frankly admit that it has to be further buttressed by adding suitable details and/or refinement by the conscientious and enlightened experts in this field.
8. Make determined efforts; as otherwise it is difficult to influence policies; as in absence of eradicating the root; the problem will continue to will keep getting aggravated, even if many other piecemeal measures are taken.

Tips
Try to look at the suggestions objectively so that you can appreciate their importance, effectiveness and urgency.

Warnings

Remember that one wrong policy leads to multiple evils.
Remember that we tend to underestimate our capacity to influence wrong policies and indirectly support them.