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No thought behind speed limits placed on Goan roads

Speed limits put on Goan Roads seem to have no thought behind them and can be predicted even by a child. Having been arbitrarily put, from Ponda to Panaji it's mostly 50 km/h without any Indication of end of speed limit. Our roads are used by heterogeneous traffic where we find from cycles to Mercedes cars using same lane, so imagine what average speed car will get to travel from Ponda to Panaji and to add to the problem, private passenger buses sometimes drive at snail's pace to adjust to competition and those talking on phone are not at all aware that there is serpentine queue behind them honking for way.

The engineers and police are not aware of minimum speed limit signboards, hence these have not been erected. Now in this situation if you cannot maintain average speed by driving at higher speed wherever there is good motorable road, than Imagine how much time one will take to reach Panaji. It will be not less than two hours.


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Traditional pathway at Alto Palmar neglected

BABLUIS PEREIRA, Pomburpa
Published Jun 3, 2023, 9:57 PM IST
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In the Village Panchayat of Pomburpa-Olaulim under the Aldona Constituency at Alto Palmar-Pomburpa there exists a traditional foot access (pathway) which is the only access to all the 9 residential houses on the hilly terrain since time immemorial.  It falls in the Ward No. 7 and it has been serving as an inlet and outlet for the ingress and egress for the whole residents of the Ward. At 2 places it has altogether 52 steps which was built decades ago, these steps are…

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