Chief Minister Pramod Sawant while speaking at the 44th anniversary of the Kadamba Transport Corporation Limited (KTCL) at the KTC Bus Terminal, Panaji on Saturday, on the occasion of Dussehra has expressed serious concern over road accidents and has appealed to the people travelling long distances mostly on two wheelers to use KTC buses in a bid to avoid risk of accidents. Sounds like a good suggestion but... Well, the reason why most people (especially from the interior Goan villages) are seen today using their own two/four wheeler vehicles and causing traffic congestion cum accidents everywhere is because our public transport service system has totally collapsed & is almost in the ICU, if not dead in most interior parts of Goa. I therefore feel that if the government really wants to stop traffic congestion/accidents in the state then it should rejuvenate the public transport service system on top priority basis, launch a number of e-buses throughout the state to improve the existing quality public transport service and carry out repairs of all the horrible roads in interior villages.
