When I noticed an ambulance finding hard to carve its way through the serpentine queues of vehicles minutes and meters away from its destination, the Goa Medical College, I was disheartened.
The ongoing road construction has narrowed a multiple lane road into a single lane causing massive traffic jams. There are traffic police manning at the junction (catching law breakers) but that's the least they can do.
The workers and officers on the site were unmoved by this plight of ambulance because for them it is business as usual. The driver of the ambulance must have wanted his vehicle to have magical legs that would manoeuvre him through the imbroglio.
In such road expansions, the authorities always keep a service road that is untarred, potholed and so narrow hampering smooth movement of traffic. GMC is the next Cortalim.
I ask, why the authorities failed to comprehend such an emergency situation could arise at such a critical location where every second counts for the patient to reach to the hospital?
