Each one of us, at some time or the other, has pitied the sorry state of affairs as far as the traffic in our metropolis is concerned. The complete disregard for traffic rules and norms, lack of awareness of many traffic rules, citizens and denizens disobeying the code at traffic signals at crossroads…these are the vital, urban problems in our city.
The fight against these is definitely not a small one and our city has a long, read very long, way to go as far as obedience of traffic rules is concerned. So was realized by the students of LD College of Engineering and volunteers from the association Volunteers Ahmadabad, who came together to organize the ‘Traffic Troops’ event on the 27th as a part of the ongoing kindness revolution ‘College Unstoppable’. The event triggered off with a session at the premises of Savera, Blind Peoples’ Association in which dynamic committee members from ATCC enlightened the students about various traffic rules and their raisons d'être. The ‘traffic trivia’ included answers to questions such as ‘Why, precisely, are the lights of traffic signals coloured red, green and ember? ’, ‘What is the importance of the stop-lines and why should one halt before them?’ which was explained in very innovative ways.
So the young Samaritans stepped up to the challenge and helped governing the influx of traffic at the IIM crossroads. The city commuters were in for a pleasant surprise seeing the raring-to-go youths manage the traffic and at the same time interacting with them, requesting them to don their helmets and seat-belts. The traffic cops were content as they could definitely do with the help and the students were awakened to their plight. Next, the youngsters carried out a rally and marched till the Vastrapur Lake carrying placards related to traffic rules and relevant messages. On reaching the lake, the students performed various plays and skits to spread awareness on traffic rules which left the crowd asking for more. As Franklin D. Roosevelt rightly said “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
"We have been working on this issue since long but yesterday, it was the energy that the LD students had shown on the traffic signal that made people think at least once about the issue.'
- Dimpy Dave
Volunteer Ahmedabad
"I always felt a strong urge to do something about the urban problems, the major one being Traffic Rules Awareness and today I could finally do something concrete. Talking to people at the crossroads and informing them about certain traffic rules was an experience in its own and when people actually paid heed to us when we asked them to put on their helmets and wear their seat belts, it was overwhelming."
- Hetika Shah
Member LDCU
"There is total lack of awareness among Amdavadis regarding traffic sense but after today's activity I feel that they have a tremendous positive attitude towards learning about traffic rules and following them."
-Tushar Shah
Core team member LDCU
"I personally came to know about many rules that we break other than wearing helmets and seat belts. We met all kinds of people from some calling us and thanking us for the good work and others who were not even interested in listening to us and were using abusive language instead. But now i understand how much difficulty and stress the traffic cops have to cope up with. Now i will make sure that i follow these rules and also respect traffic cops instead of cursing them."
- Jahnvi Thakur
Core Team Member LDCU
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