Road Traffic Management

One of the major issues in Burma is to solve “Road traffic management system”. We need help in managing the Road Traffic control. I witnessed myself that every second pedestrians are facing the risk of hitting by cars whenever they are using the road. Traffic lights are not properly controlled; drivers are not respecting pedestrian crossing (zebra crossing) i.e. not stopping cars for the people crossing the road on the zebra lines; road-side stalls are occupying the spaces for cars and road users everywhere; not enough roads and parking spaces for increasingly increased number of cars; and above all buses and bus drivers are the worst law-breakers who behave like gangsters stopping the bus wherever they want and whenever they want.

Addition, the quality of roads are in very bad condition and pot holes are very common features of the roads in Burma. Rangoon is hosting nearly 10 millions people and daily road users are facing hours of their time lost due to heavy traffic, due to lack of proper traffic system and due to lack of respecting laws by some road users. Consequences of heavy traffic in Burma is very high. As a result, daily commuters lost their precious time as well as Burma lost millions of hours of her citizens’ productive time.

If we look at this issue from economic development perspective, it is something we got to address in urgency. But, I would like to emphasis here that controlling car import is not the solution to solve traffic problem in Burma.

Policy makers need vision, strategy and civilian participation will be the key to solve traffic problem in Burma. Public wanted to see results. They wanted to see physical change. Since they don’t see sufficient changes in road and traffic system which is directly linked to their daily lives, they don’t believe that change is on the way in Burma.

ကြၽန္မျမန္မာျပည္ျပန္ေရာက္ေတာ႕အၾကီးအက်ယ္ေမ်ာ္လင့္ထားတာတခုရွိခဲ့ပါတယ္။အဲဒါကက်န္ေနရာေတြမတိုးတက္ရင္ေနဦး၊ႏွစ္အတိုင္းအတာအရအခ်က္အခ်ာက်တဲ့ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ႕ကိုေတာ့သန္႕ရွင္းလွပျပီးစည္းစနစ္တက်ျဖစ္ေနေတာ႔မယ္လိုအနည္းဆုံးထင္မိပါတယ္။ပထမဆုံးအၾကီးအက်ယ္ျပသနာတက္တာကကားလမ္းကူးတာပါ၊ဆယ္႔ငါးမိနစ္၊မိနစ္ငွစ္ဆယ္ၾကာပါတယ္။ဘယ္ကားက
မွလူကူးတာကိုရပ္မေပးပါဘူး။အနည္းဆုံးအရွိန္ေလွ်ာ့မေပးပါဘူး။လူေတြကကားလမ္းကိုကူးဖို႕မ်ဥ္းက်ားသြားေတာ႕လဲရပ္မေပးပါဘူး။ဒါနဲ႕ဟိုဘက္ၾကည့္ဒီဘက္ၾကည့္ေျပးကူးရပါတယ္။အဲဒီမွာလူတေရာက္ရဲ႕အသက္တန္ဖိုး safety ကာကြယ္မႉမရွိတာရယ္၊ဥပေဒတရပ္မရွိတာရယ္ကိုပထမဆုံးျမန္မာျပည္ကိုေျခခ်သူေတြရဲ႕ first impression ျဖစ္သြားေစခဲ႔ပါတယ္။လူကူးဖို့မ်ဥ္းက်ားကလဲလံုေလာက္စြာမရွိတဲ႔အျပင္တခုနဲ႔တခုကအေဝးၾကီးမွာရွိေနပါတယ္။လူေတြကလဲေတြ့တဲ႕ေနရာကျဖတ္ကူးတာပါ။အဲဒီမွာေန႕စဥ္ယဥ္တိုက္မႉဘယ္ေလာက္ျဖစ္ႏိုင္သလဲကိုခန္႕မွန္းလို႕ရပါတယ္။

ဒါတင္လားဆိုေတာ့မဟုတ္ေသးပါဘူး။ကားေမာင္းသူေတြဘက္ကၾကည့္ရင္လဲေတာ္ေတာ္ခက္ခက္ခဲခဲေမာင္းရပါတယ္။ကားတခါေမာင္းျပီးရင္ stress ဘယ္ေလာက္ရမလဲမသိပါဘူး။အဆိုးဆုံးတိုင္းျပည္ရဲ႕ပံုရိပ္ကိုထင္ဟပ္ေနသလိုျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္။စနစ္တက်မရွိပဲဥပေဒမဲ႔သလိုျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္။ေနာက္ဒီထက္ဆိုးတာကယဥ္ေၾကာပိတ္ဆို႔မႉဒဏ္ပါ။ယဥ္ေၾကာပိတ္ဆို႕မႉေၾကာင္႔ လိုက္လာတာကေတာ႕စိတ္တိုစိတ္ပ်က္ျခင္းနဲ႔စိတ္ကိုေနတိုင္းဒဏ္ခတ္သလိုျပည္သူေတြကခံစားေနရပါတယ္။မေက်နပ္မႉေတြကျဖစ္ေနတဲ႔အေနအထားေပၚမွာကေနအားလုံးကဆက္စပ္ေနပါတယ္။ဒါကအေရးတၾကီးေျဖရွင္းေပးရမဲ႕ေန႕စဥ္ဝဋ္ဒုကၡတမ်ိဳးပါ။

ဒါေတြကိုအထက္ကတာဝန္ရွိသူေတြမသိတာလား၊မေျဖရွင္းတာလားမသိပါ။ေသခ်ာတာတခုကလူၾကီးလမ္းေၾကာင္းရွင္းေပးတာေတြရွိေနပါတယ္တဲ႕၊ကြၽန္မစဥ္းစားမိပါတယ္၊ဒီလမ္းေၾကာင္းအရွင္းခံရသူေတြျပည္သူေတြေန႕စဥ္ၾကံုေတြ့ေနရတဲ႔အခက္အခဲကိုသိပါ႕မလားဆိုတာပါ။သိခ်င္ရင္တကယ္ကလြယ္လြယ္ေလးပါ။တေခါက္ေလာက္သာမန္ျပည္သူလိုဆင္းေနၾကည့္လိုက္ဖို႕ပါပဲ။အဲဒါဆိုျပည္သူေတြစိတ္ခံစားမႉဘာေၾကာင္႔ျဖစ္ေနတာလဲဆိုတာကိုရွာေဖြေတြ႔ရွိသြားႏိုင္ပါတယ္။တကယ္ကိုအေရးတၾကီးေျဖရွင္းရမဲ႔အထဲမွာယဥ္ေၾကာပိတ္ဆို႔မႉပါပါတယ္။ ျပည္သူကိုအက်ိဳးသက္ေရာက္မႉတိုက္႐ိုက္ရရွိေစျပီးအေျပာင္းအလဲကိုခံစားေစႏိုင္တဲ႔အတြက္ပါ။