Cities across the world seem to have crossed the common feature of hosting both human beings and motorised vehicles in equal numbers. Now, it is the turn of villages to share that feature in foreseeable future, given the steadily rising number of rustics taking to reach the cities on two-wheelers in preference to walking and also travelling by public transport, a sight that is emerging in Mysuru. In addition, even vendors of consumer needs including vegetables, milk and knick-knacks, not to forget delivery boys tossing newspaper into the front yard of subscribers as they zoom on two-wheelers are no longer walkers.
The issues of motorised vehicles as personal possession on multiple counts such as heightened pollution of ambient air due to emission, traffic snarls, road mishaps both within city limits and on Highways, causing death and injuries resulting in trauma for dependants of wage-earning members of families, cluttering of space in central business district of cities, threat to safety of pedestrians, consumption of imported fuel burdening the Nation's treasury and so on have tended to be an insurmountable challenge to the law-makers.
