Click to play videoNew Delhi: After a Blueline bus mowed down seven people on Sunday and the High Court took notice of the deteriorating situation, the spotlight fell on the government and the police.
Bluelines in the city faced the heat as police impounded close to 100 buses, which had violated various traffic rules. The police initiative was the result of the usual blame game.
“Road safety, road discipline and road manners everywhere in the world is always the police's responsibility,” says Delhi CM, Sheila Dikshit.
More buses are likely to be impounded on Wednesday. But these measures may not be enough to douse rising public anger.
But even as buses were being impounded, Bluelines continued to strike on Tuesday. First in Noida, killing a motorcyclist on the spot and then in East Delhi when it mowed down a pedestrian.
Later in the day, the bus hit another motorcyclist, who was injured and is now battling for life. Three accidents on a single day make us wonder if the police crackdown is working at all.
This fresh incident just confirms why Bluelines are called killer lines. Unsuspecting commuters and by-standers are at the receiving end of rash and negligent driving. In the last six months alone.
- Blueline buses have killed over 60 people in separate accidents on Delhi roads.
- Last year the death toll due to manic driving by these private operators touched 100.
- There have been nearly 500 fatal accidents in the last three years and most of them involve Bluelines.
- There are over four thousand Blueline buses operating in the capital.
- But the Delhi government is planning to phase them out over the next few years.
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