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**Vish

You just seen the tip of the iceberg. A very small/negligible percentage of mauritian drivers who show civism and abide to road legislations.

I think there’s a problem with both Mauritian drivers and Mauritian authorities who fail to stop/reprimand the drivers.

1.

While we pay taxes of all kinds on our cars, the authorities never improve our road infrastructures, let alone repair them. How many times in a year do we have to do car revisions (on wheels, suspensions, broken exhaust pipes) because the state of most of our roads are far below the basics. We’re just paying taxes to pay the salaries our elected politicians. Period.

Though you may feel I’m talking off -topic, mind you .. we need a minimum level of service from the state. If the government vote for the introduction of CCTV in key places (near schools and on high ways), they sure will get a massive count of law infringement and get Return On Investment (ROI) very rapidly.

All we need is will power (and also non-corrupted and truly democrat politicians)

2. It is proved that fines work (when of course, they are applied frequently). The case of non-civilized Mauritian drivers will drop drastically with more severe, applied and sustained laws.

I am not relieved at all that drivers in China or in Madagascar are worst than us, I’ve been on some roads in South Africa and Botswana where drivers (on average) would easily put us to shame. They showed so much “civism”. No need to talk about Drivers (I’ve seen in some places in Europe) who systematically stop every time there’s a pedestrian anywhere near a zebra crossing.

As people on this blog rightly said, Road humps are NOT a solution. They cost the state Rs20,000 per installation and rarely achieve their purpose. I don’t know who they came up with such an amount but it was published once on 5-plus some years ago. I will try to find that newspaper again. Moreoever Road Humps are most of the time not according to standards. They differ in size and shape a bit everywhere. Everybody’s think of Palma road right?
I’ve seen for some time that some people do not care about road humps.. i think they don’t even care about their car.. so why should they care about you…us.. Some guys just drive at high speeds on these humps.. even if their cars systematically scratches the latter.

That was my 50 cents… even if it was sooo long…

Cheers,
B.

C vrai sa ena dimoun zot coment dir zako in gagne banane zingeli kan zot dan zot loto….zot pense jamai zot pou marcher zot! And I feel so relieve when sometime i heard that some careless drivers or arrogant or drunk drivers got SMASHED up in an accident ar colon electrik!!

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I feared for my life when I was walking around the streets, but even moreso when I was driving But after a few days I somehow managed to find order in the chaos (managed to drive over 800km there without crashing the car…).

Also many local drivers made maniac passings in dangerous places where you couldn’t see at all if there’s car coming the other line or not and also speed limits didn’t seem to have any effect on local drivers.