According to the OrissaDiary website, all vehicles were to have governors installed, but the Autorickshaw drivers said if it happened, all autorickshaws would shut down indefinitely.

In my opinion, the notion of somehow restoring traffic discipline through the mandated installation of a speed governor is ridiculous. First, it in no way addresses the main problem on Odishi roads, which is an almost complete failure to abide by things like lane markings and traffic signals. Speed is *not* the problem, or at least not excessive speed (though mandating a *minimum* speed on main roads might help some). Second, issuing this mandate is a tacit admission that the police are incapable of enforcing ordinary traffic regulations. That is something the government has to fix itself; it can't put the burden on the public.

Edit: Per the Telegraph, Dec 7, this is still slated to go forward. A panel has been put together to review this. The thrust of the article was to limit the speed on buses and other heavy transport, but there is mention of imposing it on private vehicles also.

Keep in mind that while this *might* have some impact on accidents on what passes for high-speed roads, it will do nothing for in-town accidents (which no doubt comprise the bulk of all accidents), since the majority of them will occur at lower speeds than the governor is set at. It will also rob motorcyclists in particular of a "weapon" they currently have to *avoid* accidents, since many bikes have enough acceleration to "get ahead" of a potential accident. With the imposition of a governor, that possibility will be eliminated, leaving the biker only the option of jamming on the brakes and hoping not to get hit too hard. However, again, this is a tacit admission by the government that they cannot manage traffic properly. Instead of setting up speed traps on "dangerous" roads like the Bhubaneswar-Puri road (and there's no reason they can't; speed can be timed with a stopwatch if they can't get ahold of a radar gun), and instead of having the police do proper patrols instead of snoozing in their vehicle in the shade of some side street, the government instead punishes the general public for the actions of the miscreants.

g2g 2moro???
call me 9583106444

Where ?

where place n time
will it be a normal 1 or something special ???

i will try 100 % to join u guys ....

why don't we close this thread its.. fu**ing dead thread, no one is there who is permanently active on this thread.

Lets have a g2g this saturday and discuss how can we make this thread alive. I bloody don't even know the contact number of people who actually really are interested for a bike ride.

Fine, I will go for a ride this SUNDAY 18th Dec. 6.30 am from CTC, will head towards BBSR, don't know where will I go but I will take the Highway and go somewhere...

If anyone is interested to join me on the ride of self discovery (for me it will be) please contact me on nau teen teen 810 char teen 88.

Thanks

your ph.no??

Guys i nd vineet will be going on a g2g on 18th Dec 6:30 am . any one interested to join call me 9583106444.

sorry

sorry bhai i was having fever so couldn't reply ...


really sorry for that so MEET hua tha kya ????
if yes any thing special happened on this G2G ?

my no was there at 1st page .

ph - 9861233283

bye .

U r rt bhai

the problem is that we r not in touch in regular intervals nor regular posting is there in this thread so we have to do something new for this prob .

any new plan for d NEW YEAR ??

any long trip this JAN 2012 ..?

all members should give some time .....

This might address the "thread is dead" issue too, but why is it that Pondicherry gets a "Sticky" thread with 20-something replies, but Bhubaneswar with almost 800 is still not "Sticky"?

let us try to keep this thread alive lets put one line every day of wat r we doing or thinking or discuss where shud we go in the next trip?? ok

[QUOTE=vineet_44;749631]let us try to keep this thread alive lets put one line every day of wat r we doing or thinking or discuss where shud we go in the next trip??

tomorrow there is a meet from BHUBANESWAR SUPERBIKERS CLUB at 3:00pm .
ITER college. hope to meet some friends from here , as every one wants to have a taste of the beasts, .......come'on friends.

I think we shud share our contact no. and start a google sms channel, where anyone of us can send a update regarding any ride and everyone receives the msg on their cell phones, lets register as many of us there as possible.

i m trying to create a google sms channel once done will let u know

any plan of sunday g2g??

good 1

This will be a nice thing to update all members for upcoming events n even better for those who don't have time to visit XBHP web site or any other problem .