Traffic in most of Goa’s major towns and larger villages suffer from serious congestion a lot of the time, not least because of inadequate planning, poor road building and worse maintenance and lack of enforcement of traffic laws. In Margao the latest initiative has been to announce a new scheme of no entry here and there at a major junction. The announcement in the press on the 17th November, albeit garbled (directions are not a strong point here), said there was to be a month long trial to be enforced from 18th November.
So far the announcement appears to be all that has happened apart from a traffic cop being beaten up for trying to enforce it. We regularly negotiate this junction and nothing appears to have changed.
There is no will to get the job done. We guess there can’t be any money to be made from the scheme therefore it’s not going to happen.
