Thursday, March 18, 2010

Untangling the TAG Tangle

Anyone who has travelled from the Gurgaon expressway, would have once in their lives thought about the mess that's created at the Toll Plaza everyday at the Tag lines. For the unfortunate people like us who have to travel on that road almost everyday, having the ease of having to not stop at the toll courtsey the automated Tags is no ease at all!! Reason: Cars with no tags enter these lines almost without any problem and you're always standing there in the queue wondering when will that day come, when we'l have a smooth ride through without any stopages.. The truth however is that if the government does not take any action then this shall never stop and our miseries shall continue! In their defence they have put barriers and traffic marshals to stop the non tag cars to enter those lanes, But only in vain.

So whats the solution to this problem?

I have two actually. Both however are punitive because the only way I think you can stop people from doing an offence here and in fact everywhere, is to scare them of the consequences.

So, the first and the most easiest option is to put a fine of some xyz amount , it can be anything 20 -30-40- 50 rs., that the cash cars need to pay this amount extra, if they enter those tag lanes. Just need to put a board on top saying Tag users Rs. 18 and non Tag users Rs 58. I'm sure no one without a Tag would ever get into those lanes again, apart from someone with an extreme emergency!

The other solution is to put cctv's on every line and take a picture of all the cars who pay cash on these lines and send them a chalaan at home. This too can be easily implemented by just putting a board saying "Camera's installed, offenders will be punished."

I'm sure the Haryana Government would be more than glad to get the money it collects from these fines. The only question is will anyone ever take this problem seriously and take action?? Because from the looks of it, i'm not too sure that too many people up there are too bothered about this nuisance that we go through everyday.

Does anyone have any other solution to untangle the tag tangle??