Sunday, June 24, 2012

Save Safa Tempo

Electric tempo of Kathmandu called as safa tempo are my favorites. They run on battery so they are non polluting. They don't keep their passengers kochakoch so it's easy to use them daily base. But these days I am seeing a problem with them and that's about fare. Using a diesel powered micro van and traveling from Gausala to Sundhara cost maximum of 15 rupees without student card discount but it't costs 18 rupees when we use tempo. It sounds unfair because electric vehicles are being expensive than the vehicles that runs on fossil fuel. Due to this cause tempo drivers are experiencing that very few people are using tempo nowadays. They say if this thing goes continuously tempo will surely day one day as trolly bus died. The problem has gone so high but I don't see any news agency or media trying to know this problem. I guess they even don't about this problem or they don't want to know. I am not writing this just because I love tempos. I am writing this because tempos are very important for making this polluted Kathmandu Valley a breathable city.

Friday, June 1, 2012

Wider Roads

Roads of Kathmandu are on the way of getting wider. In one way it's great thing. It's very good to have wider roads with no traffic jams, and no traffic jams also mean no ta ta tu tu of vehicles. But in another way there are many negative things that these wider roads are bringing. The first one is, these wider roads are making sever families homeless and also hope less. The second one is these wider roads are encouraging people to buy more private vehicles. They are thinking they should buy a new car or a new bike because the road of Kathmandu is getting bigger. What I think is I this way the traffic problem of Kathmandu will never be solved. Rather than people should think about cycle lanes. And it's because this will reduce the burden of our country i.e no more petrol lines and no more problem with IOC, better health, less polluted kathmandu, no more school buses will require as school kids will themselves will use cycle to go to school and no more economic burden to low income family. And there are severals benefits of cycle. We will explore them only after riding.