Last week, I was on a hunting trip with my brother and another friend to Tarbela. On our way back to rwp/isb, at arond 6 pm, before hitting GT road, ( think it was somewhere in Haripur), we stopped at a railway crossing where the gates were shut and a train was about to pass… The road we were on was a single lane each way. After about two minutes, there were atleast 6 (without exaggeration) lanes formed on our side. People had moved and parked on the incoming lane as well waiting to go to the other side. When the gates opened, there were six lanes formed, on both sides, people staring ahead with dumb faces, honking horns at each other to move on…
Needless to say, it took that mess about 45 minutes to clear. MY question is, why do pakistanis do it? why are we so impatient? what sense of achievement do we feel if we manage to squeeze ahead of someone else in a line to be stuck again at a more awkward position than before and delaying things furthur…
I was just dumbfounded by the lack of brains people showed on the road. Unbelievably stupid! You cant call it lack of education, its something else.. lack of common sense?? or just plain stupidity?
I call it lack of respect for the other people, the me-first mentality. And true it do not happen only in backward areas. I was coming back from Pakistan, at karachi airport there were three different queues to enter the customs and immigration area, and apperently one educated looking man in mid fifties started getting in front of me, and when I pointed it out to him that where the end of the que is, he said mind your own business. Even though he was elder than me but enough is enough and I told him to shut the fcuk up literally. I have no respect for people like these.
Now tell us did u changed the lane or stuck to the original one! This is kind of adventure usually at crossings.. I used to fume bout that too.. but now I dont.. relax and enjoy..
Its a nation of Inflated egos. You see that each time you visit Pakistan, people will jump the line and if you point that out people react as if thats your own personal problem, and they have nothing against the guy cutting the line. People just relax and enjoy the injustice, and only shout when injustice is done to them. By that time the rest of the crowd is enjoying and relaxing.....its a never ending circle of "individual" suffering.
Humans need rules to guide them. We think people in developed countries are smart but take off the markings from the roads and they'll fall in total disarray too.
Discipline is a learned behaviour, it doesn't come naturally. People who are supposed to enforce the rules are the first ones to break them. Thanks to zero accountability.
If Pakistan had a strong & fair justice system, people will get educated themselves. It's the kind of education that is not taught in schools and colleges.
I was refering to Kaka as hes not alian to pakistan culture.. he has spent most of his life in pakistan.. peopel in pakstan are aware of the indescipline but are not motivated enough or dont see examples from role models.. one would see police or govt vehicles not obeying rules.. they do obseve rules when justice is done - check motorway police or Lahore-Multan Road etc. where generals or top bureaucrats get traffic tickets all the time.. I am involved in a solid waste management project in three Punjab towns at the moment where community awareness/partcipation is a big part of the effort.. people are starting - though at low level- to appriciate and get involved in efforts of commmon good..
nah, you all missed the point.
I know the traffic rules are broken and people dont follow road signs or there might not be any road signs and yada yada…
The question was… are we really that stupid??? Its not even about following traffic rules. Its common sense. Everyone knows that right side of the road is for the oncoming traffic and the left is for you to go straight ahead. Why in the world would u make 6 freakin lanes covering both sides of the road?! dont these people know that they are all going to be stuck there for an hour if they do that??
Aqal naam ki cheez qareeb say bhi nahin guzri.
I dont know, maybe I’m wrong… but I would have thought, if ur totally uneducated, have never been on a road before… you would still figure out the fact that making 6 lanes is going to screw everyone and no one is going anywhere for the next hour! but no, apnay cheetay sab first aanay kay chakkeron main hain
This happens in every signle city in pakistan besides Islamabad, where people form 4 lanes on a single lane road, and this ends up atcually taking more time then had the people beein a single lane, yet people still do it!
All those are in great hurry to reach somewhere - where they have nothing to do.. the only job in their hand is to create a mess right there.. akhir chudrahat koi cheez hoti he.. if they pick up a fight there its a bonus..
Its funny to see ppl here kinda implying "its always been the case in Pakistan", "get used to it" etc etc. Kaka is there only for a short time. He will go back to his developed adopted homeland, but those people will form six lanes every day and get delayed longer every day when there is a train crossing. So, the issue is not that Kaka should learn, but that those people are so brain dead that they see themselves how their behavior is actually counter-productive and still keep on doing it. May be, in general, we are grooming a nation of idiots. Hope not.
I think that there is a critical mass breaking all kindsa laws, so others may think, why should I be the only one. Kinda like cheating in exams, if a large number fo people are cheating, others may say, why should they get the unfair advantage, why should I get less marks because I am honest, same with traffic.
we need a critical mass of law abiding citizens in Pakistan, or disciplined people.
people try to break lines, and do stupid stuff on roads here as well e.g. the moron who gets out of a regular lane, gets in the incoming lane to teh highway which ends in a few hundred feet, and wants to race up and then merge in front of others and creating a traffic jam in the process. The difference ids that there is not a critial mass of people doing it and most still find it wrong, additionally law enforcement is decent. niether is the case in Pakistan
