Caught In Traffic

The city police, in an effort to ease the monstrous peak-hour traffic, has ordered that parents who send wards to the elite schools in the central administrative district cannot use personal vehicles to drop or pick up them up. Parking within a 200-metre radius of the schools is also banned. Public transport or schools buses were suggested as an alternative. But the parents, mostly mothers, were out on the streets last Tuesday protesting. Some said they couldn’t risk their kids’ lives and limbs on a BMTC bus, while others spouted statistics ("2,000 buses to ferry 30,000 children") to debunk the order. Will the cops topple over to "peer pressure" or not, that’s the question now.