Since streets and roads are increasingly getting filled, polluted and dangerous by luxury private passenger carriers, ordinary people who depend on ordinary modes of transportation need to be given subsidized fairs and free insurance cover be generating funds from the luxury automobile owners.

How feasible is this idea in your opinion?

Today roads and streets are unsafe due to the revolution that is happening in the private passenger carrier segment. Obviously, it is the ordinary folks who bear the brunt. Therefore, subsidized fairs for common man sounds good, but giving free insurance cover for them does not sound feasible to me.

Today, the need for moving faster is increasing. So many people depend on personal transport means like cars. However, this is possible only for a smaller rich minority. But the bigger majority depends solely on public transport system which is replete with inadequacies. The result is congested, polluted and dangerous roads and streets. This is unfair. So, there needs to be compensation for their suffering. Undoubtedly, subsidized fairs for ordinary man will be a right option. The fund for the same shall be raised from the richer section on the roads.

Coming to ordinary passengers’ free insurance cover, there are practical difficulties. Firstly, it is the huge size of the population that makes use of public transport system. Covering their life will be a huge burden. Secondly, implementing such a system may not be successful because it is humanly impossible to identify who travels when, how frequently one travels, how far, and what the extent of cover is. Finally, imposing exorbitant taxes on a smaller minority is undemocratic. So, free insurance does not sound viable.

Therefore, it may be concluded that unsafe and dangerous roads and streets should not make the life of ordinary man miserable. The richer section does have a role to alleviate the sufferings of the majority of road users. But free insurance cover for all is too much to ask for.


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