Gridlocks caused by breakdown in social order

All it would need is even one week of reinforcing the law and the laid-down rules to have a significant impact. Is that beyond us now?

Of course, there are bigger solutions, but they will take time. Accelerate the new road network – and build roads to last more than just six months.

Address corruption in car importation and licensing, and in driver training. Introduce properly regulated, affordable public transport solutions.

Use taxation and road pricing to ensure that the full cost of driving is imposed on drivers. And overhaul police governance so that the enforcement of even the smallest regulation is not a vehicle for extortion.

Those things must come. Without them, our whole economic engine will seize up. But we can also act on the here and now.

Bad behaviour is everywhere, and it is worsening every journey for everyone. Simply making drivers behave like civilised human beings is now the burning issue. I hope someone will step in to address it.

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