Scrap BRT, but why ??

All of us must have read dozens of articles about how BRT has been a nightmare. For a change I saw a different view in Times of India. The author is absolutely right. May be the government needs to go another step in discouraging people from using cars. Anyways the rate at which we are adding cars in Delhi, it is pretty clear any number of expressways and 8 lane highways will not solve the problem. Swaran jayanti expressway is a testimony to this.

I have been to San Franciso,New york and Washington, nowwhere does government encourage people to bring there own cars in main downtown, public transport is efficient and is the preffered mode of transport.

If government sticks to BRT soon people will realize the time they save by travelling in bus. Government has already taken a decision to add more international style city buses. I believe soon it will be as good as Metro. Remember people cursed metro big time all along its construction period.

IF.....

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

My friend shaifali suggested me this link. Thanks a lot shaifali

(www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm)

For those who dont know shaifali, she is a FMS graduate and also a budding politician. She contested from Lucknow seat for MP and is an active member of lok paritran party. It amazes me how she can be active and brilliant in so many things.