When I used to enjoy my bike rides…
…Unplanned urbanization
I remember the times when I was an adolescent and I used to enjoy my bike rides. Never had I thought that, in such a short period of time, it would be chaos and we would want to get out of this place. The credit goes to all of us.
I reckon I had taken those times for granted it seems. There used to be no helmets (warning; always use helmet while bike riding); fresh air brushing the hair, wind on my face, all the greenery and lush vegetation. It was the youth of peace and ambitions. Hardly any heavy vehicles were seen on the roads. The black topped road was so smooth, it always seemed a landscape with the touch of the green beings.
Now I realize necessity of those times as I have seen the worse. We can agree that we are always stressed by the commute when it could have been a bliss to the mind.The people, especially of the Kathmandu Valley, when they return to this place after a holiday or business, it haunts them. Once a true heaven has become a hell within a couple of years.
And for all these, I do not blame the population growth, rather I blame the unplanned urbanization. As I ride the roads these days, I just wonder that we are not doing our best to make this bearable at the least. The done has been done but few changes to the side of all the pitched (with to-be-black topped as well) roads with stone paved inner heritages and around can make it possible. And the touch of trees on the side lines would be perfect.
But even the concerned seems not concerned!
Pollution has rocketed and almost 70% vehicles on the road do not pass the pollution test and somehow manage to escape the authority (We all know, right!). And the dust that is in the atmosphere is killing us every day, but no one gives a damn. The people have to bear the trouble, the stress, and the medical expenses on their own which the government does not even acknowledge to solve it immediately. It has also caused road accidents, many of the times it has been fatal.
We have seen the climate change that is already, and the greatest to-be, threat to humanity and the life on earth. The global warming is soon going to-be the most prominent reason for mass migration. It has been projected that hundreds and thousands of villages all around the world will be moving inwards in the coming decades due to the actions of the great intelligent people.
Keeping the issue in short, I request the concerned authorities of Nepal, along with the countries and states of the globe, to take this seriously and unite together to fight this apocalypse.
Please leave your thoughts!
Very well said!
I remember the days with the trees at the sides of road at the Kathmandu Valley. The green lands at the mid of the city replaced by concrete structures.
Even the small green covers while seen from the place high above in the kathmandu gives us happiness that there has still been some greenery around kathmandu.
Greener and Managed Kathmandu was the theme that was carried by the mayor Bidhya Sundar Shakya of UML but to our great shock, it was just the election slogan.
If I have to relate I would point out the following causes which should be taken seriously by concerned :
1. Politics for Politics not for Profession.
2. Accountability and transparent Credibility of bureaucrats. The service promotions and other facilities should be effected by the things the bureaucrats gives to the society.
3. People should be atleast bound by the strict laws and the laws implementing body should also be strict.
And lots of similar other things should be carried out. But as you said who cares.