Whom to BLAME??? The People or Government.

I just had a bad experience some days before in the Udhayam theatre signal. Although I rarely follow traffic rules, I saw people around me suffering a lot here. I guess the route cause for the problem may be because of the requirement given by the officials to the programming client for the signal. And the here goes the problem.

While coming from Ashok Pillar towards Nesapakkam in the signal, I am stopped by the red signal. The seconds counter started from 60 and went descending. When the count reached 5 itself, people start changing gears and raise their accelerators. Unfortunately after the ZERO count, the counter again refreshed to 60 seconds. Here is where the exact problem was.

First,
Some people who where waiting in the signal, started speeding towards Nesapakkam thinking the signal is on GREEN. But that is not the case here. Green is on only for people who pass from Nesapakkam road towards Kasi theater.
Secondly,
people who wait in the signal got frustrated, when they came to know they have to wait again. People who tried saving petrol switched on their vehicles guessing green signal is going to be there.

Here who we are going to BLAME??? . The people or the traffic officials who made the plan on this.

But here is solution. It can be easily avoided in this way. When the RED light is on, the seconds counter should start from 120. The traffic signal programming client can make it. But the decision is to be taken by the officials.

I don’t know whether I can mention this ( a traffic defaulter often by myself). But since I pass though the way daily it made an alarm for me.