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Give way to ambulance

Every day, an extraordinary number of buses, cars, rickshaws and motorcycles manage to squeeze onto Chandigarh’s busy roads and turn into a chaos. Yesterday, while trapped in a gridlock, I witnessed a choc-a-block on a road in Sector 7. An ambulance was stuck in the traffic and the road was jampacked. All commuters were seen in a hurry to get ahead. It seemed pretty hopeless for the ambulance to reach its destination on time. We can’t expect such a situation in Chandigarh, being one of the smartest cities in the country. There are already two major hospitals on the road. Should the patient reach there on time? This is not something new in the city. Every other day when you go to a street, you see ambulances stuck in traffic jams. These days, there is no value of human lives. I want the authorities to look into the matter.

Manroop Kaur