Bikes and the trafficking menace in Freetown

Bikes are now occupying the nerve centre of commercial transportation in the capital Freetown but are yet to be provided lane tracks for their thorough free flow.  The police have fallen short of their aggressions and it is an open secret that both them and the Traffic Wardens are no longer capable to take control of trafficking guides and rules because the motor transport workers are serving a route funding basket to often line their pockets.

They both have accepted the half-ways, u-turns, as norms and exceptional to the rule.

This situation is obsessing the traffic system to an ugly point as it disturbs the daily activities of various persons in the commercial city.

Moving from one point to the other is done with much stress.  The only fast means of transportation are the bikes who convey people in tight tracks in-between the commercial vehicles that often fill the streets.

With all of this physical dexterity the bikes are double times dangerous causing accidents as a result of either over-speeding or unavoidable vehicular speed forces.  They are notorious of hitting persons and run giving a cause to be given a wild chase.  I witnessed a scene yesterday where a bike rider hit a little girl in the east end of Freetown and failed to stop to see what he caused.  Another smashed a fowl and went away with it.  Inasmuch as they have essential services to render they should be regulated to ensure that others don’t suffer in their own delight.

So many people have been calling to ban the activities of bike riders, not joining the toll we would rather call for their proper regulations.

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