Blasts and Infrastructure

When will we wake up and teach our leaders a lesson - and tell them that they are not worthy of being called leaders in the first place!? Just think about this - having a well-planned city could reduced the impact of these bomb attacks, and possibly even averted some of them.

• The locals are overcrowded - 3x times their capacity.
• Extra load on station and platform handling infrastructure means deterioration in service quality. In case of accidents and such attacks, it become so much more difficult to rescue people and rush help to them.
• Narrow roads - especially around hubs like railway stattions
• It doesn't need a genious to figure out the implications. Apart from the everyday commuting pains, handling emergencies is tough.
• Pathetic road construction techniques
• Roads which need to be mended every few months easily point towards deep-rooted corruption in the system. And amazingly blind citizens don't even know where all their tax money goes, without them getting any infrastructure!
• The ill-effects of bad roads is such a long list, it warrants another posting of its own.
• Absent communication infrastructure - especially for disaster management
• A good communication infrastructure could have helped railway authorities take quick action, to pass on the information of the first blast(s) to other passengers, who could have taken atleast some evasive action. Of course, all this with the help of available railway police and infrastructure.
• And of course, quick communication could have helped in getting the police swing into action much more quickly.
• Readying hospitals and ambulances quickly would be another important side-effect.

But there's nothing we will learn out of this. Whenever there are suggestions to stop influx of people into cities like Mumbai, some idiots come up with half-baked ideas about rights and all that cr@p. But when will they understand that no basic necessities and inhuman conditions also violate rights? Not to speak of blatant disregard for human life in case of such attacks.