Indian car owners’ survey exposes traffic indiscipline, bad management, road rage.
NEW DELHI, Apr 26 (The CONNECT) – While Delhi NCR car owners aspire for friendly traffic police personnel, Mumbai motorists are worried about monsoon waterlogging and illegal parking menace.
These are some of the results that Park+ app throws up in a survey among Indian car owners’ on their expectations from political parties contesting the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The survey sample covered over 50,000 car owners from Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, and Chennai.
Bengaluru and Chennai car owners want stricter rules for road rage and illegal parking on roads, apart from efficient traffic management during office hours, where as their Ahmedabad counterparts stress for better road infrastructure and increased traffic police personnel.
The Gujarat capital finding is a bit surprising as the state development model boasts of a top class road infrastructure.
Founded in 2019, Park+ is a super app for car owners that solves their daily challenges, ranging from parking and FASTag management to car insurance, automated vehicle access control systems, and EV charging stations.
With over 4.5 Cr+ cars running on Indian roads today, Indian car owners form the backbone of the Indian middle class. Their demands for better roads, friendly traffic police personnel, and better traffic management are key election demands that political parties can address to bring delight back to owning a car in India.
As many as 98% of the car owners surveyed want top priority given to better road infrastructure, 81% demand friendly traffic police force and 61% ask for better management by traffic police to counter road rage/dangerous driving.
A whopping 83% of women car owners want an increased number of women traffic police personnel on highways and main roads
Amit Lakhotia, CEO and Founder of Park+, said, with over 4.5 Cr+ cars running on Indian roads today, car owners form the backbone of the Indian middle class, and their demands for – better roads, friendly traffic police personnel, and better traffic management are key election demands that political parties can address to bring delight back to owning a car in India.
Akhilesh Srivastava, Road Safety Ambassador-IRF, IT Advisor ITDA, and President ITS INDA FORUM, said, driving on Indian roads is one the most dangerous and stressful activities for any Indian car owner.
“We lack basic driving ethics, road rage is highly prevalent, our traffic police force is overstretched, and road infra is still in its infancy and it needs rapid improvement,” he said quoting the survey results.
