42 degrees Celsius of temperaturea thermal sensation close to the 46 degrees and one humidity above 40 percent. With these conditions, we travel from the beginning of spring in the capital city of Sinaloaglimpsing a desolate panorama of what awaits us for the hottest months (August and September).
In addition to these extreme weather conditionsthe absence of urban planning for so many decades and the unbridled increase in traffic which we have witnessed, has caused the almost endless extension of the calls “rush hour” of road congestion. Nothing more in Culiacan there is an official record of 600 thousand automobilesplus those of foreign origin that still circulate without permission, except for some charming license plates from this or that pro-regularization organization.
But if the above were not enough, there is also no adequate traffic light system, but yes, since it is the most humanized we cannot complain, and the fact is that lack of traffic lights that work automatically, here we have a traffic agent at each intersection to manually operate the light change.
On one occasion, I approached a traffic officer to whom a motorist had just shouted some signals with high-sounding words, because for that driver it had taken a long time to change the light at the traffic light. What the agent confessed to me is that for them, it is a real punishment to be there, standing under the sun’s rays, “stinging this sink”… and he still expressed it to me, receiving complaints from people. The reality is that fatigue and distractions make this measure of “humanizing” or personalizing traffic lights have an adverse result than what is projected, since many times, far from relieving traffic, the opposite happens, that is, even more congestion is generated.
But the solution already exists and is not something new. How many times in the past have we heard our authorities announce that a “smart traffic light” system would be implemented, one that almost all medium- and large-sized cities in the world already have? These intelligent systems relieve vehicular circulation by interacting synchronously based on a Georeferencing System, which informs about the existing traffic on the different roads, and automatically speeds up circulation in areas with greater congestion, since It produces a link with the GPS of the other traffic lights, to, through the change of colors in them, give fluidity to the roads where there is more vehicle load.
But since that is already too much to ask, the inhabitants of this and the other municipalities of the state, we are satisfied with the fact that the traffic lights function synchronously, so that the vehicles can have continuity in their movement, especially on boulevards or main avenues. that serve as a gateway to various sectors of the city.
This will undoubtedly be an urgent issue that will have to be managed by the state government, the new mayors who are elected this year. June 2nd.
Another phenomenon, in this case a social one but that we still encounter on every cruise, is the marked exploitation of children that has not been able to be eradicated. It is truly ignominious and heartbreaking to see children no more than three years old, dressed as clowns doing pirouettes, on a pavement that literally burns their bare feet. Please, not a call, but a plea to the DIF System so that, just as they have managed to be successful with other social programs, they please address this situation. And they don’t have to go far to do so, because on the corner of the USE and a few meters from the DIF offices, you can see these little ones being exploited by execrable and unscrupulous people, who in many cases we know are their own parents. . Many times we have seen campaigns not to give money to these street children, and perhaps there is a good reason why this encourages the problem not only to continue, but even to increase, but in these cases feeling usually wins over reason, for The best solution is to simply no longer allow children to suffer on cruise ships.
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