{"id":38585,"date":"2012-04-16T16:24:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T16:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=38585"},"modified":"2012-04-16T16:24:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T16:24:37","slug":"bikes-and-the-trafficking-menace-in-freetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=38585","title":{"rendered":"Bikes and the trafficking menace in Freetown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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. \u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They both have accepted the half-ways, u-turns, as norms and exceptional to the rule.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This situation is obsessing the traffic system to an ugly point as it disturbs the daily activities of various persons in the commercial city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moving from one point to the other is done with much stress. \u00a0The only fast means of transportation are the bikes who convey people in tight tracks in-between the commercial vehicles that often fill the streets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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. \u00a0They are notorious of hitting persons and run giving a cause to be given a wild chase. \u00a0I 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. \u00a0Another smashed a fowl and went away with it. \u00a0Inasmuch as they have essential services to render they should be regulated to ensure that others don\u2019t suffer in their own delight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[678,1],"tags":[3042,3062,1155,722],"class_list":["post-38585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-uncategorized","tag-okada","tag-okada-bikes","tag-okada-riders","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}