Much was published about the new buses in Ghana from HunangHai Bus Company. Not only that the buses have no display for the final destination working, no time table visible at every bus stop, no assigned line number for passenger to identify the route to take but in fact they are dangerous to human lives!
Instead of using cheap plastic curtains that develop in case of an accident with fire involved hazardous smoke, tinted glass is the appropriate option.
The material used inside is cheap and in case of an accident will fly everywhere. Passenger that cannot find a seat have to stand and hold onto a yellow metal bar. Ghana is a hot country and hands can easily sweat. Once the bus has to stop unexpectedly or goes into a sharp curve, the sweating hands will slide from the metal bar causing the passengers to fall and while falling taking other passengers, like a Domino effect, with them to the ground injuring much more people. In Europe buses are equipped with handle bars that have specially enforced plastic slings for hands to hold onto firmly and safely at little extra costs, worth ensuring the safety of passengers.
Along the side windows half way of the glass metal bars are placed from front to end. Maybe it was intended for the window seat passenger to hold onto (in Europe at the back of each seat a small handle bar is screwed onto to give passenger a safe ride) but this high up metal bars will be, in case of an accident, a death trap for all passengers as the exit is mostly via destroying the windows with the provided small red hammers. In the case of Ghana’s new buses the metal bars are blocking the way for a fast and safe escape of passengers specially when they are de-formatted by the impact of force caused by overturning of the bus.
In Ghana nobody cares for the well-being of others as long as the own egoism can enjoy its small and short-sighted thinking.
GOD have mercy on all users of the new Ghana buses and may ensure that no disaster happens equivalent of June 3rd 2015 deaths with no lesson to be learnt from it.
Amen !
Author: Dipl.-Pol. Karl-Heinz Heerde, Sakumono Estate, Block D10, Aprt.9, Tema West, Ghana, phone +233(0)265078287, [email protected] , 28.02.2016
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