- The addition and construction of roadways, overpasses and cloverleafs (pedestrians, bicycles, tuck-tucks, hand-bikes and wheelbarrows will still be permitted to run tandem to fast-moving cars, trucks and decorated dump trucks)
- The beautification of city streets and medians (to include the addition of shrubbery, the removal of standing pools of "stink-water" that attract malaria-laden mosquitoes, and the insistence that citizens quit being run over by large buses b/c carcasses always stain and carcass removal is very expensive)
- the addition of street signs (b/c up until now, Delhi's citizens were required to arrive at any destination only after hours of trial and error)
Julie and I, after seconds of discussion, also propose the following "improvements" before the Goodwill Games commence:
- All citizens must refrain from urinating and defecating on the roadside of major thoroughfares and travel ways (side streets and alleyways will now be used for this purpose, or at least more so) (this law applies to males and females equally, if only to avoid a charge of sexism)
- All citizens must refrain from exposing their "junk" on the roadside of major thoroughfares and travel ways (while this problem will likely be addressed with the elimination of urination and defecation (see above), we think it important to address it separately - we'd hate to think a citizen were able to find a loophole when it comes to something like this)
- Perhaps finally (at least for now), we suggest that police officers quit holding hands (while male-male hand-holding is nothing unusual in India - and we're certainly not judging - we just think that two grown men, sworn to uphold the law and protect the citizenry, should carry themselves with a certain amount of gravitas and professionalism...they can hold hands all they like "off the clock")
Delhi...OUT!!!
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