Du progrès dans la capitale :)

Avec tous ces articles déprimants, certains commenceraient à penser (à juste titre?) que je ne fais que me plaindre de ce pays... Mais il y a quand même des choses qui changent de façon positive!
De nouveaux compteurs pour nos rickshaws, avec GPS intégré, et qui donne un ticket :-)
Ouais, encore faut-il que le conducteur accepte de mettre le compteur en marche... Et puis au font, a-t-on vraiment besoin d'un appareil aussi sophystiqué sur ce type d'engin, quand on voit l'état des taxis?

GPS installed in autos, but cops out of network

Rumu Banerjee, TNN Jan 8, 2013, 02.53AM IST

NEW DELHI: Months after the transport department started issuing permits to new three-wheeler scooter autorickshaws (TSRs) with GPS on-board, the project seems to have become a redundant exercise. While over 11,000 TSRs are on the GPS network - managed by DIMTS (Delhi integrated multi-modal transit system), the information on the movement of the autorickshaws is not sent to transport department daily. The Delhi traffic police, which issues the challans and is the main enforcement agency, doesn't have access to the operations control centre of the GPS network either.
"The GPS information is only accessed if a complaint about a TSR is received. We don't track the autorickshaws otherwise," said a senior transport department official. Asked if any complaint had been received in the past few months on which the transport department had used the GPS data, officials claimed a drive had been launched recently against TSRs which would use this data. "The drive has just started and we are hoping that the GPS network will help us," said the official.

Incidentally, when the GPS on autorickshaw scheme had been announced, the transport department had promised that a panic button as well as a complaint cell dedicated to TSRs would be launched. Neither is functional as of now. Sources in the transport department said that the panic button was unlikely to become operational any time soon, since it would be dependent on coordination with Delhi Police. "These features will only be available once the operations control centre (OCC) is also opened to Delhi Police," admitted the government official.
As for the complaint cell, officials said that the old complaint number (23989091) was the only line available at the moment. "A separate complaint cell for autorickshaws will be started soon but we are still in the planning stages," added the official.
Complaints received are forwarded to the Delhi traffic police, said the official, though the traffic cops have no access to the OCC. "We are looking into the modalities of allowing access to the police as well. It will take some time though," said the official. DIMTS meanwhile has allowed access to the GPS software data to transport department officials through login and password, the official admitted.
Sources in the transport department, which also has an enforcement wing, said that a diminished enforcement team meant that the prosecution rate against TSRs was very low in the department. "Few drives are taken out against autorickshaws, which is why permits are seldom cancelled," added the source.
As of now, there are only around 250 personnel in the enforcement wing, which has to check all commercial vehicles as well as private ones. After the gangrape incident, the transport minister Ramakant Goswami had promised to augment the team but no steps have been taken till date.