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Tuesday, 29 September 2009 at 01:35

San Francisco-------------------------------
I recently visited a very beautiful city where everything is comely including its population. The city can be described as paradise on Earth. So disciplined and orderly are its people that they are model in themselves. But I should not limit to one city, the whole country, United Of America is well disciplined and orderly. Of course, I traveled to a handful places in USA but what I saw was impressive, no doubt. Clean and wide roads are specialty of America. The highways are five lanes and the raods in the city are three lanes very clean precisely because mechanized garbage collection. With less man power it is a daunting task to clear garbage. What they do of the garbage is a secret I can not fathom. Or where the dumping grounds are situated is also not known. But city is spic and spin. The buildings in the city are well spaced and every building has a backyard. The entrance to every building is a glass door, securely locked so that one needs to have a key to enter. There is electronic device for all who do not have key. They press a button and establish contact with the household, they want to go. The members have a card which they flash to open the lock if they do not have the necessary key. It system in whole of America to have a large mirror as soon as you enter a building. There is a patio and the flight of stairs which one takes to reach the desired apartment. If the building is residential, in the patio there are some strollers. On the side board of the mirror, daily mail is kept by the postman or newspapers. In the whole of America in cities same system prevails. But in small towns people have independent houses with large gardens and garages.
In every city on the pavement there are small flowering trees and plants to be taken care by inmates of the building. In every city good public transport is available at nominal cost, if not buses at least metro. So people can commute to different areas of the city. Since America is vast country, the distances are frightening. Our people easily exhausted by long distances they have to cover. The vehicular discipline indeed laudable and constraint of drivers needs to applauded at all times. All vehicles come to a halt instantly when the signal is turned red. You will say this happens in our country also. But in America every vehicle stops at cross section, signal or no signal. Not only that they stop well before the pedestrian crossing. If they find a person crossing they immediately come to a halt, irrespective of the signal. How laudable! It is also decided by general consensus not to blow horn so in spite of tremendous traffic the streets of cities or towns are dead silent. If you observe the rules, you are safe in USA. I traveled by bus frequently in San Francisco and delightful experiences of the MUNI. MUNI is the name of San Francisco municipal bus and tram system. In addition there was BART i. e. bay area metro which is feather in cap of San Francisco. That is why I say I recently visited a very beautiful country, United States of America.