What Happened in Recent Years and the Number of Motorcycles Increased?

Not much, until 5 years ago, motorcycles, scooters and derivatives vehicles in traffic It wasn’t that intense. Then, due to many factors, motorcycles filled our front, back, right and left in an unprecedented way.

Wherever we look that annoying engine noise we hear now. When the lawlessness was knee-deep, we could not walk comfortably on the roads as pedestrians. So how far will this situation go?

The most important factor in the spread of mushrooming motorcycles is undoubtedly the “worsening economy”.

At the prices we should buy a car We can only buy motorcycles. In fact, the price of a car should have been even cheaper than current motorcycle prices. With the exchange rate difference and rising inflation, the prices were also high and the number of motorcyclists in traffic increased significantly.

The fact that Turkey has the lowest number of vehicles per capita among 38 European countries clearly shows this problem. Moreover, 51% of these vehicles are 10 years or older. The rate of vehicles over 20 years old is 27%. So because of the bad economy old cars we have to use it.

Again, with the effect of the economy, fuel prices broke record after record, and people turned to vehicles that “burn less”.

As a result, the demand for motorcycles has increased. In fact, because of this cost, a significant part of people gave up going to work with their cars and turned to public transportation; some are He chose the motorcycle.

The increase in the number of couriers has no limits, now motorcycles are buzzing everywhere…

Couriers are also quite busy as they are trying to fulfill the orders. they are fast and attempt to escape. This increases the danger. Moreover, the number of motorcyclists wearing helmets is low, and there is not enough control in this regard.

Getir, Yemeksepeti, Trendyol, Hepsiburada, Migros etc. When we say companies, a whole country has turned into a courier hell. With the pandemic The increase in online orders was also effective in this. Although the pandemic is over, there has been no decrease in the number of couriers as online ordering has become a habit.

Unemployment is another factor. Individuals who could not find a job made the transition to courier services en masse.

People heading this field working in harsh conditions He says they had to because they didn’t have a better option.

We see that the number of couriers is not under control because people have demand.

However, in the Netherlands, a limitation was imposed on Getir in this regard. authorities in the Netherlands “Film-covered stores, traffic on the streets, recklessly riding a motorcycle and the noise of the waiting drivers…” prevented Getir from opening a new warehouse for a year. A similar decision needs to be taken in our country as well, but it cannot be said that the authorities care much about this issue.

Speaking of the Netherlands… We wished that the bicycle culture would spread instead of motorcycles, but unfortunately this culture has not settled in Turkey.

Already in traffic There are not even bike paths, On the other hand, it cannot be said that drivers care much about cyclists. In fact, the bicycle is an indicator of civilization, it is also useful in terms of being environmentalist, but it seems that it will take many years for this culture to settle in us.

If it goes on like this, in addition to motorcycles, there will be an increase in the number of tricycles, also known as “whirpers”.

Some markets have already started using them.

Nobody to this he doesn’t say stop.

Let’s talk about what kind of negative things we started to see as a result of this extraordinary increase:

While the vehicles are old, the motorcycles are more, and the inspections are less, each of these is actually It seriously affects our health. This means that the number of those who do not wear helmets and do not follow the rules is increasing; As a result, fatal traffic accidents are increasing day by day.

Carbon emissions are rising at an extraordinary level due to the increase in both old cars and motorcycles. to air pollution This causes serious health problems in the long run.

In addition, since noise and stress are triggered, their psychological effects are unfortunately also negative.

at 1 a.m. exhaust blower I guess there is no one who does not swear at motorcyclists.

So, do you think India is the way to go?

We hope that -even if we do not have high hopes- the authorities will take action as soon as possible for this extraordinary situation, otherwise The situation is not good at all!