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September 01, 2005
Road Non-Sense
If everything goes well I could reach office in 25 minutes. This is what I think always in morning when I start my car. However, not even a single time it has gone well in my 6 months stint in Bangalore so far.
I used to wonder why is that you get stuck somewhere enroute daily. Though lack of infrastructure plays a major part, it can’t be the sole reason. I think it is the mindset of the people which makes the matter worse.
The other day I was driving my car towards a four road intersection which did not have a automated signal nor there was a policeman. In an ideal scenario it should have taken not more a minute for me to cross that junction. However, it took more than 20 minutes for me to cross that junction on that particular day. There aren’t many vehicles also in that junction, it was hardly 1 or 2 from each of the four roads. The traffic didn’t move in any of roads because the vehicles in front of each road didn’t want to give away to one another. If any of these cars had given away to another, we all could have moved out of that place in just 2 minutes. Instead everyone was stuck for more 20 minutes.
What do you call this. Isn’t this absolute madness? If all these guys had any road sense, we could have all saved 20 minutes of our time.
Posted by Vasanth at September 1, 2005 05:56 PM
Comments
Chakra,
Ha Ha Ha, the famous winch
Posted by: Vasanth at September 2, 2005 04:36 PM
Yes Ven,, there is nothing we can do but write in the blog I guess
Posted by: Vasanth at September 2, 2005 04:36 PM
thats why they built a winch at Bournemouth! ;)
Posted by: Chakra at September 1, 2005 10:23 PM
true, many of us dont have road sense/road conscious. When u talk about city, i am reminded that education has no impact on people when it comes to rules of the road.
however, cool down vasanth, we have to live with all these..
Posted by: Ven at September 1, 2005 07:01 PM