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September 15, 2005
Noting Nanganallur
Nanganallur Notes in Chennai Online offers good source of information on the happenings in the temple suburb in Chennai.
This is especially for those who have left Nanganallur and settled somewhere else and want to keep in touch with the temple town.
Posted by Vasanth at 08:26 PM | Comments (4)
September 06, 2005
Traffic traffic go away
There are few other things which makes driving in Bangalore a pressure than a pleasure!!
This one happens very frequently in Bangalore. You would be going in a narrow road which has space enough only for 1 vehicle one way. There will be a minor traffic jam and you will obediently park your car on the left side behind the vehicle in front of you. If everyone does the same thing, it wouldn’t have resulted in a major traffic jam. But here is the twist!! Like in the movie, our hero driving a Qualis will zip pass you on the wrong side, as though all the drivers in front of him are mad and don’t have any destination to reach and are enjoying the music played in Radiocity, and try to sneak his way through into the incoming traffic. Because of one madman, the entire traffic stalls and everyone in there has to pay the price.
Also, I don’t understand how they could get it so wrong. All the bus stops are bang next to signals. You will be overjoyed to see the signal turn green and step on the accelerator only to get stranded behind a public bus parked on the middle of the road.
I am sure that the days are not far off when the kids will be singing this:
Traffic, traffic, go away
Come again some other day
We want to go outside and enjoy
Come again some other day
All this apart , today turned out to be entirely different from the routine as the traffic was light and I could go in the top gear in some of the busiest roads of Bangalore. Under normal circumstances, you wouldn’t have dared to even attempt the 3rd gear.
Life isn’t that bad after all. Let me make the most of it .
Stopped writing and started singing…..
Traffic, traffic, go away
Posted by Vasanth at 08:12 PM | Comments (4)
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 05:56 PM | Comments (4)