Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Road Rash

Atlast Bangalore is getting its infrastructure spruced up and all thanks to Kumaranna (I had written about him going the Naidu way in my yahoo blog - Wishful thinking - Kumara going the Naidu way), I see it happening now, Bangalore will regain whatever glory it had lost w.r.t IT, BT or any other T not coming to Bangalore, industries are still queing up to get land in Bangalore to start thier companies.

Coming to the orginal subject I wanted to talk about (I always transgress pretty easily :) ), the roads are all being made up, all tarred up, potholes being filled very meticulously and ensure than another bout of rain will not take the charm away from the decked up roads.

But whatever said and done, finally when it comes to the actual commutable place on the road, it still remains the same, it actually does not make any difference when compared to earlier times, because on either side of the road there are always vehicles parked which take away nearly 40% of the road and that leaves just place for vehicles to move from either side and the same traffic jam still exists as earlier, the main culprits I see are Autos (Auto drivers need to be educated properly, I think this is the biggest challenge for any goverment if they really want to solve the traffic woes), Two-Wheelers (they never park parallel to the footpath, instead they always park at 90degree to the footpath which naturally takes a lot of place), Cars (especially of those small companies which are located in small buildings and dont have parking place), these vehicles are parked almost throughout the entire day and during peak traffic hours.

Unless they are hefty fines charged for all the traffic violations and cancelling of the licence for frequent offenders, things will never improve and BCC will have a ball during every budget it comes out with, because they know only one solution - flyovers, fly over all the other things and pocket the money to the kitty.

We all need to be educated on traffic sense and it is the responsibility of each citizen to abide by traffic rules and also use some common sense while driving/commuting - this would actually make Bangalore a better place instead of decking up Bangalore.

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