Namaste!
I have been living in Bangalore since last 25 years, I want to give you an insight about the infamous Bangalore's traffic. You can see from the post here that the Bangalore's population has increased significantly over the last 10 years.
Put bluntly, the consequence of such a spurt in population and unplanned development, is that there are more vehicles on the road now than ever before. And it doesn't seem like stopping anytime soon.
Nevertheless, we have a problem in our hand and we need to solve it. Here are the top 5 things that are making Bangalore's traffic a walk in the park, Jurassic park that is.
1. The Potholes:
Due to incompetent authorities at work, you can see that there are a lot of potholes on the Bangalore roads which cause a speed differential. Because of this, you can see the uneven movement of vehicles, pockets of densely packed bikes and cars trying to find their way through on the roads.
Solution: Fix all the potholes, it can cut the traffic waiting by a significant amount!
2. The Educated Retards
Most of the time when I use a bus or a 2 wheeler to drive to some place, I can see that most of the educated software professionals cutting their way through, by going on footpaths or trying to use the narrow space between 2 vehicles. This not only makes the vehicular packing tighter, it also disturbs the existing traffic structure on the road and makes dissolving of traffic into a complex problem.
Solution: Stop a retard when you see him, either by closing up the in-between space so that he can't move through or educate him in front of public.
3. Free For All for 5 seconds, even after the Red Light
That's right, when you are on road, it's a common sight to see the vehicles moving even after the traffic signal displays red, just for about 5 seconds (or even more). This will cause interference for the vehicles which has a legitimate right of way.
Solution: Be authoritative and move ahead, so that the moron who does these kind of things understands that he had a close shave in meeting with the accident.
4. One way? Screw that! the road is mine
You often see some reckless riders drive in the opposite direction in the one way exuding so much confidence that actually it might shake your belief that you are riding in the right direction. This type of thing will lead to unnecessary waiting times or even making the traffic get stuck for long distances.
Solution: Take a photo tweet such spots to this ID on twitter https://twitter.com/blrcitytraffic . Rest assured, action will be taken.
5. Civil Disobedience, Hypocrisy and Apathy
There is an acknowledgement that there is something wrong with the traffic scenario in Bangalore, but when we are in action, we do all the things stated from point 1 through 4. Though, we try to distinguish ourselves by saying we at least follow rules to some extent, but we break rules since the others do it too. That is essentially doing nothing to improve the situation. And the cycle repeats the next day. People's apathy towards this causes the problem to degrade and decay.
Solution: Grow up! Follow the rules, confront others when they don't. Be a part of the change. Learn the tools to convince others to follow rules
Final Thoughts:
Building more roads or metro or any such thing, can't solve the Bangalore's traffic, the main problem of the traffic is the utter disregard towards the traffic rules and some bad driving.
The wrong sense of achievement of gaining a couple of minutes by breaking rules is horse shit and should be introspected!
This city belongs to all of us, "The City" includes not just your home, the roads are a part of it too. Develop a good driving culture to drive stress free!
Here's hoping for such a thing.
I have been living in Bangalore since last 25 years, I want to give you an insight about the infamous Bangalore's traffic. You can see from the post here that the Bangalore's population has increased significantly over the last 10 years.
Put bluntly, the consequence of such a spurt in population and unplanned development, is that there are more vehicles on the road now than ever before. And it doesn't seem like stopping anytime soon.
Nevertheless, we have a problem in our hand and we need to solve it. Here are the top 5 things that are making Bangalore's traffic a walk in the park, Jurassic park that is.
1. The Potholes:
Due to incompetent authorities at work, you can see that there are a lot of potholes on the Bangalore roads which cause a speed differential. Because of this, you can see the uneven movement of vehicles, pockets of densely packed bikes and cars trying to find their way through on the roads.
Solution: Fix all the potholes, it can cut the traffic waiting by a significant amount!
2. The Educated Retards
Most of the time when I use a bus or a 2 wheeler to drive to some place, I can see that most of the educated software professionals cutting their way through, by going on footpaths or trying to use the narrow space between 2 vehicles. This not only makes the vehicular packing tighter, it also disturbs the existing traffic structure on the road and makes dissolving of traffic into a complex problem.
Solution: Stop a retard when you see him, either by closing up the in-between space so that he can't move through or educate him in front of public.
3. Free For All for 5 seconds, even after the Red Light
That's right, when you are on road, it's a common sight to see the vehicles moving even after the traffic signal displays red, just for about 5 seconds (or even more). This will cause interference for the vehicles which has a legitimate right of way.
Solution: Be authoritative and move ahead, so that the moron who does these kind of things understands that he had a close shave in meeting with the accident.
4. One way? Screw that! the road is mine
You often see some reckless riders drive in the opposite direction in the one way exuding so much confidence that actually it might shake your belief that you are riding in the right direction. This type of thing will lead to unnecessary waiting times or even making the traffic get stuck for long distances.
Solution: Take a photo tweet such spots to this ID on twitter https://twitter.com/blrcitytraffic . Rest assured, action will be taken.
5. Civil Disobedience, Hypocrisy and Apathy
There is an acknowledgement that there is something wrong with the traffic scenario in Bangalore, but when we are in action, we do all the things stated from point 1 through 4. Though, we try to distinguish ourselves by saying we at least follow rules to some extent, but we break rules since the others do it too. That is essentially doing nothing to improve the situation. And the cycle repeats the next day. People's apathy towards this causes the problem to degrade and decay.
Solution: Grow up! Follow the rules, confront others when they don't. Be a part of the change. Learn the tools to convince others to follow rules
Final Thoughts:
Building more roads or metro or any such thing, can't solve the Bangalore's traffic, the main problem of the traffic is the utter disregard towards the traffic rules and some bad driving.
The wrong sense of achievement of gaining a couple of minutes by breaking rules is horse shit and should be introspected!
This city belongs to all of us, "The City" includes not just your home, the roads are a part of it too. Develop a good driving culture to drive stress free!
Here's hoping for such a thing.
regarding point 4, they can install "one-way tyre killer" like they did in pune.
ReplyDeleteFully agree, more need to be done from the driving community. Simply put we need more sensible people on road.
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