Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Bangalore Traffic


Almost a month after I went to Mumbai, it is now time for me to tell you what the hell has been going on since that fateful day. So I reached Mumbai, found my way to the hotel at midnight, made it to office the next morning on time. Everything was going great until two days I got a call from the husband back home at Bangalore telling me he wasn’t feeling well. Now whether he was sick because he was missing me or he partied too much and ended up falling sick, I can never be sure of.

So I got back to Bangalore to take care of him and have been here since then. So my Mumbai dreams came to an end in a week’s time.

Never to be the one bogged down my unexpected turn of events (I can almost see my mom’s lips curling up in a smirk and saying, “Yeah, right!”) – I have embraced my Bangalore office with a never before glee. Trying to cheer myself up by doing a things that I love doing – reading and writing. Not that I am making much progress in the latter as is evident from the (lack of) updates on this blog.

Another major event that has happened is that, much to the horror of my mom, I went ahead and bought for myself a Scooty to commute to office. It happened after a bad day in BMTC buses when I had at least 4 X 100 kg aunties falling on me. It is just ridiculous. Either there should be more buses in that route (wait, that’s not possible. Because there is just NO ROOM in the road for any more buses) or all companies should give 100% work from home option to their employees. Save some fuel for the next generation too.

That Tin Factory – K R Puram stretch is the one that is the most amazing bottleneck. It takes a full 20mins to cross that 1-1.5km stretch. That said, simple things done by BBMP can make the situation a lot better. The road right outside the railway station is a mess – which leads to the vehicles slowing down to make the impact of the bad road lesser – this at an already ridiculous bottleneck of a place! There are open sewage drains along the road (on the right hand side of the road). Can’t they be closed with cement planks so that they seem like an extension of the road providing the much needed space for at least the motorists? Also people should not be allowed to alight/board buses/cars right on the main road outside the railway station. And how difficult would it be to have an overhead bridge built for pedestrians to cross the road?


And the BBMP is not the only party that can change. There should be co-operation from the people as well. Most of the cars I see are occupied by one person only. In some rare cases, two. Why can’t people do car pooling? That way you save on fuel AND you get to travel in lighter traffic and reach your destination earlier.

Companies could have flexible timings to accommodate people arriving office early/late to avoid peak hour rush. Company shuttles and cabs could be provided at different timings to reduce time “wasted” in travel.

Simple solutions to complex problems; problems that take at least 20-30mins of about 2000 people’s mornings; time that could be used for more productive work. Will the solutions work? Hell, yes. Will they be implemented? Hehe, we all know our city corporations and ourseleves better.

32 comments:

  1. "That Tin Factory – K R Puram stretch is the one that is the most amazing bottleneck. It takes a full 20mins to cross that 1-1.5km stretch"

    Lucky you are, i got to work from RMZ ecospace, you know how long it took for me to reach the entrance from the parking lot.. full 45mins, thats like 500m, and the roads being cut for flyover construction, makes it even more worse... and yeah, i am coming to bangalore, yet again (for a week,starting 19th).. and hope the traffic improves owing it to the holiday closure for some of the companies i hear about..

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  2. @Sathish
    The first thing that used to come to our minds when we heard 'Bangalore' was gardens and nice weather. But now nothing other than traffic is being associated with the city.
    Good luck for your stint. But as far as I see, there is nothing different this week.

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  3. Bangalore traffic is an absolute disaster. I remember in 2008 when I had my reception in Bangalore we were stuck in traffic and it was raining. We (Myself and my wife) reached there 2 hours after the function had to start. The people who managed to make it on time patiently waited for us. It was such a furstrating experience.

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  4. @Giri
    I agree. It is such a mess.
    I suggest that the woman starts traveling to the hospital as soon as she finds she is pregnant. Else she may have to deliver en route to the hospital. ;-)

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