It was supposed to be a day of calls. Our journey had commenced at 11 AM - to cater for the traffic madness - and boy, what a horrendous experience it was and to make matters worse, we'd to traverse from Gottikkere to Yashwantpur, back to Gottikkere and then to Hormavu! At any given direction the distance was around 25 kms and the transit duration shouldn't have taken more than half an hour provided the roads were navigable, without glitches.
To cater for the present needs that will also encompass future trends and requirements - say, for the next 25 yrs - infrastructural augmentation needs to be vigorously followed. Whenever such work is undertaken, there's gonna be obstruction to the smooth flow of traffic and people, generally, accept the impasse sportingly hoping for the better times ahead!
It speaks of the enormous patience of the Bangaloreans that they've endured the traffic snarls that have been an ongoing saga for the last so many years! Governments had come and gone, tall promises were made by each of them without delivering results. The people have given up all hopes, becoming cynical in the process - as I could gather from my interactions with the people that I'd come across - saying that there was no point in hoping for better things as none was able to deliver owing to the hopeless situation.
And what do the concerned agencies - involved in the work of commissioning the metro rail, flyovers, etc - say? Each - the telecommunication department, the PWD and the water authority while throwing the spanner in the works, periodically - blames the other for being obstructive and insensitive to the requirements! It's a typical Indian syndrome of faulting the other without accepting the blame for their own mistakes!!
I doff my hat to the enduring patience of the Bangaloreans! You deserve a better deal folks. Period!!
Tailpiece.
(a) Who should be blamed for this colossal mess? To my mind, all the governments that have ruled here, thus far, for not being imaginative and for lacking the foresight to assess the requirements of the future. Instead, they'd concentrated on short term goals to score brownie points over their political rivals and win elections! How did they envisage an industrial and productive hub without setting up the basic infrastructural development? Couldn't they have set up satellite townships and connected up them up to the old city?
(b) Meeting up with Sunny and Theresa was a pleasure as always. It was nice to catch up with their tidings and the evening just flowed!
To cater for the present needs that will also encompass future trends and requirements - say, for the next 25 yrs - infrastructural augmentation needs to be vigorously followed. Whenever such work is undertaken, there's gonna be obstruction to the smooth flow of traffic and people, generally, accept the impasse sportingly hoping for the better times ahead!
It speaks of the enormous patience of the Bangaloreans that they've endured the traffic snarls that have been an ongoing saga for the last so many years! Governments had come and gone, tall promises were made by each of them without delivering results. The people have given up all hopes, becoming cynical in the process - as I could gather from my interactions with the people that I'd come across - saying that there was no point in hoping for better things as none was able to deliver owing to the hopeless situation.
And what do the concerned agencies - involved in the work of commissioning the metro rail, flyovers, etc - say? Each - the telecommunication department, the PWD and the water authority while throwing the spanner in the works, periodically - blames the other for being obstructive and insensitive to the requirements! It's a typical Indian syndrome of faulting the other without accepting the blame for their own mistakes!!
I doff my hat to the enduring patience of the Bangaloreans! You deserve a better deal folks. Period!!
Tailpiece.
(a) Who should be blamed for this colossal mess? To my mind, all the governments that have ruled here, thus far, for not being imaginative and for lacking the foresight to assess the requirements of the future. Instead, they'd concentrated on short term goals to score brownie points over their political rivals and win elections! How did they envisage an industrial and productive hub without setting up the basic infrastructural development? Couldn't they have set up satellite townships and connected up them up to the old city?
(b) Meeting up with Sunny and Theresa was a pleasure as always. It was nice to catch up with their tidings and the evening just flowed!
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