Bangalore Traffic.......

The traffic in Bangalore has gone from bad to worse, during the rush hours it takes about an hour to travel 10 Kms, but we are only to blame for it, we fail to follow the traffic rules at times, with some or the other justification every time. But there are some really irritating things happening on the road while you are driving, atleast they are irritating for me.

1) The most irritating thing I find on the road are the BMTC buses, no they should be there but there should really be some kind if training for these BMTC bus drivers, they stop anywhere (I recall this is the problem with the Blue line buses in Delhi too).

2) The BMTC should really re review their bus routes at times the roads are too narrow and are not designed for buses to pass through them, and as a result whenever they stop on the bus stop, the whole traffic behind them stops!

3) During the rush hours the traffic cops switches off the red light and tries to manage the traffic manually, and when they do that they end up stopping the traffic for atleast 10 minutes, as a consequence the whole traffic floods the next traffic light and this continues.

4) Some auto walahs have sworn to themselves that they will always overtake from the left, even if there is scope on the right.

5) If the autowalah bangs you dont ever try to argue with him, just say thanks and try to get the claim from the insurance company, as the minute you stop to talk to him, atleast 50 auto walahs will surround you.... the same is true for the cab drivers

6) As a government norm every cab has to write a phone number saying that "if the driver is found driving negligently please call-----" but dont try to do that, as nobody picks up the phone on those numbers

7) Since the BMTC bus drivers are govt. employees so no police wala fines them... instead I have seen scenarios where the bus walah ends up abusing the "thulla"

8) Even if you are right there is no pint in arguing with the "Thulla" as most of the time he wont prefer to talk to u in Hindi / English, and if he talks then he ends up threatening you that he can frame you in false charge and since you are away from your hometown it would be best for you to just walk off.... this is the face of the protectors of Law here!

9) Its seems that the cabs in Bangalore just doesnt have any brakes in them, as I have seen numerous incidents where they jump the traffic light.

10) The state of pedestrians is really bad in Bangalore, it seems that none of the pedestrian light works here, I have seen foreigners crossing the road frantically! And they are talking about making Bangalore an international city!

BTW this post is inspired from Rathi's post on traffic read it here


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