Of course, movies are not real life. But it pains me to see that in movies, the characters rarely face any traffic or parking problems while in real life… we cannot get anywhere in time… we cannot find a place to park our cars.
I am annoyed with Delhi. Very annoyed.
The city is a pain to drive in during office hours. Too much traffic. No traffic sense on the road. Cops are designed to make your life harder…
Today was worse. The Olympic Torch thing meant that we had 100 times more cops on the roads. And they created a mess.
Instead of working on improving the traffic management, they had stationed their vehicles on the road sides. As if we have enough space on the roads for the cars which are plying on the city roads.
And I am not sure on what is going to happen in the future. Delhi simply cannot handle the number of vehicles it has in it. The government seems to be doing nothing on it. Any logical suggestion is thrown out of the window. Looks like they are expecting magic to happen from Metro and the Bus Corridor.
They have to realize one fact. People are lazy. You have made them lazy. Public transport has been a disaster for so many years. To expect people to leave their cars at home and travel on buses and trains… is not going to happen anytime soon.
I guess they would try to kill the problem instead of coming out with a solution.
I have failed to find a decent badge to display on my blog to show my support for Free Tibet movement. I am a supporter and I need to show it to piss off the government. Not that it matters to them. People’s opinion is the last thing on their minds…
Here are some annoyances I face on a daily basis on Delhi NCR roads:
I would be able to travel to Connaught Place from my place within 40 minutes.
And it would not take me the same time to reach the Galleria market in DLF in Gurgaon itself.
I have done both.
These guys need to be told to not try overtaking a vehicle if they are not going to be able to achieve that in less than a minute time.
I see them do that with cars, trucks and buses. And they struggle to do the overtaking move causing lots of delays to people who are much more capable of overtaking at legal speeds.