I cannot understand, why and how the financial capital of India is left in the condition it is left to....mumbai... i stay in suburbs...there are only 3 roads in our part of the world....
Link road, SV road, and WE highway...and entire mumbai will be found clogging these 3 roads morning from 8:30 to 11 and evening from 5:30 to 9:00 ... there is no 4th route to take...once 1/2 Km away from home took me 1 1/2 hours to cover...can it get any sadder?
Worst is...to move from east to west (across SV road) there are just hand full of connections made...and that too...good enuff for only 2 vehicals to go at a time...and you will find rows and rows of BEST buses, autowala's and our private vehicals fighting their way into it...why can't this connectivity be made better? i dont know
despite my indicator to take left...and when i am about to take it...auto's , bikes, cycles....will happily over take me from left ..can they not see the indicator blinking and the car turning? and when i am about to move, three girls will come giggling crossing the road taking their own sweet time, in no hurry that they are holding fleet of cars ... i helpless listen to the honking of the vehicles i am holding,wait for the girls to crawl at a tortoise speed and then move again...
and if this is not enuff...the rains will do the rest...the handful connections i spoke about will be submerged in water...
i want to know...why can't this be sorted...mumbai is a fantastic city but the traffic sucks...lives would be so much better if this one problem is sorted...but somewhere i feel that the mumbaikars very strangely take pride in this chaotic traffic....
when u are stuck in km's of traffic jam look around to see how people react...they are as calm as ever...as if they anticipated this...that amazes me...that is not how this problem will be solved...please do not accept it, as once u accept it ...any scope of improvement stops, even before it starts...this is NOT how traffic it is suppose to be....if u think this is it...then this is how it will remain....
i was discussing this with a friend at work...and so proudly he told me..."this traffic is nothing wait for rains and u will see no one will be able to go out for work"...and his eyes were glittering with pride stating this...he did not know how sad that smile and the glitter in his eyes made me...
i wanna tell all mumbaikars...u have a fantastic city...just don't accept the traffic situation as is...coz if you do not want a change...there will never be any...
2 comments:
haha the comment about everyone being so calm in a traffic jam is just hilarious.
i cant stand bbay traffic much either - i dont know how people can tolerate sitting around in a car, in the heat (if they dont have an ac), with all the noise around.
luckily i can travel by train (Which is a whole other story - but opposite direction, odd hours and first class make it seems like a walk in the park thank god).
i dont think bbay commuting problems are going to go away anytime soon. i would think it will take another decade atleast to bring some sense into how we travel.
someone should do a study about how much financial loss (forget any other kind) happens because of people having to travel so much and for so long.
but most mumbaikars believe this is a price they have to pay to do what they need to in this city. your frustration will only grow unfortunately - and how ever horrible this sounds, i would still tell you to accept it as a part of life here.
hey...dont give up hope...'you get what you ask for' and if you given into this...u will not get anything better...believe and it will happen, ask and it will be given...its you educated youngsters on whom the future of the city is depending on...don't u just accept!!!
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