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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() | ![]() Came past that signal recently. People do block that entrance. One option: go and stand right in front of them. Let the traffic build up behind you. |
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| ![]() A big relief to drive at K.R.Puram bridge ( the one above the Trident showrooms ) as they re-laid the tarmac recently. Earlier it had worst uneven bumps and it was dangerously alarming to drive in two wheelers. |
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| ![]() Scene from late last evening: On the New Thippasandra Main Road, a new TVS Wego comes in from one of the cross roads and cuts right in front of me, rider not wearing a helmet, nothing surprising so far, but I see him riding quite fast and only his right hand is on the handlebar. It's only then that I notice there is an infant in deep slumber on the rider's left shoulder ![]() There is no limit to the foolish things people do on our streets and really care a damn for their safety, but this was just too much! I wouldn't wish anything bad to happen or curse even my worst enemy if he did something like this ![]() |
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| ![]() (Mods : please delete if found inappropriate) From a whatsapp forward: To succeed in life you have to cross a lots of bridges and the most difficult one is ..... Marathalli bridge ![]() |
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![]() So true and we can add so many more to that list which are equally difficult bridges to cross ![]() Last edited by NPV : 19th January 2015 at 08:42. | |
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| ![]() I read in a Kannada newspaper that the Government has agreed to allow lorries to enter city limits between 11 AM to 4 PM after the lorry association decided to protest. |
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| ![]() Infact the lorry folks were planning to go on strike to protest against this ban. Now that the govt has removed the ban, the lorry guys have called off their strike. |
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Despite the ban, have seen crawling Tata Aces occupying the right lane on ORR doing 21.3kmph while a Ashok Leyland Dost overtakes it from the center lane at 21.35 kmph. While doing so, drivers of both the "trucks" engage in a social conversation and exchange sweets and share music via Bluetooth until one of their vehicles attains better speeds. And just when you thought a gap is good enough for your car to pass, there is a broken down Sand Lorry next to the median and a BMTC Volvo haphazardly stops to pick someone who just signalled to board that bus! Our woes will never end! | ||
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| ![]() We need to absorb some short-term pain for long-term gain. The truckers should be allowed to go on strike for as long as they please (how long will losing 'all' business make sense over losing 'some' business anyway?), even if it means short-term shortage of essential goods to end-consumers. We've had decades of every Tom, Dick & Harry holding us hostage for his own gain, about time they're told to tow the line for public good or perish. Fat chance of that happening though, when the head of the trucker unions are probably relatives of the decision makers. ![]() Quote:
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In this case, the government should have a plan that, if the truckers go on strike, will enforce ESMA, take over trucks and start moving goods at its own expense. It should have task forces to detect hoarding and arrangements with TN/AP governments to directly procure farm produce. Then, only then, should they show the proverbial middle finger to the bellicose truckers. | |
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Letting the end user fend for himself is NOT what I meant by short-term pain (though it would invariably cause some), I was rather pointing in the same general direction as you, just didn't convey it appropriately or clearly enough. It's an entirely different debate that our government(s) rarely show the spine to invoke ESMA and get these folks in line. If they'd done that when these 'blackmail' strikes first happened, we probably wouldn't have this 'strike for everything' mentality crippling essential services and holding everyone to ransom. Last edited by Chetan_Rao : 19th January 2015 at 15:11. | |
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