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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Belur/Bangalore
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![]() Last year before the festival enroute Pune from Bangalore, I was waylaid by similar kids with two people holding a rope across the road near Shiggaon but the fellow traveller with me was a local who managed to get rid of them. Similar was the case in Hassan bypass when I escaped from them by showing them my Driving licence issued by Hassan RTO and my address mentioning my residence as Belur and they realized I was a local and let me go. We all know where this money collected goes to! | ||
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BHPian Join Date: May 2010 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() Parag - Well done!! Just a few posts earlier I had posted about this messy junction, and here is a BHPian standing tall. ![]() I wish I too get proficient in Kannada soon. |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: May 2009 Location: Atlanta, GA
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| ![]() Of late, I see too many cows on Hosur Road - this is especially before the turning to Electronic City Phase 2. Even buses and lorries suddenly swerve to miss these animals and bikers and cars suffer because of this. It really is a disaster waiting to happen. I have also noticed these animals cud-chewing on Begur Road and the road from NGV towards Neelasandra. |
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BHPian ![]() | ![]() Kudos Parag; you did the right thing and you may have put some sense in the Drivers head for sure. I hope he does not try this again. Cops coming to the scene would not have made a difference as they would have just asked you to move on. Its like one Govt Servant coming in aid of the other ![]() |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: May 2009 Location: Atlanta, GA
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BHPian Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() Cows and buffalos are natural (eco-friendly) speed-breakers. Instead of having spine-breaking humps on the road, we should have more and more slow moving heavy-weight animals on the road to naturally curb over-speeding. This is a truly Indian solution to an Indian problem. About 7 years back, on sighting a huge buffalo stading right in the middle of Airport Road (near Domlur), my VP (an American) asked me if he could expect to see an elephant as well ... |
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![]() But I agree as well, speed breakers are too many in Bangalore and at times I'm scared on a new or old road not traveled so often because of my 8 month old baby in the car. It can be a bad scene when you jump one! | |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() ![]() | ![]() More infrastructure work and more traffic diversions! News in today's Hindu. The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Infrastructure gets a lion's share |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Bangalore
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The new city could be located on the other side of Devanahalli, with well planned wide roads, and other public infrastructure, including provision for public transport, parks etc. The shape of the new city could be long rather than the present city's circular shape, to make it easy to plan local train lines and arterial roads. A lot of the new companies must be encouraged to start their businesses there. Top priority and publicity should be given to the development of the new city, to immediately ease the burden on our present beloved Bengalooru ![]() Last edited by mooza : 1st September 2010 at 07:46. | |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() ![]() Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() Here is a picture that I'd taken over a year ago. The location: Richmond Road (the stretch between Lifestyle and Vellarah Junction) The time: 9:30 am. Can you'll notice what's wrong about this picture? |
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Bangalore / Bettendorf
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| ![]() maybe it's the person on the bike (in front of auto) struggling to get past the bus? I can see just one tire in this pic! Cheers! -z |
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BHPian Join Date: May 2010 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() Or maybe the other person couldn't hold for anymore and trying to do 'something' in doggy style!! ![]() Last edited by ch.nathan : 1st September 2010 at 11:42. |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() ![]() Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Bangalore
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And to make things that much worse, buses with 'DVD-digital-surround-sound-sweety-aishwarya-rai-road-runner' stickers are the worst of the lot! They haven't heard of lane-discipline at all, they have absolutely no respect for other motorists on the road, they hurtle down narrow roads and switch lanes like their lives depend on it, and lastly, they sound their horns with incredible gusto! These buses need to be either banned from the city roads, or the drivers need to be pulled up and given a hiding! | ||
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