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| ![]() @Googleman, You have every right to rant on. But I am amused why you put up with this ordeal everyday. |
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BHPian Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() I recently shifted from Bangalore to Noida and here are my observations after driving for one year in NCR. Roads here are much wider and smooth than Bangalore. But being the National Capital Region this was expected. Noida and Gurgaon are better planed cities. Road sense, less said the better. But somehow I feel It takes a hell lot more tome to construct something in Bangalore and quality is not upto the mark. Be it e-city tollway(should have been 6 laned at least), those magic boxes etc. PS: I miss Bangalore badly. I am yet to find a pub here that even comes close to Purple Haze, LoR et el. Those sagars ![]() ![]() |
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Bangalore
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![]() BTW, dude you should be happy to be able to drive to lovely hill stations like nainital and masoorie. Here all you get is Nandi hill as a hill station ![]() Don't worry, Purple Haze is anyways closed now but Ofcourse you won't find pubs like Bangalore anywhere, except Mumbai. Bangalore rocks in the field of recreation. I remember those days when you could party all night long in "the Club" and Zero Gs, now they shut down max at 12:00. | |
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BANNED Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Bengalooru
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| ![]() @Googleman Well the distance between Noida & Naintal is around 270 odd KMs. Masoorie is 300+ For that distance you will find plenty of places around Bangalore. Actually you get beaches from Bangalore. All you need is to open your eyes. @perseus Bangalore has history of 500 years. Old streets are narrow. Nobody forsaw IT boom then. Newer roads are quite broad. E City tollway is actually a flyover. Hence its 4 laned. Road below is 6 laned with service roads on either sides. Noida & Gurgoan are relatively new and hence planned for current needs. It about 10 years it will be congested. |
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BHPian Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Bangalore
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Yes. I somehow love the city. (or my girlfriend who is in Bangalore and insists I come back immediately.) ![]() PS: I have been driving my KA registered bike here without any issues. I have been stopped multiple times by traffic police but no one even asked about paying road tax. But I think thats for another thread. | |||
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Sure is a rant, but tell us what difference do you find between both the places on an honest note? Related to traffic? | |||
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BHPian Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Bangalore
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BHPian Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Bangalore
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![]() When I don't want to drive, I park at the nearest Metro Station,flash my Metro Card and hop on. Namma Metro should learn from their counterpart here. | |
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: May 2010 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() On the brighter side, atleast you don't get kidnapped by Naxals while on the road here :P. When I lived in Jharkhand, I always wanted to drive till Kharagpur from Jamshedpur not withstanding the pot holed roads , but my local friends told me to give up the idea due to other factors. I'm not defending Bangalore here coz I don't belong here, nor do i plan to spend the rest of my life here. But every place has its good and bad things and all things considered, Bangalore is not such a bad place to be in. And atleast the government is taking steps and constructing new flyovers as well as the Metro, instead of sitting idle. Atleast we have a government here, instead of governor's rule. |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() @Googleman; Dude, why don't you chill out for a bit? We got your point, there is no need to go overboard on this. ![]() Quote:
Ranting about traffic is one thing, but you have to learn to respect the place where you live in whether it may be Bangalore, Noida, Delhi or any other place for that matter and not be ignorant. And by the way this has nothing to do with 'patriotism' as you call it. Quote:
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BHPian ![]() | ![]() This happened past Sunday, @7PM. Had stopped my SwifDy at an unmanned junction in the HAL airport road, to allow vehicles from the opposite lane to take a U-turn when I felt a bump. Pulled-over to the left and see a Ford Fusion follow me and park behind. Got down to see a biggg dent in the rear bumper and luckily no damage elsewhere. The fusion driver had this to say "a 2-wheeler guy bumped me from behind". Yeahhhh and thus he drove himself towards the left of my SwifDy, managing to dent the left side of the rear bumper. I was speechless and just noted down his insurance and license details and shrugged-off his suggestion to file an FIR to claim from insurance from his. (was in no mood to take proceedings with that guy!) Tried to pull the dent back via known tricks, but didnt work out. I had to drive down to Chennai the very next day and as the Yeshwantpur Mandovi workshop was booked for the week, I am still driving with a kicked-in rear. All this after I rejected the valet parking option in BrandFactory, Marathahalli and chose to visit Total instead. PS: I had to say Thanks to the Fusion guy, for not creating a scene. PPS: Dont think the dent can be repaired without leaving ugly scars, have decided to replace the bumper. Ironically, the same bumper got its first wound at Brand Factory; last year. (my mistake though). Last edited by Rocky_Balboa : 13th October 2010 at 18:14. |
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BHPian ![]() | ![]() I wanted to share this here, and suggest everyone not to stop the vehicle whatever happens. If you ask me now, I would say its alright to hit someone and end up in the police station or the court and let the law take its course rather than ending up with the goons. Can't predict what all tricks these scumbags come up with. Couple of days my friend was driving alone in his Esteem to Whitefield. Close to the Agara (the lonely stretch after the signal) towards the ring road, a small girl came running from the pavement and fell in front of the car as usual. My friend braked in time and rolled down the windows to check. As soon as he got down from the car, four guys armed with pistols and daggers thrashed him up, pulled him up into the car and drove away. They demanded 1L from him and finally settled for 25k. They made him call friends to get the money and exchange it at a deserted place. Friend was already beaten up very badly and they warned him of dire consequences if at all his friend/s tried to alert the cops. Later they dumped him at a place and drove away with his car. Guys, never ever get out the car whatever happens. Keep driving and report to the nearest police station at any cost. And all this took place at 4.30 in the evening. ![]() Last edited by jeeva : 17th October 2010 at 09:26. |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Bengaluru
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| ![]() I wouldn't call this mugging. Its dacoity. Hope the perpetrators are caught. |
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