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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: May 2009 Location: Atlanta, GA
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| ![]() Raining around Koramangala now - thankfully I'd reached home at 5:30. I am sure there will be major clogging at Silkboard, Madiwala etc. |
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BHPian Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Bangalore
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Looking at the maps- I guess it can't get any red... Meet be it should become black! | |
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BHPian Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Madras
Posts: 237
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| ![]() Heavy traffic between marathalli and sarjapur road on both sides. |
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Pune-Bangalore
Posts: 792
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| ![]() One evening of rains and the potholes open up and all hell break loose. To add to that many temples celebrating putting pandals bang in the middle of the road. The icing on the cake is pathetic driving and road manners by two wheelers. Nothing against them going fast or overtaking, but playing a game of chicken with oncoming traffic and daring someone to "adjust" when there is no room on the left hand side is really stupid. But seems like the more powerful the motorcycles get the more irresponsible the riders are becoming. Autorickshaws add to the melee but then being wider than a motorcycle they can't push their luck too much. Bikers play a dangerous game and often too close for comfort. I wish they would realise that they are open and exposed than the guy in the car and probability of serious injury is more for them rather than the 4/6 wheeler whom they are trying to dare. Wearing a helmet does not make them immune to injury and an excuse to drive badly. |
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Distinguished - BHPian Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Beans Town
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On the other hand, here we have Bangalore city, the silicon valley of India, the "Garden City".. one moderate rain and one has to spend half an hour in traffic to travel even 2 kilometres. Powercuts happen well before even a drop of water falls on ground, streetlights are also cut-off and then the adventure begins - between battling the darkness, trying to see through the high-beams of oncoming traffic, switching ones own high-beam on and off to assist other motorists while they may not do the same for you, setting the aircon to cold in an already cold weather just to prevent the windows from fogging up.. its a wild, wild ride. Pitch darkness at 7 p.m in what is supposed to be India's 2nd or 3rd greatest city, 2nd tier village is more like it. Any city which cannot provide power continuously must be instantly stripped of city or town status. | |
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Pune-Bangalore
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Power cuts are everywhere but its probably only in Bangalore where there is no schedule and the power is switched off for 3 hours a day at any time. Street lights are typically non existent. Oh they are there for sure but probably they are too tall for electricity to reach that height. What angers me the most is the complete lack of awareness of the local administration and the government of the republic of Karnataka. I like this smiley.... ![]() | |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() Some good news. Looks like BBMP is outsourcing maintenance of arterial roads to private bodies. Quote:
Further, More punishments for those who ride/park their vehicles on the pavements of TenderSURE roads! Quote:
Such lovely news this morning! ![]() Last edited by ashwin.terminat : 29th October 2015 at 11:11. | ||
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Space-Time
Posts: 484
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| ![]() Last evening was a killer commute. I had to drop wifey at the City railway station. Left home at 6 pm and reached at 7:52 pm! Her train was at 8 pm. We were sure she wouldn't make it, but she barely did. Jams everywhere, signals staying red much longer than usual, new signals, flooded ares where cars / 3 / 2 wheelers were too afraid to proceed. 18 km took 2 hours one way and 1:30 on return. I sorely missed having an automatic transmission. Bad roads added to all the other problems. |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() | ![]() Today, Koramangala 80foot road was clogged. Flipkart have decided to use Volvo buses for their employees and all these buses were parked on 80 foot road thus halving the usable road space. |
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Bangalore
Posts: 3,043
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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: BengaLuru
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| ![]() Pipe laying work on residency road led to cranes taking up half the road near brigade road junction at 6:45AM. Just keep this in mind in case anyone is travelling that side since I am not sure if they would stop or the work will go on all day. It had piled up some traffic early in the morning itself. |
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And my dear sir "helmets"? Pray what are those? Are you talking about the right elbow protection, or the fuel tank ornament some people carry? Full disclosure: I am a bike rider who regularly faces abuse and ridicule for following rules, wearing a helmet and not choosing to play around with my life and limb. | |
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Stuttgart
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| ![]() BTP posted this a while ago, people please be aware!!! ![]() |
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Bangalore
Posts: 1,432
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![]() Buses are much more easily available and at convenient locations, the lower costs and my love for train travel is the only factors which make me choose trains. | |
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BHPian Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() Quote: The traffic jam in this direction was not due to the rally itself as it was actually under the iblur bridge at that time. But a lot of idiots decided to stop their cars in the middle of the flyover and got out the cars just to take a peek of what is happening below. ![]() ![]() These cars blocked two of the three lanes in the process which caused the jam ! In the opposite direction towards marathalli, traffic was backed up all the way till agara! Last edited by SR71-Blackbird : 30th October 2015 at 12:35. | |
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