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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Bangalore
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In case of gridlocks and when you are not driving, do you attempt to get down and try to guide traffic? I do that all the time and helps save my time and also get a lot of gratifying gestures from fellow commuters. One thing I ensure is, I take an unbiased look at the gridlock. I am not bent on moving my side of the traffic alone. | |
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BHPian Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() I had to catch a flight from KIAL at 10.15 PM. Being a domestic flight, and having done my web check-in, it was sufficient for me to reach the airport by 9.30. From 6-6.30 PM I tried unsuccessfully to get a cab. UberGo/ UberX was hovering around 4X and I didn't feel it was worth taking it. Other operators simply did not have any cabs in the area. Finally decided to take a bus from HAL and took my car out at 6.45PM with my wife. I was not yet aware of the traffic situation and was thinking that even if the bus takes 1.5 hrs, I can reach the airport by 8.45. Then my wife can come back with the car after I catch the bus. It's hardly a 5 minute drive from my house till HAL bus stop from where the Volvo buses to the airport start. Imagine my horror when it took 30 mins to reach there. It was jam-packed bumper to bumper all the way from Diamond District (close to where I live) to HAL. It was already ~7.20 and there wasn't any bus in sight. I figured that if the bus takes even two hours to reach the airport (which was a conservative estimate given the traffic!), I'm running a very real risk of missing the flight. Then I decided to drive to the airport itself from there via Suranjan Das Road-Old Madras Road-ORR-Hebbal. And I had to do it in less than 2 hrs! I think I spent 45 minutes trying to get to Old Madras Road. Then another 40 minutes on ORR to Hebbal. I'd given up all hope by this time and I was exploring options of taking another flight ![]() That's when the Elevated Expressway came to my rescue. When I started on the expressway, it was almost 8.50PM and raining heavily. Still, I somehow managed to reach the airport by 9.10 and thanked my lucky stars and my wife ![]() First time I ever drove on the Suranjan Das -Old Madras road route and I was appalled at the state of the roads and the bottlenecks on this stretch. Of course Google played a helpful part on this stretch when it suggested a parallel, internal road to avoid some congested traffic and saved me a valuable 10 minutes! |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Wellington
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| ![]() It appears as if some maintenance work took place last night leading to that huge pit. I passed this point around 7am and it was bumper to bumper a little after decathalon. This pit was once a nasty rut in the road which they had filled up. When I saw it today, it appears as if they dug it for some reason. They were filling it when I reached the spot. With a couple of heavy vehicles in front of me, I could see them manoeuvre to the right to avoid the pit. However; I could see them literally fall into the pit and that got me worked up. I drive a low slung sedan. When I reached the point where the pit was, I was faced with a maintenance board and could see the depth of the pit. Following the truck in front of me was not an option as the car would not have made it across. Luckily, the pit was not running across the full width of the road. It was possible to manoeuvre left where the road had some rubble and get past this point. |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() The ITPL road from Hope Farm to Bigbazaar has become a mess again. Lot of potholes have surfaced due to the recent rains. Also, there is a pit dug up right at the junction blocking one lane of traffic. This junction is becoming a night mare. The lane of Vehicles extended till Vydehi yesterday at 5:20 PM. |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Cubicle
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| ![]() You wouldn't have got a cab simply because all cabs were, like everyone else, sitting in traffic! A colleague managed to get a cab from office (Bommanahalli) yesterday evening to go to New BEL Road. Took him 3.5 hours. He said he watched a full Hindi movie on the way home! |
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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Belur/Bangalore
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| ![]() As expected, lot of rants for yesterday. I was just about lucky to escape this mayhem and how? I had given my Ertiga for the 70K Service at Surakshaa in EC and I got a call that the car was ready around 1750. I walked around 1.4 kms from my EC Office to this ASC and by the time the billing was done, it was 1820. Of course a horrible time to even think of leaving and driving back to North Bangalore area. So what do I do? I sit at the customer lounge, read magazines and newspapers, check my Whastapp and in between ensure to see how traffic is faring on BETL and Sankey roads and as usual the traffic was thick. In fact BETL was showing me thick maroon for almost all the 9 kms!! I wait at the ASC till 2030, take the service road and reach NICE Gate in 3 mins (As I approached NICE from PES College side), spend around 5 minutes at the toll itself to pay, drive 30 minutes on NICE, spend around 10 minutes on NBTL till Goreguntepalya, and reach home exactly in 1 hour's time around 2130 without any sweat, in peace. This affair cost me 155+20 as toll and a loss of 20 as I had bought Day pass on BETL yesterday morning but nevertheless, It was such a peaceful drive back home and an apt decision to sit at the ASC and wait for another 2 hours. I read news papers today and this thread and realised what I had just escaped, successfully!! |
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Bangalore
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![]() The solution lies in tacking the number of motor vehicles on the road, rather than adding more bodies on the road.. in my humble opinion. | |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() It's raining very,very heavy from my office window at Marathalli, and the skies are completely overcast . Today may be more miserable than yesterday. Planning to leave a bit early to avoid the traffic mess. |
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BHPian ![]() | ![]() I came across this article on The Hindu, was thinking about this situation since a long time. Quote by MA Saleem: “The situation is worsening. Unless we do something in the next one year, areas in the south-east will have no space left for vehicles to move,” http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...cle7819475.ece Its high time people start sharing rides or use public transport. |
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BHPian Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Pune
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| ![]() Completely off topic, but couldn't help chipping in. I am seeing a lot of news coverage on the horrible state of roads in Bangalore. Are those seriously so bad? or is the the usual case of media hyping it up? I mean, I have pretty low standards when it comes to public roads. Pune roads are nothing much to be proud about in the first place! |
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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: BengaLuru
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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Bangalore
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Arterial roads are jammed and in bad shape, thinking of taking alternate routes scares us even more because they are in far worse shape! Couple this with residents closing off public roads from access to outsiders and you have a harrowing experience on Bangalore roads. Every. Single. Day. A little note from me, Back when I was in school, the rains were something I loved looking at through the window. Even during my PU and B.E, the sight of the rains outside the window and gauging how heavy it is gave me this calm, soothing feeling. But ever since I started working at Whitefield, I look at the rain through the window and it sends this uneasy feeling down my spine. Why? I know the 18km journey that takes 1 hour, 15 minutes by motorcycle will now take even longer. As a two wheeler, I need to be scared of being pushed into deep puddles by cab drivers and ruthless bus drivers. And also having to tolerate increased indiscipline from our motorists. What do I say about our roads? The potholes get wider and the motorable portions of the road get narrower. Not the least bit helped by the flooded road shoulders that just pile on the misery on what is going to be a terrible, chaotic, patience-testing Tuesday evening. Couple this with my dreadful office hours of 10:30AM to 7:30PM and I am sure to be heading to the hospital much earlier than I should be! Also, While descending the Marathahalli Bridge and going towards Old Airport Road, there are imbeciles taking a U-Turn on top of the divider right after the ORR and Marathahalli Junction and blocking traffic. Wish I had a tank that I could use to run over these morons! ![]() Last edited by ashwin.terminat : 3rd November 2015 at 14:29. | |
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Pune-Bangalore
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Stay in Pune and be happy and hope you don't get ideas of moving here for a job ![]() On the flip side , one does develop amazing skill to squeeze your car through really tight spaces if you drive. Even if you don't then you still develop lots of patience , a penchant for music since you sit in one place for long hours. Last edited by ambivalent_98 : 3rd November 2015 at 14:40. | |
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