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![]() jokes apart - assuming you took the salem route instead of the sathy/chamrajnagar route. When did you leave Coimbatore? 2 hours for 25 kms is actually good by bangalore standards. Maybe the pinch was felt even more because of the high speed inertia you carried till Attibele. | |
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Chennai
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Any way I would say lets not go into that debate and refrain from discussing high speed aspects. The point conveyed being, its the last mile that ate up most of the time and yes that does sound frustrating. Last edited by ampere : 27th November 2015 at 18:20. | |
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Chennai
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| ![]() Sorry, If I was not clear, 100-110 was the highest speed I maintained and could have gone max to 120 for few mins and not the average. |
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() Major traffic block at Malleswaram & even Raj Bhavan road even. And another jam at Sony world, Maharajah's & Wipro office in Koramangala. Enjoy!! |
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BHPian Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Hosur
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| ![]() Some heavy fog since 5am today! Ride safe. Visibility is very poor and don't forget to drive slow. Sitting at my office, nothing is visible in my vicinity!! |
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BHPian Join Date: May 2008 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() It looks like companies are starting to realize the toll the ever worsening traffic is taking on their employees. http://www.bangaloremirror.com/banga...w/49954126.cms May be this will wake up the people responsible for fixing this mess? Nothing like a few companies deciding to move and effect it can potentially have on real estate prices. Only the real estate lobby faced with the prospect of people leaving the city can put some real pressure on the govt. |
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() Doubt it. The real estate lobby will also move, that's all. Ten years from now we'll probably have a 1000-page thread here about the traffic woes in Thiruvananthapuram. :-) The real estate developers in Kerala aren't washed-in-milk either; recently they got the Kerala fire chief fired because he refused to rubber stamp pervasive non-compliance with fire safety rules. |
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I know that is for people who work outside an office in Europe, but if ever such a rule was made applicable to officegoers in Bangalore, then all we need to do is drive to office, touch the gate and return. And on rainy days, we might just have to hook a U-turn somewhere between home and office ![]() | |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() Working from traffic is becoming a reality. ![]() Quote:
Source In a separate incident, cops have filed a case against ORRCA for the incomplete skywalk. Quote:
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BHPian Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: 560100
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| ![]() I recently got a mail from a consultant for an opportunity. Two questions that stood out were Where do you stay in Bangalore? Are you okay with working @ Whitefield location? : It seems whitefield traffic situation has found its way into job opportunity queries. May be in the near future, following questions might find its way there -do you own an apartment in bangalore, if so which location, -which car do you own, diesel or petrol, manual or automatic That said, once the nallaruhalli offloading track was rectified, the hour long wait there has reduced. Varthur road too has got some relief after the craters were temporarily filled. |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() Average speeds in Bangalore over the years: ![]() Soon, cats and dogs will overtake our vehicles and will point at us and laugh their hearts out. |
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() This apparently is becoming more and more prevalent, as a placement consultant we use confided in me. People not living in the vicinity of Whitefield are becoming more and more unwilling to take up jobs in the area. Some companies are finding it quite difficult to hire while based there. Soon I expect there will be an exodus from Whitefield until some sort of equilibrium is reached. |
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BHPian Join Date: May 2008 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() 2 stories on the toll bangalore (specifically whitefield) traffic is taking in people - One person I know quit his job in a company located in whitefield because he could not handle the traffic and the daily 4 hour commutes - Another person vacated his own house in whitefield because he could not commute to his office outside whitefield and took up a house on rent closer to his office. It is becoming clear that if you work in whitefield, only people living in the immediate vicinity should even consider it. This is what happens when you build a locality with office capacity of over 1 lakh and have only 4 roads to speak of to get in and out. |
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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: BengaLuru
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| ![]() While everyone everywhere is talking about how whitefield is not a good place to live or work, unless you are doing both, I am silently happy to see no one talking about early morning commute. Recently one of my friend working in Ecospace was grinning about how bellandur is closer to us in south bangalore compared to whitefield and was trying to sympathise with me. I asked him how long will his commute take both ways and he told 1.5+2 = 3.5hrs a day. That time I took pride in telling that I spend less than that much, taking 0.75+1.5 = 2.25 hrs just by starting early in the morning ![]() Friday morning I left home at 6:40, got stuck at chinappanahalli railway crossing and still reached office in whitefield at 7:25 ![]() The big circle route I cover everyday: ![]() Last edited by audioholic : 29th November 2015 at 12:32. |
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