Friday, May 2, 2008

Traffic Today!

How does it feel to ride in today’s traffic, especially in an urban area? Riding a two wheeler or driving a four wheeler is no more a pleasure in any of the cosmopolitan cities, it is more of a necessity and a convenience factor.

Everyone is zooming away, irrespective of size, capacity and horsepower. Everyone is in a hurry and everyone thinks the road is a racecourse/racing arena. What with the banks offering vehicle loans day in and day out, there are several thousand vehicles registered every day. An increase in population and India Shining(opening up and growth of economy) has lead to a vehicle overload on the roads today.

There is absolutely no road sense, be it an educated/uneducated person riding/driving, be it a richster/poor man, be it a man/woman, be it a teenager/old person. Invariably people don’t follow rules. Everyone think they are super smart and try break the rules thereby causing traffic jams, accidents and chaos for themselves. For instance when it comes to overtaking, you have people overtaking you from both sides and they don’t honk while they overtake, while that’s when they need to let you know so. And freak what about those idiots who ride on the right side of the road….ever wondered why? That’s cause he/she has just returned from the United States of America you see, will take a while for the individual to get accustomed to the Indian rule of riding/driving on the left hand side of the road. What with the kind of turns they take, people who want to turn left, stand at the extreme right at a signal and cut across the rest. Annoying or what? Even better, at a signal/traffic jam, the horn is used to it’s maximum. I turn to tell the bloody fool to ‘fly over’ me, if s/he is blind not to see that there is no where I can move.

I ride very slowly and hence am ridiculed but I care two hoots. My life is precious and I believe in following the rules and riding safe, cause all around me are senseless idiots, who possess the power to purchase and have a machine to accelerate. They have no bloody brains, all they can do is fight, create chaos, add to NOISE pollution, help add fowl language and words to one’s vocabulary and ensure that others become BP patients at the EOD.

To ride/drive and handle traffic on Indian roads with all kinds of vehicles, big and small(bullock carts to Volvo buses), is not just a huge task but a skill by itself. What do you think?

8 comments:

Princess Fiona said...

lol...i cuss and swear a lot when im driving...good thing i got tints in my car :)

See Bee said...

remember hazrath? imagine - those dudes were doing this yeveryday

why dont u link that blogpost to this one ;)

popsie said...

Amritha- Tell me about it! To curse and swear is natural when driving.:-)

Chitty Cat - Yep, good idea. Will link that post to this one. How can I ever forget Hazrath and our daily WonderLa rides.Thanks for the suggestion.:-)

See Bee said...

dai change this template da - its hard on the eye

Jack Out of the Box said...

guess you missed the entire premise of what I wanted to say when i talked about the train analogy! suggest a reread. its not all about getting off when you want to but rather about talking things so that you understand. guess i also wanted to say the same thing you wrote!

Paras said...

wow!! u are getting into some serious stuff now

Anonymous said...

i agree....coz i hav experienced a smallll accident myself!

Anonymous said...

True..People seem impatient to get wherever they want to and think honking is going to get them there faster ..Grrrrr.