Sunday, May 15, 2005

Sense of belonging

These days Bangalore has been intolerable. For more reasons than one. I feel people have lost the sense of belonging or even worse they never had it in them.

I am obviously talking of the traffic! I mean how can a big town or small city like Bangalore take so much traffic? Ok, we can't reverse this process...but hey at least ppl who are driving/riding should know how to drive and to follow rules.

Every rule has an exception and everybody seems to go by the exception always and forget the rule! Autos are bloody terrible drivers. Dont even mention about the zig-zagging two-wheelers. Cabs, Buses...u name it all are terrible. Educated idiots are the people who drive cars most of the times. They will follow what others do rather
than doing what is right. No sense...only nonsense.

If it's a 2-way road without a divider...ppl assume that the other side of the road is also theirs...and jump to that lane adding to the already jamms situation. Irregular stopping...no indication while turning or
changing lanes. Littering the road while driving...Pollution....oooph..­.where are we headed? Doom for sure.

Bangalore/India needs a catastrophe to eliminate all nonsense...it needs a benovelent dictator who will fill fear in ppl about not obeying rules.

Our law is very kind. It's only about paying fines. They should introduce a system, wherein, if anyone violates a law, they are required to work for the same for sometime free of cost. For example, if someone has created a jam...he/she should be made to stand and monitor the traffic till the jam is cleared. Ppl pay up money easily than lose time over such activities. Only when they know what the trouble is will they ever experience the "sense of belonging".