Disgusting Bangalore traffic

Reaching home now-a-days from office feels like eternity. Bangalore roads are being flooded both by water and vehicles. Just a couple of days of continuous rain in the evening and we can see complete chaos over the roads. My drive from office to home took a cool 90 minutes yesterday. I remember reaching home in 30 minutes in the early days of 2001.

Yesterday, I noted down the time we spent waiting for the traffic signals to have mercy on us and i found that we spent close to 30 minutes just waiting for the signals to flash green. And to add the morning delay of 10 to 15 minutes, gives us a nice 45 minutes of wait/delay daily in the Bangalore traffic. So, on an average, we Bangaloreans [ ok, not all, but just the few?? unlucky ones like us ] spend 22.5 hours a month just waiting for the signal. And if extended, this means about 270 hours a year !!! This sums up to spending more than 11 days a year simply waiting for the traffic lights !!! This is 50% in excess of the world average of 7 days. [ Yeah, on an average, a person spends one week every year waiting for the signal to splash green :-) ]. But then, Bangalore is all set to shift that average towards a higher number.

The only good thing that i could do while waiting for the signal was to close my eyes and doze off and think of such silly calculations as above, listening to any damn song that plays on Radio city ...