Reception on Bannerghatta Road
Last Friday I had been to the wedding reception of Sudhakar and Shwetha in a hall on Bannerghatta Road. Both Sudhakar and Shwetha are working in my team and moreover they sit in adjacent cubicles, saying "Hiiiiiii" to eachother ;-)
The reception was great and we had a very lavish dinner. Reaching the hall from M.G.Road was one horrendous experience though. I had only heard about this pathetic traffic jams on the Bannerghatta road around the Dairy circle. But this was the first time that I had the privilege of being stuck up in this killer traffic on my bike. There were only 3 occassions which lasted for miniscule seconds, that my bike was on third and fourth gear in the total 6 km stretch that took me 30 minutes to cover !!! That was some ride ....
The road is so narrow that hardly 2 cars can go side by side, and you find 3 cars fighting to get ahead along with some very rashly driven busses. And ofcourse, you will find bikes almost in any place where there is a little bit of space available. It looks like as if all the people living in Bannerghatta road had to go to the center of the city for work and are returning back to their homes at the same time. There are plenty of shops on this road, including granite shops to hardware shops to bakeries and almost anything needed is available. Its a messy market place that doesnt help the traffic at all.
As if this was not enough, there are "HUGE" buildings each hosting nothing less than 2000 employees. These are huge multinationals like IBM, Oracle, Bharti and such. With so many people coming to work in these offices, there definately will be a traffic problem when they all travel at the same time. But the government seems to have lost its civic sense and has started allocating more and more space to other much BIGGER buildings to be constructed on this cramped up road. I was shocked to see the monstrous Covansys buildings. Its so huge, it looks like a townships with atleast 10 HUGE buildings !!! They definately can accommodate close to 50K people. With the traffic already reaching such alarming state, I wonder how this poor road will be able to handle another 50K people tredding on it.
Whats happening to the government here ? Dont they see this road being misused ? All IT companies in the same road. What logic is that ? I can understand if these were some diamond companies which would need them all to be near the quarries. Why cant they have these companies moved to another location ? Cant they stop allowing new buildings to be constructed on this road ? There is just no way the road can be expanded. Which means there is a limit to the number of vehicles it can handle, and seeing the number of vehicles there, I am pretty sure that it has already crossed this limit. But, as has been the case always .. all governments are only "reactive" .. they wait for a calamity to happen to fix the problems .. "proactive" solutions are just meant to be read in the books ...
The reception was great and we had a very lavish dinner. Reaching the hall from M.G.Road was one horrendous experience though. I had only heard about this pathetic traffic jams on the Bannerghatta road around the Dairy circle. But this was the first time that I had the privilege of being stuck up in this killer traffic on my bike. There were only 3 occassions which lasted for miniscule seconds, that my bike was on third and fourth gear in the total 6 km stretch that took me 30 minutes to cover !!! That was some ride ....
The road is so narrow that hardly 2 cars can go side by side, and you find 3 cars fighting to get ahead along with some very rashly driven busses. And ofcourse, you will find bikes almost in any place where there is a little bit of space available. It looks like as if all the people living in Bannerghatta road had to go to the center of the city for work and are returning back to their homes at the same time. There are plenty of shops on this road, including granite shops to hardware shops to bakeries and almost anything needed is available. Its a messy market place that doesnt help the traffic at all.
As if this was not enough, there are "HUGE" buildings each hosting nothing less than 2000 employees. These are huge multinationals like IBM, Oracle, Bharti and such. With so many people coming to work in these offices, there definately will be a traffic problem when they all travel at the same time. But the government seems to have lost its civic sense and has started allocating more and more space to other much BIGGER buildings to be constructed on this cramped up road. I was shocked to see the monstrous Covansys buildings. Its so huge, it looks like a townships with atleast 10 HUGE buildings !!! They definately can accommodate close to 50K people. With the traffic already reaching such alarming state, I wonder how this poor road will be able to handle another 50K people tredding on it.
Whats happening to the government here ? Dont they see this road being misused ? All IT companies in the same road. What logic is that ? I can understand if these were some diamond companies which would need them all to be near the quarries. Why cant they have these companies moved to another location ? Cant they stop allowing new buildings to be constructed on this road ? There is just no way the road can be expanded. Which means there is a limit to the number of vehicles it can handle, and seeing the number of vehicles there, I am pretty sure that it has already crossed this limit. But, as has been the case always .. all governments are only "reactive" .. they wait for a calamity to happen to fix the problems .. "proactive" solutions are just meant to be read in the books ...
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ReplyDeletewell said..we indians have this habit of being reactive...at this rate, nobody will want to live in bangalore anymore..maybe it's good news for bangalore...:P
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