Pune's also being dug as if in preparation for a mass burial. The Bombay Pune road once you enter the city stalls your travel plans. It takes you close to 45 mins to finally enter the city. The reasons that have been given are that Pune's following Mumbai by building flyovers.Quite a pitiful sight!
I completely Agree with the author. very thought provacative artcle indeed. Our governaments are for the poor and formers( as per their claim). So no body wants to take care of urban people (according to them all city people are elites). We are dying of hypertention stress due to traffic congession everywhere in the city, nobody wants to listen.The need of the hour is fill up the pot holes, it does not cost much but no authority has political will. Any way I am planning to form yahoo group for the people who travel to ITPL for solving marathalli junction problem. Please mail me your e-mail id's to prapancha@rediffmail.com. Later we can fight for this cause together.
Though being a Mumbaite, I have stayed in Bangalore for 4 years, and continue to have touch with my friends in that city. And I continuously hear horror stories - traffic congestion, pollution. The weather has changed a lot - it is now as hot as Mumbai.
It's a pity that, for all the promotions the state is doing for Bangalore as an IT city, it is not investing the money into improving the infrastructure of the city. Hope sense prevails soon, before it's too late.
When Bangalore is growing at such a rapid pace with many of MNC's setting up their shops here.....the governement should wake up & put forth the favourable policies building the right kind of infrastructure to handle such a rapid growth. They can take cues from across the worls where cities grew at a rapid pace but infrastructure was never left behind. The government is worried to the fact that the last KRISHNA governements too much atention to Bangalore cost him the elections but not true fully. Krishna also chose to ignore other parts of the state concentrating only on Bangalore. The governement can definitely stirke a balance & develop all corners of the state...It just needs the right kind of executives & the governement agenda. But with Congress & JDS sharing the power in the state......the problem for bangalore & also for Karnataka are far seem to be over.
Sir, While Delhi,Mumbai and Bangalore get written about not many bother to look at Chennai which is also bursting at the seams. Also there is not even a project from the State Govt. to build any flyovers leave alone to get them delayed. Plenty of fuel wasted and heavy pollution.
The article is trying to be kind to Bangalore and its citizens. There is absolutely no Accountability from the Government side which allows for such delays as the Indiranagar flyover and apathy from the citizens. An occassional protest does not do much except hog media space. The citizens are equally to be blamed for the traffic jams because everyone wants to get there first.They come from every opening possible making themselves and others also late. As for the traffic cops though they try hard have left the traffic to its fate. Pollution is increasing but political will is not there.
I am not sure how can you compare mumbai and bangalore. State of infrastructure on a relative basis is far better than in bangalore. In mumbai you can travel almost a minute per km. In bangalore it takes 2 hrs to travel 20 kms
Also mumbai people are much more aware,active,disciplined in public and have better civic sense. Can you even compare Bangalore's city bus service to BEST? Or traffic sense of Bangaloreans to Mumbaikars?? You dont need to pull some other city down just to show that bangalore is "Not Crumbling".
It is only a matter of time that Bangalore will start declining. When that happens those responsible for it are the politicians and the bukilders and developers.
i stongly agree with the writer and believe it is high time for not only the the authorities but bangloreans to look into this matter before it becomes impossible to solve the issue.
