I spent half my life in India, and the last few years in the US. My experience is that people in the US are on the average no smarter, nor more hard working than people in India. But they are more involved. If something like what happened with the airport flyover happened here it would be all over the news, and people would be forced to do something to fix it. It is encouraging that people in Bangalore have the same attitude. Instead of complaining, if ordinary people actually try and do something, then only there will be progress.
In America there is a saying: "If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem".
atlast somebody is there from media to comment on bangalore's infrastructure... today media can cover from Dog's getting married to another Dog to Dog's death at some remote village but somehow they are not bothered to use their power to put pressure on politicians atleast to improve all these things... they can show and create all kind of controvesies over Advani's speech but they are not bothered to show proper report on the pathetic infrastructure of bangalore which is affecting every single person living here in someway... everybody knows who all are responsible for that.. bangaloreans are paying so much tax but not a single channel show where those money goes...
There are few things which do not happen in India and I fail to understand why! In the great USA for which Bangalore has become the IT backyard , many a roads are made by private companies and there are semi automatic toll collection gates. The secret for success I understand is looking at a Problem as an Opportunity. The Judiciary should help private people to getting control fast. I can bet my Shirt August 2006 will not be met by BDA
I think the author comparing Mumbai's to Bangalore's is not worth as Mumbai is far much better. Mumbai has good clear highways and flyovers which avoid loads of signals and at times I have driven inside the city almost above 80kms which no one can expect in city like Bangalore. I agree that internals to each place in Mumbai there is similar problem as in Bangalore but drivers in bangalore do not follow proper lane discipline and are always on creating loud sound from their car/biks/auto's,etc. There are good broader roads in bangalore which are one way but no one follows lanes. I do agree that there should be good flyovers in bangalore which would avoid most of the signals and commutation will be faster.
In Mumbai it takes me 15 to 20 mints to drive 12 to 14 kms on an average but it takes 15 to 20 mints to drive 4 to 5 kms in bangalore.
Bangalore needs to have good driving sense , flyovers and drivers should avoid using horns as much as possible.
Not only it is the story of Bangalore but every city of the country- a failure of Nehuruvian model of economy-a haphazard migration from rural Bharat to urban India.
Gandhian model of village development should have been taken/should be taken and equitable distribution of national assets as well as investment should be planned otherwise India will shine and Bharat will weep. Many more Bangalores will come up but not the B'lore one used to think or Chandigarh.. Dr. Dhanakar Thakur D-5, Shyamali,Ranchi 834002, tel.o651-2411278 dhanakarthakur@rediffmail.com
Re: Banglore crumbling
by Dr Thakur on Mar 31, 2009 01:46 PM Permalink
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its high time people stop blaming the government and lack of infrastructure. how many of these high fi CEO's travel in public transport,every one wants his own luxurury car which adds up to the already exsisting traffic chaos.lets come to reality and think about reducing the number of vehicles as it is impossible to enhance the infrastructure.the author herself mentioned that she and another person going to the same place were using two cars which itself shows the lack of effort from the people.my advice is we should do our bit before we blame the government and infrastructure.
I agree with the author with his views. It is people who are keeping bangalore alive.where else would you see parochialism to its bare minimum other than in bangalore.& blore does not have a language problem.everyone in india wants to be a bangalorean!! inspite of the fact the real blorean cannot have a roof of his own coz the outsiders outbid every bit of land available.
I remember the development of Surat from a disasterous city to India's cleanest city in a year. It was a joint effort by different companies and the municipal corporation. The article compares bangalore with mumbai for the traffic. In my opinion, both the cities are facing similar traffic problems but the people at both these places. People are more responsible in Mumbai for such issues. In Bangalore, it is very difficult for pedestrians to cross the roads. People dont want to follow traffic rules. Most of the newly constructed buildings are illegal and there is no space for wind to flow. Roads are not well constructed adding to more traffic congestion. Its the people who has to have better understanding here in bangalore. The government comes next.
