Recently, I had been to my native place in South Gujarat and was shocked to see perfect, pothole-free, thick Asphalt roads running acroos miles right upto the village interiors. Now, that's why industrialists find more prospects in states other than in Maharashtra. One can judge the corruption level of the city by the condition of the roads. The roads are levelled ever year and within days, they develop cracks again because material quality in inferior, Govt. supervision is missing and often tenders are issued to agencies who do not have sufficent machines and manpower. Result, the work goes on for months and years! Traffic is affected and general public is made to suffer. That's exactly why business is slowly moving out of Maharashtra. Infrastructure is far better in other states. Jago neta, jago!
YEH HAI MUMBAI MERI JAAN STILL WE LIVE IN THIS SHIT, BUT HAVE TO BLAME OUR SELF FOR IT, POLITICIAN ARE HERE TO MAKE MONEY IN OUR SO CALLED DEMOCRACY CANT WE UNDERSTAND THIS
There is simply no escape!! The torture story continues. Adding to the chaos is my most hated project now, the airport flyover. The contractor seems to be taking its own merry time and we are left to die in chaos. Arey Bhai, traffic management naam ki koi cheez hi nahin hai. Our Pandu Hawaldars are efficiently working at the busy junction slapping fine and making good money, but no one thinks of managing the traffic smoothly. When they started the flyover project, they could have alternatively widened the adjacent roads by encroaching footpaths or diverted traffic through nearby roads to distribute load. But who cares for us? After all we the mumbaikar is brainwashed by the media and Politicians for handling the worst come worst situations (like the 26th July flood, the train blast etc..) so that we could earn and keep the financial capital churning out more and more money. But ultimately suffer for the bad quality of life we live now. I think I have said enough and am too bored to talk about the potholes which are the cause of cheap quality of work done by contractors. Maybe it time we the Mumbaikars start our own movement and let them know what we need and when instead of getting ADDICTED TO CHAOS.
It’s WAR!!! The biggest regret I have in staying in this city called Mumbai. Traveling from Dindoshi to BKC by Bike or Car everyday drains me mentally and physically. Killing me softly day by day, I try to keep patience, but some time seem like crashing all the cars in front of me or drive a tanker instead, crushing all the cars to get rid of the chaos!! Maybe a flying car might help in future. But it is really the ultimate torture and testing of patience!! Being an urban planner student, I have always tried to think about easier ways of calming the traffic. We thought about the up gradation of public transport, namely the BRTS, which requires special dedicated lanes. But they seem to fail as Mumbaikars just wont leave the comfort of the car (Maybe they are very proud to own it or maybe it’s from the company hence kaun free ka maal chodega). Also the BRTS will further squeeze the lane creating chaos in traffic. Trains ka to chance hi nahin hai. I have promised myself never to travel again in train after being almost killed twice from the horrific crowd. Maybe we could have taken up the sky bus a bit seriously, but I don’t know why our Politicians don’t want it. They are making Metro(Finally…phew..), but what’s the point in making the east-west corridor first which will take around 3yrs and the north-south thereafter, which will take more two-three yrs!! There is simply no escape!! The torture story continues. Adding to the chaos is my most ha
continued......existance. it is only existing when it comes to collecting taxes, duties, challans and other kharcha pani's. so travelling in mumbai is no longer a horror story but it has now become a part of our life....our sufferings....god bless us and India!
Hi I reside in gharkopar and my work place is situated in andheri, so daily I have to take either the kurla-andheri 'bullshit' road or vikroli-powar-sakivihar road. Interestingly I had found out some short cuts to get myself free from the discomforts of mumbai trafic but ALAS! thanks to BMC and MMRDA we mumbaikar's have been left with too few alternatives of clean and traffic free raods, as these people have tried their best to keep mumbai roads decorated with either filths or unnecessary, incomplete constructions at crutial places scattered all over the busiest spots. so the whole travel has become so unpredictable that you never know when and how you would reach your destination. RTO officials are also playing a great helping hand to these worthless organisations. I wonder y these cops are in existence. 9 out of 10 occasions they stop the heavy trafic to let go the free flowing trafic of 10-15 vehicles letting the pile up on the busy lanes. somtimes even they allow locals to chip in this 'social' job. good example is burve nagar shivsena office sopt where everybody tries to be socialworker directing trafic in all possible way causing a chinese torture for you, the driver. I feel everybody should give up their four wheelers, public transport and pick up a bycycle to reach their homes and offices. this will not only save your time, money, mind...it will also make you healthy. We just can not expect anything from the authorities as I feel in Maharashtra the authority is not in
Mumbai had famed traffic discipline till 1975 or so.After that first BEST bus ques were wracked then of course the whole traffic system has gone to dogs. traffic police has to share equal balme with citizens. First problem with traffic police is that there has been no good leader after Dr. Pasricha who understands traffic. there is no will to discipline traffic.There is no understanding of traffic rules in both pedeterians as well as motorists. For traffic to improve we need to tighten the licencing procedure.There has to be an oral and written test as wellas a minimum qualification to obtain a driving licence. On the road,trafic rules should be strictly enforced. a)Zebra crossings should be kept free of encroachment. b)Pedesterians should not be allowed Jay walking. c)lane discipline be enforced. d) Taxis parked at or near bus stops be be penalised like private vehicles being seized from no parking zone. e) All vehicles being used for public transport should not be of more than 15 years of age. e)In Mumbai,BEST should run more A.C. buses on shorter routes like Worli to nariman point, Andheri to Ghatkopar/Kurla, Sion to mantralaya,encouraging people to trvell by public transport.Its Dahisar to mantralaya and Mulumd to V.T>(or some destination in SM) is waste of resources service.One needs a better service of A.C. buses to leave cars back home. It will not only decongest roads,but save precious fuel, too. Don't waste time on no Honking like camopaigns.Rule with
I have spent 5 hours to cover a distance of 20 kms today.. And no one had a clue as to why there was a jam on the W E Highway today.. some thought it was an accident.. otheres thought maybe there was some agitation... Some even thought maybe one of the flyovers had caved in!!
Among rumours people waited patiently.. and impatienty to clear the stretch.
But what I found as I dragged my car through the jam.. was that there really was no specific reason.. All I cud see at the bottleneck at Santacruz airport was BMC workers... trying to fill potholes.. As a result of which only 2 lanes were open to the traffic to flow.. And which had resulted in a traffic pile up All the way to Malad. Now if the authorities thought that filling potholes during office hours.. on the side where the traffic would most definitely be dense is the right way to do it.. Then God help us..
