If there's one place that beats every other place in traffic chaos, it's dfinitely powai. people have to literally wait for hours just to cross a strech of less than a km. There is so much of fuel wasted on a daily basis.Compounding to the traffic is the presence of big trailers and trucks. Why cant the government ban the entry of huge trailer and truckers during peak hours. It is dome in south bombay.why not suburban bombay as well?
Mumbai is famous for everything especially for its evil traffic conditions during these monsoon days & Adi Sankaracharya Marg(Powai)is the worst affected.For a 15 min journey it takes around 2 hrs & if there is any vehicle breakdown it becomes a memorable day in ones life i mean the worst nightmare that commuter of this route are experiencing since this Vik-Jog link Rd is under development assisted by World Bank Project.I wonder the loss of time & energy(fuel) that it is causing in this evereday's fuel price hiking market. I hope Concern Authority is doing its best for timely completion of V-J Link RD project,if not they should be serious by now considering inflation rate & incessant hike in fuel prices.
There are places and wide conjestion free roads elsewhere in india itself.why don't you guys take a review about your career and life and think of relocating to such places .Or atleast take tour to such places and take a look at how ur life would be in the years to come over there For ages we seem to have been fuming about the inefficiencies of the people in power.Neither they seem to change nor do we.Let us change first then let us expect others to change
It happens only in Mumbai: 2 hours to cover 20 km!??? .... It also does happen in Chennai and Bangalore.....As far as traffic is concerned,chennai,bangalore and mumbai,all 3 are equally worse..
RE:happens only in mumbai??????
by SaiSubramanyam Thoota on Jul 04, 2008 04:00 PM Permalink
You forgot Hyderabad... Chennai's traffic is comparitively better man...
RE:happens only in mumbai??????
by bala subramaniam on Jul 04, 2008 05:00 PM Permalink
U r right Mr.Sai
Chennai traffic is 100% better than anyother city....for every main road u can cross the traffic jams using alternate streets........and a good police assiting the traffic in the peak hours.............should be lucky to live chennai than any other cities
Roads in DElhi are quite good. BMC should cancell all contarcts given to existing road contractors and give it to the ones who made Delhi roads. But it will not happen as BMC waants to make crores every year by way of bribes and conditions on roads will remain like this only. People in Mumbai travels like hell be it on road or in trains.
Mumbai is the City which never sleeps.....is bound to have such traffic jams...acceptable...please do not call it horror story.....no one foreces you to come and stay in Mumbai....
RE:City that never sleeps............
by prasanna pai on Jul 04, 2008 03:58 PM Permalink
Infact Mumbai is made Horror story by unchecked migration for job. They added to wealth of Mumbai but city has turnd insensitive and unhelpful.
It is better to privatise the traffic immediately without wasteing time. Current traffic police are not able to handle the mumbai traffic.Unskilled, Irresponsible. Only for collecting money.
RE:Better to privatise the traffic
by jaideep shirali on Jul 04, 2008 04:14 PM Permalink
Maybe the police are not good.But it is not easy to stand in the midst of exhaust fumes all the time. Neither is it easy to discipline motorists who believe that you should jump a red light when the cop is not looking, does not matter whether you kill yourself and some innocent guy in an accident as a result. Mumbai cops are better than most I have seen elsewhere.
RE:Better to privatise the traffic
by shashank bhandari on Jul 04, 2008 03:51 PM Permalink
Dude please mention correctly not for collecting money, but for colecting bribe
RE:off topic but needs an attention too.
by mpc on Jul 04, 2008 08:50 PM Permalink
Agree with you except that traffic signals on flyovers are not unheard of.....
In the last 6 months....roads are the same...traffic has increased multi-fold....so what does the Govt do...build more flyovers, which take a min of 2.5 to complete....the airport flyover is a disaster....why cant they set a target for completion? I travel to Nariman Pt every day by road....first I used to drive, then in sheer exhaustion, I kept a driver........now the driver is also exhausted along with me, and I pay him for that!! I used to take the dockyard road, which used to be a 1 hr flat drive, only 6 months ago to N Pt, now it takes me at an average of 1.5 hrs...and on the way back....2hrs min!!! And I dont live is Pune....I am just off Ghatkopar!!
RE:RE:6 month mayhem
by prasanna pai on Jul 04, 2008 04:01 PM Permalink
Sir ,why dont you pls use Public transportation like railways. It would hardlky take few minute for you to reach CST. fOR SUCH A SHORT TRAVEL YOU ALL ARE USING PRIVATE VEHICLE ..AND LATER BLAMING CITY AND ITS SYSTEM .ok it is no good but then you are adding on to it as well.
