Traffic in Bangalore is nightmarish. When will it improve?
Improve?? One instance.... At one of the busy junctions where four roads meet – what the hell, I am talking about the junction of M G Road and Kasturba Road - there is the ubiquitous signal. Pedestrians get the green signal for all of 15 seconds every three minutes. And the moment the pedestrian signal turns green, the vehicles start moving, not waiting for their turn. There might be a few conscientious souls prepared to wait out the 15 seconds. But then, at this point, the police constable, otherwise just an eyewitness, turns activist and urges, even forces, the vehicles to move! I have seen him get agitated, and almost physical, when someone refuses to go through a red light.
Bangalore makes a dozen mega traffic management plans every year, but with such souls directing traffic is it any wonder that nothing improves on the city’s roads?
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