Can you picture this scene...
You are driving down a straight road and all of a sudden out of nowhere there is a bump on the road that tosses you up a foot in the air, or you are having a pleasant drive and all of a sudden your vehicle goes into a pothole.
If you know this feeling you live somewhere in India... Read on if you don't and you may figure out how it its to ride a bike or drive a car in this country... I'm not even talking about the extreme cases like Bangalore... I'm talking about my home town of Chennai...
It's 8.30 am , and as usual I'm all set for my expedition to work.. A bag on my back, iPod in my ears, Access card in my pocket and 17 km of travel ahead of me.. It is actually such a pleasant ride if there isn't much traffic(Which hardly ever happens)... Riding down this road at around 60kmph, usually not an issue, suddenly I find a traffic jam... And would you believe it, all because, some one from some municipal agency dug up the road and left a ditch right across it. All because of this little ditch.. there is a traffic jam that ruins your day.. Even better is the Poonamalle High Road.. It's a brilliant road, considering it's a National Highway that happens to run through the city it better be, some genius engineer thought that a rubber tar mixture that they use abroad would work in India, all it has resulted in is a roller coaster ride that you can leave your footprints in if you stay there too long, Seriously, ask any Chennaite and you will get one reply, We have fantastic roads, but, they are full of bumps or potholes..
Ever wondered for a second, if our roads with no further change in the size or the quality of the tar was deviod of potholes and bumps how much relief there would be in the traffic situation of the city...
A Bump and A Ditch.. Two small miscreants who can bring the entire working community in the city to a standstill...
:-D..... I've vented my steam and now I expect everyone who reads this blog to do the same in the comments or atleast in your own blogs........
Rahul..
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