Scraps Stuffs - Random musings from apun ka desh

Spent 45 minutes in traffic before reaching home last evening. It was a bloody nightmare. One BMTC bus has its axle broken on Hosur road and traffic was badly affected all along Residency road, Richmond road, etc. In addition to that roads are dug up and that narrows Bangalore's infamously narrow roads further. Add to that the one way system in place at many roads and you have a perfect recipe for road rage - which I saw in plenty and indulged in some of it myself. Not something that I'm proud of. Which brings me to the stupidity of having just 6.7 kms of the proposed Bangalore metro system underground. The rest of the 33 kms will consist of ground level and elevated sections. This will further decrease usuable road space. And judging by the speed at which things happen in Bangalore (people are laid back here and don't give a damn about how long they have to put up with nonsense) it will be atleast five years from start of construction to first operation. In that time space, there will be no usable metro and decreased usable road space. And idiots here want to make Bangalore into a Singapore :-(