{mosimage}On a Chennai road who is most dangerous? Autorickshaws? You come closer... Second choice... Shuttle cab drivers... you got still more closer.. take one more guess... Cyclists? Yeah! The cyclists form the dangerous co-passenger in Chennai roads. Please my intention is not to look down the people of lower strata who can't afford bikes / cars, but my anger towards the cyclists and the pedestrians is that they are above the road rules, causing inconvenience to the majority of travellers. Cyclists are lucky in the aspect that they don't follow the signals, can barge in any traffic stream and still get away with the sympathy of the onlookers, leaving the motorists high and dry. Well.. I am peeved with the attitude of our people that they don't need to follow rules just because they can't afford motorcycles. Whereas the people with high end SUVs again don't feel like respecting the road rules and signals just because they are rich and above the law.
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To make things worse further, this rain had added more woes even in daily commutation to office. Those roads were fine like new but can't withstand even one single rain. So much money the contractors & PWD officials had put in their packets that even the rural mud roads were fine when compared to this poor state of State Capital's roads.Last rain season I was working in a company in Ascendas IT Park, so I travelled through that Raj Bhavan road and OMR, which was quite good. So I didn't have much tension than traffic jams, but this year my office is in Nungambakkam and I am having a very tough time in swimming through the big pool of water. Also the crowd and its unruly behaviours make my blood pressure pump up and high every day I commute to office. Infact these days other than travelling to office I don't dare to take my vehicle out to road.
The problem here I believe is not only the narrow and poor roads which form the 50% problem, but the kind of people who predominantly form the driver chunks. The shuttle drivers who speed on the roads, auto drivers (whom I hate to the core), the not so educated drivers who drive rash to impress their bosses by taking them to destinations quickly at the cost of traffic rules and late starters who doesn't mind disturbing the co-passengers form the majority of an average traffic. These crop is incapabale of thinking for public convenience but only about themselves. Not only these people, almost 99.99999% of Chennai-ites are like that only.
{mosimage}Another community I hate is the car dirving people. In the congested road they will further aggrevate the problem. Even if they know that they can't move further on the available gap, where two wheelers can easily pass by, these pride owners will try to fit into that gap thus not letting anybody else. "If I can't go, nobody else shud go' seems to be ther motto. The lack of lanes & discipline makes them behave so. Next comes the honkers.... I hate people who keep on honking on the crowdy traffic jam, even they know that honking couldn't do anything constructively.
{mosimage}I feel I suffer from anachronism. I am misfit for this city's attitude and this time period's values. I long for calm, peace and a disciplined life. But this is a competitive world that thrives on cut throat competition and materialistic attitude. Even commuting to office is like going to a warfront everyday and my blood pressure just shoots up at the sheer indifference people have for others. For this very reason I want to relocate to some abroad countries where I can be at peace. I am neither patriotic to worry about brain drain, other jingoistic sentiments nor too much emotionally bound here in India. Since I am not that much ambitious, all I need is a simple, calm life where people with my wavelength can form my world.
For the past 2-3 days I am sincerely praying to God that He free me from this uncouth city and people by helping me to move abroad. Certainly money is not the criteria for me to move out of Chennai / India, but in look out for a simple daily life. If I can find peace at outside the office, then I can definitely derive the strength to withstand the pressure in an office. Oh God Almighty! Please help me in moving out of this Chennai and India to some good country... Chennai is unfit for humans and India is becoming too crowdy with apathy
{oshits} readers for my outcry against rude Chennai travellers...
The problem here I believe is not only the narrow and poor roads which form the 50% problem, but the kind of people who predominantly form the driver chunks. The shuttle drivers who speed on the roads, auto drivers (whom I hate to the core), the not so educated drivers who drive rash to impress their bosses by taking them to destinations quickly at the cost of traffic rules and late starters who doesn't mind disturbing the co-passengers form the majority of an average traffic. These crop is incapabale of thinking for public convenience but only about themselves. Not only these people, almost 99.99999% of Chennai-ites are like that only.
{mosimage}Another community I hate is the car dirving people. In the congested road they will further aggrevate the problem. Even if they know that they can't move further on the available gap, where two wheelers can easily pass by, these pride owners will try to fit into that gap thus not letting anybody else. "If I can't go, nobody else shud go' seems to be ther motto. The lack of lanes & discipline makes them behave so. Next comes the honkers.... I hate people who keep on honking on the crowdy traffic jam, even they know that honking couldn't do anything constructively.
{mosimage}I feel I suffer from anachronism. I am misfit for this city's attitude and this time period's values. I long for calm, peace and a disciplined life. But this is a competitive world that thrives on cut throat competition and materialistic attitude. Even commuting to office is like going to a warfront everyday and my blood pressure just shoots up at the sheer indifference people have for others. For this very reason I want to relocate to some abroad countries where I can be at peace. I am neither patriotic to worry about brain drain, other jingoistic sentiments nor too much emotionally bound here in India. Since I am not that much ambitious, all I need is a simple, calm life where people with my wavelength can form my world.
For the past 2-3 days I am sincerely praying to God that He free me from this uncouth city and people by helping me to move abroad. Certainly money is not the criteria for me to move out of Chennai / India, but in look out for a simple daily life. If I can find peace at outside the office, then I can definitely derive the strength to withstand the pressure in an office. Oh God Almighty! Please help me in moving out of this Chennai and India to some good country... Chennai is unfit for humans and India is becoming too crowdy with apathy
{oshits} readers for my outcry against rude Chennai travellers...
