Bangalore Bandh...and while the rest of India goes about its routine, here we are sweetly tucked in inside our homes ruminating this midweek island of a holiday. 1 day of work behind, 2 days of work ahead and then suddenly weekend ahoy...
So what is the Bangalore set up to, let me guess.
Category A - Like me, churning out intellectual stuff, catching up on fiction, DVDs and friends perhaps
Category B - Life as usual, kids below 3, grandparents, househelps, social set, only busier because, the workers are at home.
Category C - Work still it is, like time tested midnight oil burning techniques to catapult you to exalted orbits of sensex, corner offices, or well.. the blase onsites.
Category D - Sleep is a soulful friend, that given the right disposition and a dollop of lethargy can be by your side at the beckoning.
As a conscious citizen.. with just the amount of lethargy that prevents greatness from closing upon me(:))..., I have some advice for all those who fall in my category. Folks lets get together somehow and lets do something for the betterment of Bangalore that all of those who do not fall into our category will delight in tomorrow. 3 options there,
1) For Electronics City users - Put up a traffic light on Bomanahalli, Begur and Singasandra junction, that is timed in proportion to the traffic in each direction. So gone will be the days when 10,000 have to wait 30 minutes and 100 have to wait for 2.
2) Lets go talk to the city planners on why do they perceive Bangalore to be a Pizza which can only be radially bissected by roads with no semblance of internal roads anywhere within the slices. Case in point, outer ring road, Hosur road, bannerghatta road, kanakapura road, all these roads cut the Southern Bangalore segment radially however within the several thousands of acres within each slice there is precious little tarring, roads or connections. It is unbelievable the amount of land wasted in such poor planning. Leading to what I will call islands within the urban sprawl..
3) Or simply sit at home and launch a portal www.onewayupdate.com (I hope that doesnt exist yet), and update all the two way road to one way conversions across the cities of the world. Bangalore if not on the top will figure close and we can well through the right Public-Private-Police partnership ensure that we can convert a few more one ways to get the top spot.
I am sure with the right intent and spirit we can setup Team Bangalore, and get things movin just a lil bit further than they are now...,well at least till the "island of holiday" comes along and me or someone in my category gets into blogspace, for lack of more mundane things to do.
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