Carpooling in Bangalore
Carpooling in Bangalore and problem of traffic
How to Make Use of Time While Driving in Bangalore !!
I am a reluctant car driver living in Bangalore, India. Never loved driving or going on a long drive, prefer if it being driven by a friend and me enjoying the ride looking out, probably helping with directions (very bad at it though :-)). I have been driving on and off from 2009 and in these years I would not have clocked more than 15K KMs mileage. That makes it an average of under 2K/year which is not a lot….
Can we add revenue and improve traffic?
As per website of Bangalore Traffic Police there are around 336 junctions across Bangalore City. I am assuming among these atleast 200 would have signal. Let’s also assume that each of these works only between 9 AM in the morning until 9PM in the night which is 12 hours in a day. Now in order to make calculations easier, the signals are set for 120 seconds and each of these signals are four ways. On an average during these 120…
What can you learn from Bangalore Traffic?
Typical weekday traffic during the peak hours 8-11 in morning and 5-8 in the evening in Bangalore is normally bumper to bumper and if you are driving a four wheeler you may not need to change gears and stick to the first one itself. I take outer ring road which has become congested even after so many flyovers constructed in last four-five years but probably due to burgeoning IT companies on this road as well a many apartment complexes the…
The Rime of the Modern Biker
The Rime of the Modern Biker (Biker here is the cyclist not any fancy Harley or the Bullet which is made like a gun). I know that The Rime of The Ancient Mariner is the longest lyrical ballad written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge which is actually a masterpiece. I am no poet to even try my hands at that so I stick to normal prose and ask people to please be tolerant 🙂 Let me be very frank…