Chaotic Bangalore!

Denizens of bangalore often complain about of city traffic and infrastructure situation . Day by day we take longer time to reach home and set new lap records (off course in terms of slowness). When we find less traffic on road we are dumbfounded!! Well , who should be blamed for this? Govt? BMC? or citizens? i feel every one has there share of blame.

First in line are corrupt Politicians , who give pseudo promises and fail to do even an Iota of work. With IT boom happening , there is no question of shortage of wealth. So , what is problem? Lack of planning and foresightedness may be one of the reason. They just try to solve by providing short term solutions forget about it. Thus they will never address real problem at all. For example there was an underpass being constructed near my place , it just the shifted the Traffic jam to few metres further down the road!. They should make an extensive study to find real cause and brainstorm for solutions. Government has to outsource this work or at least have a Public-Private partner ship. Latter symbiosis will help citizens a lot.

Secondly , i feel even citizens are also responsible. First of All , people must use Mass transport. I agree that there is no proper transport , put have people tested this? If every person in city uses a 4 Wheeler as his mode of transport , then where is the space? bangalore is becoming densely populated , thus it is difficult to expand roads. one cant imagine the state when TATA rolls out its Rs 1 lakh car!. Car will be a common man's household and thus adding oil to already burning fire. Every citizen must try to minimise his private vehicle. This will reduce Pollution , saving petrol and most importantly you are reducing burden on roads. To overcome shortage of mass transport , private firms should rope in there own vehicles and make in MANDATORY for its employees. Traffic rules also must be followed , don't blame traffic policemen , probably they are the most busiest persons in bangalore today.

Government job is not just to develop Bangalore , they have entire state as a responsibility. They have to look into develop other cities , improve state of Agriculture which is backbone of the economy of country. Bangoloreans must not treat Govt as "Bangalore Developers". On the other hand , Govt must not take this as an excuse. More responsible citizens and Accountable government can save bangalore!