tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523224.post1692343758447961230..comments2023-10-26T17:15:40.259+05:30Comments on Clipboard Conversations: Dead Right, PuneJ Ramanandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03700969855424872769noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523224.post-87772596438375074012012-02-04T18:36:20.838+05:302012-02-04T18:36:20.838+05:30Yash: whatever be the emergency, if you break the ...Yash: whatever be the emergency, if you break the rule, you've got to take the potential consequences.J Ramanandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03700969855424872769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523224.post-21556521619414060472012-02-03T11:30:26.148+05:302012-02-03T11:30:26.148+05:30@yes marathe
Ans: Brillo
(Ref my comment above)@yes marathe<br /><br />Ans: Brillo<br /><br />(Ref my comment above)Vcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12412882722530046393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523224.post-55826001250877333312012-02-02T23:20:03.354+05:302012-02-02T23:20:03.354+05:30A confession:
A few years ago while turning off A...A confession:<br /><br />A few years ago while turning off Apte Road past Santosh Bakery, a guy on a motorbike (obviously in a hurry) took the wrong side of the divider. I didn't let him merge and he crashed into an oncoming car.<br /><br />What the verdict?Yash Marathehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07232867191040778189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523224.post-68878778860104160322012-01-31T12:59:51.611+05:302012-01-31T12:59:51.611+05:30Sridhar: I understand the sentiment :) The entitle...Sridhar: I understand the sentiment :) The entitlement of motorists is further fed by traffic designs that promote one-ways, flyovers etc. with no complementary facilities for pedestrians or cyclists. So you now have vehicles that can easily go beyond 60 kmph in roads that encourage that very behaviour.J Ramanandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03700969855424872769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523224.post-40209198714770609512012-01-31T12:55:04.695+05:302012-01-31T12:55:04.695+05:30This issue is prevalent all across the country, I ...This issue is prevalent all across the country, I guess. Definitely in Bangalore.<br /><br />There is this huge sense of entitlement that the motorists have with respect to the road. Any person/vehicle in their way should give way to them. The bigger/faster their mode of transport, more is the arrogance.<br /><br />As a pedestrian or cyclist, I am constantly hounded by them. Of course, I have got into enough fights with all kinds of people.<br /><br />I really wish I could just take a stone or a stick and break their vehicles and bodies. Sigh.Sridhar Ramanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06420308313634589969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523224.post-77050000403267353602012-01-30T13:41:54.043+05:302012-01-30T13:41:54.043+05:30VCat: not sure whether to laugh or cry (both I gue...VCat: not sure whether to laugh or cry (both I guess)<br /><br />Snehal: true, they have a tough job, and reputation isn't kind to them either<br /><br />Preeti: It's becoming almost like the casualty count of Mumbai locals. Everyone knows that it happens, and has accepted it into our daily fabric. Death has lost its sting.<br /><br />Dunbar: I wish people would see these less as 'rules' but more as 'safety conventions' that increase our chances of survival.J Ramanandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03700969855424872769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523224.post-2016845483232520412012-01-30T10:06:19.380+05:302012-01-30T10:06:19.380+05:301. Not just Pune
2. Its now a part of our culture ...1. Not just Pune<br />2. Its now a part of our culture - blaming accidents to "fate"<br />3. Lack of discipline (again, as a culture - not just on roads)<br />4. We do not realise its not our father's (or father-in-law's) road. Its a public place & rules HAVE to be followed<br />5. Solution? I bet (or rather "hope") there's a way to change our attitude / culture about this (as with corruption). I just don't know it yet.<br /><br />- DunbarAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523224.post-53777280273540238202012-01-26T10:34:07.095+05:302012-01-26T10:34:07.095+05:30And then there is the anxiety that makes you wake ...And then there is the anxiety that makes you wake up in the middle of the night to urgently dial the numbers of your loved ones. Only to make sure that they have reached office or home safely. How many times have I been yelled at to not panic needlessly and disturb them in the middle of their work days, but knowing the dangers and living so far away from home, I have no other way to deal with my fears. I know that even if you are a careful driver, others around you are not. So, it is useless telling me that you drive slowly and follow all rules. I lost a brilliant classmate a few years ago to a rash truck driver. All I could do was eulogise about her in print. This time around a neighbor was hit by a car and passed away a day before I was to leave Pune. Last time, I saw a pedestrian - all life snuffed out of him at the side of a road. Perhaps, we are too many for anybody to care about how they should drive; it is just another life after all. Until one day it might just hit too close home to make someone mend their ways. If they are alive that is. What a sad way of learning a lesson.preetihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07461075411787804218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523224.post-33346404972847651502012-01-25T18:52:45.091+05:302012-01-25T18:52:45.091+05:30How true. I feel I need anger management classes e...How true. I feel I need anger management classes every time I reach work / home. I re-run wishful images in my mind of cursing/ yelling / even slapping people who made my travel a hell.<br />Having said that, my heart goes out for the traffic cops (inept as they are) - whom I think risk their lives every single day amidst this raging traffic and pollution. I wish they lose temper someday and thrash the hell out of people breaking traffic rules. (actual / real)traffic rules that is..snehalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05424472675257755663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523224.post-57942725390946801742012-01-25T16:20:49.433+05:302012-01-25T16:20:49.433+05:30Speaking for myself, I should say 'they', ...Speaking for myself, I should say 'they', 'them', 'those' and not 'we'. It can't be 'we', when I never travel that way.<br /><br />Among several delightful incidents I was witness to last year:<br /><br />Scooter rider jumped a red light and was KO'd by a crossing mini-van.<br /><br />Biker riding with 2 others, and on her phone crashed hard into a car coming the other way - that driver on the phone.<br /><br />Pompous woman who had parked in the middle of N.Main Rd for an errand, had her car rammed brilliantly by a truck with poor/no brakes.<br /><br />Most gratifying. <br /><br />(Sure they didn't learn a thing.)Vcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12412882722530046393noreply@blogger.com