Office Commute Rants
I tried out a new route to commute to my office today, instead of the regular Ring Road - Mysore Road - My Office path, which I have been on for more than three years now.
On occasion I had heard of an alternate route of sorts, which was not plagued by traffic woes, the likes of which prompted me to write this. But that route, I had assumed was a myth, and that even if the route did exist, it was no more than a mud road.
However, I did chance upon travelling on that road on the office bus one fine evening when there was some major flooding on Mysore Road and the entire stretch of road was blocked for a really long time. The road was pretty bad at that time, and was WIP (work in progress) so far as making it a motorable one was concerned.
In this scenario, I had made a mental note that it wasn't feasible to travel by that road, and had relegated its very existence to the back of my mind.
Until the past few days, since the start of May. There is some major renovation that is taking place at the Rajarajeshwarinagar Arch, and this has caused a traffic bottleneck and the wait time has increased so much that I feel I could brush my teeth in traffic during that interim duration.
Not to mention, incidentally the fact that the moronic bike riders now are upping the ante, so far as their riding on footpaths is concerned.
That, quite possibly is a state of mayhem that I'd rather escape, and as a consequence, I decided to take the alternate route I had previously mentioned and to my surprise, I found that it was quite decent.
For some parts of the way when the road was narrow for two way traffic, the vehicles inched along at low speed, but the parts of the road that had tar on them just seemed so smooth and so devoid of traffic, that it was absolute relief, more than pleasure to be able to get to the office this way.
It won't be long before morons end up taking this route to the office, and honking with their wolf horns and erratic riding shall disrupt normal traffic to make regular peoples' lives miserable. That day is inevitable, I just hope it is stemmed for as long as is humanely possible.
On occasion I had heard of an alternate route of sorts, which was not plagued by traffic woes, the likes of which prompted me to write this. But that route, I had assumed was a myth, and that even if the route did exist, it was no more than a mud road.
However, I did chance upon travelling on that road on the office bus one fine evening when there was some major flooding on Mysore Road and the entire stretch of road was blocked for a really long time. The road was pretty bad at that time, and was WIP (work in progress) so far as making it a motorable one was concerned.
In this scenario, I had made a mental note that it wasn't feasible to travel by that road, and had relegated its very existence to the back of my mind.
Until the past few days, since the start of May. There is some major renovation that is taking place at the Rajarajeshwarinagar Arch, and this has caused a traffic bottleneck and the wait time has increased so much that I feel I could brush my teeth in traffic during that interim duration.
Not to mention, incidentally the fact that the moronic bike riders now are upping the ante, so far as their riding on footpaths is concerned.
That, quite possibly is a state of mayhem that I'd rather escape, and as a consequence, I decided to take the alternate route I had previously mentioned and to my surprise, I found that it was quite decent.
For some parts of the way when the road was narrow for two way traffic, the vehicles inched along at low speed, but the parts of the road that had tar on them just seemed so smooth and so devoid of traffic, that it was absolute relief, more than pleasure to be able to get to the office this way.
It won't be long before morons end up taking this route to the office, and honking with their wolf horns and erratic riding shall disrupt normal traffic to make regular peoples' lives miserable. That day is inevitable, I just hope it is stemmed for as long as is humanely possible.