— Kiran Jonnalagadda’s Blog

Monday, December 1, 2003

It bothers me so to see Bangalore bursting at the seams. But what can be done? The city's fate is an unfortunate fallout of its success, and of the failure of every other place that lost people to here. I’m standing at a traffic junction waiting to be picked up, and the sight of unfinished construction brought to life in the lighting of hurried traffic, but dampened by the cold, is an unusual and unique experience.

satyap — Dec 1, 2003 2:56:44 PM — # ↩

This is not unique and unusual.

On a somewhat related note, keep this in mind: People are dipshits.
hserus — Dec 1, 2003 4:57:41 PM — # ↩

Keep in mind that Bangalore is a vastly overrated city.

Give me Hyderabad any day, or maybe Pune - still a smallish city. Still comparatively civilized and uncrowded.

Bangalore sucks bad. Bombay sucks the worst (and the attitude of the typical "mumbaikar" about how no other city is as good as mumbai is) sucks even more.

This, from a typical hyderabadi who thinks no other city is as good as hyderabad, and is suffering prolonged withdrawal symptoms from lack of irani chai and real hyderabadi biryani :)
- mannu — Dec 1, 2003 5:20:25 PM — # ↩
  
  Ya, actually, there's no point in comparing cities.
  
  Mumbai is the best anyday ;-PP ;-))
  
  LOL!
  
  PS: Honestly though, I think Mumbai sucks! I'm beginning to think of Pune as my ideal place, after I passed it on my last trip to Mumbai.
- satyap — Dec 1, 2003 7:42:37 PM — # ↩
  
  Pune is uncrowded and civilized? Comparitively, sure.
bijoyv — Dec 1, 2003 5:09:41 PM — # ↩

You summed up in one paragraph an entire conversation I had on a airplane last night, which continued into an autorickshaw this afternoon, and a cab this evening. In Mumbai. With different people.
ravi — Dec 1, 2003 5:29:22 PM — # ↩

I guess that's what you get in the Toronto:Canada, or New York City:USA ... and Bangalore:India ...

Clearly you haven't spent much time in Madras, if you think Bangalore-traffic is "hurried traffic" ...
tsk1979 — Dec 2, 2003 2:19:39 AM — # ↩

Simple solution
Go the delhi way. Delhi used to be a nightmare(still is) but things have improved a lot. Of course CNG is partially responsible but the other factor is that the IT industry, the swanky malls the multiplexes have all moved to Gurgaon and to some extent NOIDA. These suburbs are 20-30Km drive on the 6 lane ring road from DELHI. People who live in DLF(gurgaon) etc., need to go to delhi only when they have to go to the airport(which is quite near) or the Railway Station(Nightmare).
Of course delhi as a city has been screwed up quite a bit. But bangalore hasnt reached the stage where delhi had been 5-6 years back, so there is a lot of scope for improvement. Imagine no signal from whitefield to Trinity circle, all in flyovers, then living as far as the bellandur TANK, or 10 kms away on Sarjapur road or near HOSUR wont be much of a problem. Just move out, stay in a satellite town with its own self sustaining ecosystem, and come to the city just to catch the train!
contentedbloke — Dec 2, 2003 2:43:44 AM — # ↩

I had just gone to Bangalore for the weekend - one immediate and apparent reason I could see for this over crowding was the huge number of multi-storied apartment complexes (with more than 300 apts) without a commensurate increase in infrastructure such as roads. This has resulted in facilitating a large percentage of immigrant population to move in and increase the density - and generally create havoc for all!

My two cents! :)
Anonymous — Dec 2, 2003 12:21:11 PM — # ↩

Mumbai sucks...Bangalore is anytime better than Mum. -Premshree
bluesmoon — Dec 2, 2003 3:02:25 PM — # ↩

the first thing that hit me when I got out of the airport was the smell. the stench of the pollution. I don't get that in Mumbai, but then, I'm probably accustomed to the smell of Mumbai.