Misadventures in a'port and traffic commotion by Puneet Rajhans

Misadventures in Airport and traffic commotion

Hadn't we had enough traffic triggered misadventures in the past, there was another declaration coming from a traffic personnel on the voluminous growth that this sector is going to witness in the days to come.
The man could barely hide his glee when he prophesied that there would be 200 to 300 per cent growth in the traffic going towards a'port and adjoining areas once much-publicised and least effective Terminal 3 opens up in entirety. The terminal has been built by GMR Group, the one that has laid one of the best roads in the country, effectively from the outskirts of Hy'bad to the closest point near Kurnool. This stretch makes it possible to cover H'bad- TPT length in just under nine hrs.

The senseless declaration coming on a channel and that too when the flow of traffic towards G'gaon and International Terminal is no less. THere is an entire tribe which doesn't mind the traffic growth maintaining a robust movement (the toll collection centres doubling up as hafta vasool goons) ; something of this mindless trajectory that one can associate with Sensex alone. Here you have this wayward movement of 30 point share index soliciting new eyeballs every day as if all other activities don't hand out handsome returns. The rally in the market; how it is going to fare in the next week, next month and even next season (bordering between hope and despair); to rally being played out with untamed conviction if one particular week has been strong resembles a ritual that is repeated shamelessly year after year.
The sensex is best left to the greed generating community; but how is one to navigate a thought process on someone who takes pride in traffic reaching new heights. Probably the traffic champion has had a date with a soothsayer in his childhood prophesying that when he grows up there would be fleet of cars in his vicinity. That childhood element he can't shake off easily.
Much fault is traced to a series of reports carried out every month detailing the sale of vehicles of different make. Here again the rally sentiments take centrestage. The traffic dislocated tribe would surely like a moratorium on such reports.You know it well that won't happen.
The sarcastic campaign that shows India taking pride in overtaking China in population game by 2030 could well see an appropriate extension of India displacing China when it came to vehicles from two to four wheelers well after 2030. Is the traffic afficionado basing his thoughts towards that end? Try public transport as very few of us have traffic sense and traffic concerns on our mind.