Traffic on outer connaught circus (resembling B T Road Kolkata traffic) , visiting IIT Park
With a visit to Ambedkar Nagar accomplished, it was time to head towards Central Delhi. As i waited at Madangir bus stop, i could spot a red colour bus plying with no passenger and the driver busy with his cell. The speed at which the bus moved past the bus stand was not appropriate and there are effectively no checks and balances. For the motorists and car drivers, it is the twin task to keep an eye on traffic on road and the buses which have more than a normal appearance. I took the cluster bus, well there is nothing to differentiate between a DTC and a cluster bus. You never know who would come with menacing art of driving and who would showcase the perfect rhythm. There are good buses and it is not difficult to differentiate from those that come quite close.
The bus i was in went past Kotla Mubarakpur, Lodhi Road before entering Connaught Circus. The traffic and the tribulation reminded one of unfolding scenario in B T Road in Kolkata. The B T Road with its immense power to take any traffic pile up has never come out with any solution that could ease traffic movement. Just a elevated road near Dunlop is all that the traffic people have thought about. Here in outer connaught circus in national capital on any weekday the traffic that emerges from different verges is a testament to the dollops of patience one needs to deal with it. An underpass road somewhere before Barakhamba road and right till the Ajmeri Gate entry road, all on the outer connaught circus, can be a solution. But given the metro lines running beneath it, crossing at least two points, this task would call for energetic/imaginative thinking. It has been over a decade when one has had to put up with a traffic jam, not singing by any standards, and a better view comes on more than two dozen times in a year when papers are splashed with pictures taken from top on traffic snarls and the various modes of transport that are held up.
From Janpath, as one has to turn left, the traffic emerging from right side on outer circus and heading towards Paharganj, Ajmeri Gate and beyond has a long irritating tale. Only an underpass road on three fourth of outer circus can bring some relief provided the metro lines that run underneath is taken care of. Parliament street, Barakhamba Road, K G Marg and Ajmeri Gate are roads from where traffic enters and exits with no attempt to see how the roads could be decongested.
As i headed back from Central DElhi, the bus i took from INA heading towards August Kranti Marg, the number of buses that were plying suggested the need to keep the numbers in action no matter the passengers inside these buses did not add up to double digit figure. In the evening the August Kranti Marg is a challenge as far as traffic movement is concerned. Traffic gets held up as there are at least two cuts that go towards the colony. Why not have an underpass than let the roads resemble a simmering battle where the number of buses on that stretch outnumbers even the number of passengers who wish to take it in the evening. As one exits from a bus, taking pedestrian space brings the threat of stray dogs. With hours lost in the traffic, the next motto of those plying buses is to speed up and engage in risk driving. Why not shift a good proportion of buses on other roads than add to traffic woes.
When you have a challenging task of beating the traffic heat and once you tend to get over it, some appear on a short fuse and give hard times to those immigrants who have taken premises on rent and leading a life of normality. It is issues like burning fuel, driving fast and not getting the desirable salary , some who were paid handsome in the past have had to settle for a meagre blast, that leads to taking vows to get rough with those hailing from the north east and other places.
Few days later visited the IIT Park with the Sun having made an appearance in a partial way. There were fewer collection inside the ground, with the metro construction having taken more space. As unprecedented cold spell is more or less over, one can roughly hazard a guess what would a traffic-turning-to-a-litter here and a money chase there would lead to. Amidst these mixed tales meeting Suka from Nagaland was nothing less than an enterprising interaction.
With a visit to Ambedkar Nagar accomplished, it was time to head towards Central Delhi. As i waited at Madangir bus stop, i could spot a red colour bus plying with no passenger and the driver busy with his cell. The speed at which the bus moved past the bus stand was not appropriate and there are effectively no checks and balances. For the motorists and car drivers, it is the twin task to keep an eye on traffic on road and the buses which have more than a normal appearance. I took the cluster bus, well there is nothing to differentiate between a DTC and a cluster bus. You never know who would come with menacing art of driving and who would showcase the perfect rhythm. There are good buses and it is not difficult to differentiate from those that come quite close.
The bus i was in went past Kotla Mubarakpur, Lodhi Road before entering Connaught Circus. The traffic and the tribulation reminded one of unfolding scenario in B T Road in Kolkata. The B T Road with its immense power to take any traffic pile up has never come out with any solution that could ease traffic movement. Just a elevated road near Dunlop is all that the traffic people have thought about. Here in outer connaught circus in national capital on any weekday the traffic that emerges from different verges is a testament to the dollops of patience one needs to deal with it. An underpass road somewhere before Barakhamba road and right till the Ajmeri Gate entry road, all on the outer connaught circus, can be a solution. But given the metro lines running beneath it, crossing at least two points, this task would call for energetic/imaginative thinking. It has been over a decade when one has had to put up with a traffic jam, not singing by any standards, and a better view comes on more than two dozen times in a year when papers are splashed with pictures taken from top on traffic snarls and the various modes of transport that are held up.
From Janpath, as one has to turn left, the traffic emerging from right side on outer circus and heading towards Paharganj, Ajmeri Gate and beyond has a long irritating tale. Only an underpass road on three fourth of outer circus can bring some relief provided the metro lines that run underneath is taken care of. Parliament street, Barakhamba Road, K G Marg and Ajmeri Gate are roads from where traffic enters and exits with no attempt to see how the roads could be decongested.
As i headed back from Central DElhi, the bus i took from INA heading towards August Kranti Marg, the number of buses that were plying suggested the need to keep the numbers in action no matter the passengers inside these buses did not add up to double digit figure. In the evening the August Kranti Marg is a challenge as far as traffic movement is concerned. Traffic gets held up as there are at least two cuts that go towards the colony. Why not have an underpass than let the roads resemble a simmering battle where the number of buses on that stretch outnumbers even the number of passengers who wish to take it in the evening. As one exits from a bus, taking pedestrian space brings the threat of stray dogs. With hours lost in the traffic, the next motto of those plying buses is to speed up and engage in risk driving. Why not shift a good proportion of buses on other roads than add to traffic woes.
When you have a challenging task of beating the traffic heat and once you tend to get over it, some appear on a short fuse and give hard times to those immigrants who have taken premises on rent and leading a life of normality. It is issues like burning fuel, driving fast and not getting the desirable salary , some who were paid handsome in the past have had to settle for a meagre blast, that leads to taking vows to get rough with those hailing from the north east and other places.
Few days later visited the IIT Park with the Sun having made an appearance in a partial way. There were fewer collection inside the ground, with the metro construction having taken more space. As unprecedented cold spell is more or less over, one can roughly hazard a guess what would a traffic-turning-to-a-litter here and a money chase there would lead to. Amidst these mixed tales meeting Suka from Nagaland was nothing less than an enterprising interaction.
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