Driving around in Mumbai is pretty easy. People mostly stick to their lanes, use signals and only the people you expect to misbehave, misbehave. Also, since there is so much traffic, there is very little movement and hence, scope for misbehaving.
Bangalore is just the opposite. The traffic is okay apart from the usual hot spots and the office rush, the roads are mostly pretty cool and the people are nice. As soon as they get behind the wheel of a car or the handlebar of a motorcycle, they tend to loose their senses!
In spite of clearly painted lanes, the drivers tend to completely ignore them. Now you might say that this is fairly common for India. No one sticks to the painted lanes do they? In Mumbai, generally people tend to form their own lanes and then stick to them. In Bangalore they too form their own lanes but never feel like sticking to them. The grass being greener on the other side and all. And that’s what really boils my brains.
My friend who was driving is pretty patient with these antics of the locals, but I would be screaming my head off and using every ounce of willpower in not whacking the living shits out of the perpetrators. Not good for my blood pressure I know, but I am fairly calm when I am yelling for these mundane, nay, routine things. The only reason I see myself behaving like this is possibly because I am not used to the Bangalorean driving mentality. If I do move there and have to drive every day then I would adapt, but until then I am glad I got something to blog about!
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Abhilash is a part time blogger and blogs about photography, technology and travel. When not blogging Abhilash is either selling outsourcing solutions to companies or indulging in marathon episodes of various science fiction shows and movies.
Haha… Welcome to my world…I live in the NCR and things are not good here either… Why people keep changing lanes that too without giving an indicator is something i don't understand… I have to face morning traffic during office hours everyday, I have become pretty indifferent to them now…
Since we are on the topic of trsffic may be you would want to stop on my blog, have a few of them on my wierd experiences while driving, may be you will like them…
Cheers
@Mukund
I hope to achieve your level of indifference too some day