Traffic on Indian Roads, Specifically in Bangalore:
Many of the netizens would have read about an incident in Kolkata, where a Techie was in pool of Blood before he breathed his last!!
Nothing is enough……Money not enough!! More roads not enough!!!…Wide Roads not Enough!! More money not enough!!…More luxuries not enough!!! Want MORE!!
Well this is the reality,whether you like it or not.
Indian Roads are the Roads some of which were used by many generations. Earlier, people used the roads to walk, later they started using the bullock-carts, later two-wheelers,3-wheelers,four-wheelers etc., All ‘multi-wheelers’ are increasing in the number while the capacity of the roads that can carry all these change at a slower rate than the users of the roads. The Roads in Bangalore are narrower in many places and many of the roads are without median/dividers. Shop keepers on either side of the Roads would prefer not to have the road divider/barricade so they can move between various shops easily. Even the people who walk on the roads would ‘not’ prefer the barricade or divider so they can cross the road when there is ‘no’ threatening traffic on ‘at least’ one side of the Road. Till something goes ‘wrong’ everyone thinks it is ‘win-win’ arrangement to ‘not’ having the dividers. Even if one is constructed, some wise (?) person would break that divider (when the sun is BUSY is western part of the Globe) in a way similar to robbing his/her ‘dad’s’ pocket in the night…
If there are folks who know about the data packets flowing on the networks..they can easily visualize the probability of an accident on the roads. The capacity of the network and network devices is increasing as the technology advances. Also the number of network usage and average network usage is also increasing!! Why then we do not hear about ‘packet loss’ as often as we hear about accidents. Or Do we?
If only the packet that was lost contained ‘useful’ life, netizens would look at the packet and mourn for the same!!? And ask the internet policy groups, other users of net to have some consideration for the ‘life’.
It is not fair to blame any one or any system for the loss one suffers. Just for simple reason any system could also bring enormous benefit to other users( we call them lucky users, as long as no mishap happens). I,sometimes, envy the Technocrats, mathematicians and scientists as they could model new mechanisms or formulae in a defined environment. It might not be so easy in real life. Just like the way there are ‘noise reduction’ systems, Echo cancellors without which the ’signal’ or packet could suffer ‘loss’, in real-life innovative mechanisms are to be found and practised so as to reduce the mishaps. Obviously we cannot make the noise or the causes of ‘accidents’ to be zero overnight, but we can control them. And that is what I guess the developed world has done to reduce the ‘occurence’ of the accidents on the road, in a much similar way that the ‘packet collisions’ on the net have been managed!!?
So we, the users of the road need to lead the change….
