Bangalore needs no half measures

A recent visit of mine to Bangalore has prompted me to write this about Bangalore. The city is growing beyond its capacity. It has literally exploded with people. You get down at the railway station and the stairs up the bridge connecting the platforms can easily be interpreted by Golaiths as a stick on which ants are climbing up. This is the state with all the sticks up the bridge. Not long back there was a stampede on this station and yet no signs are visible of improvements.

It rains almost every evening and the roads are more pot holes than roads itself. How I wish everyone was so rich to be owning a Dicor and making his own road. The traffic problem in my view cannot be solved by half measures like making one ways etc. The city needs to expansion horizontally with bigger roads and flyovers. Cities like Mysore need to be connected well enough so that people opt to stay there and commute the 2 hour journey. It might sound funny but with a fast lane highway which might be coming in a few days the Mysore-Bangalore travel would be reduced to 2 hours and this is the time many of the people spend reaching the electronic city.

Its high time the care takers of Bangalore wake up from their slumber and sit down planning the future growth of the city. It has a great potential to be one of the most prosperous cities of India but only if the current problems are adressed. As the days is not far when people like me who enjoy the luxuries of a smaller town Mysore pack their bags and move for it.