Thursday, January 13, 2011

10 Intelligent Solutions For Fixing Pune's Traffic Woes

Given below are my entirely serious opinions on how to fix traffic problems in Pune.

1. Teach people to drive on the correct side. Driving on the wrong side can get them killed.

2. You should always overtake someone from their right. Trying to overtake someone from their left will get you killed.

3. If you are a slow vehicle stick to the left side of the road. We don't have lanes on most roads but do use your common sense. Sitting inside your little box, slowly rolling along the road you might feel like you are breaking the sound barrier but you are not even travelling at speed that would kill a fly if it hits your windshield. If you don't follow this simple rule then the other drivers have the right to (I might say it is their duty) to nudge your vehicle forcefully till it is pushed off the road.

4. Cutting someone off when they are peacefully driving is not right. If you were having a peaceful meal and I came and shoved a fork in your eye you wont like it. Same applies here.

5. Don't buy a car in a city where the roads are barely big enough to accommodate one. You are a bigger idiot if you buy one of those cars with a big ass. Not only do you block the rest of the traffic, you yourself are like a huge rock in the middle of a river. Good luck getting anywhere dumb-ass!

6. While we are on the subject, don't use your big vehicle to bully other smaller vehicles (like motorbikes). Threatening to kill someone smaller just so that you can cut them off on the road automatically earns you a punch to the face (this is the nicest punishment ever).

7. Don't park your in front of parking spaces. It makes you look like you have been failing kindergarten for the past 20 years. If such vehicles are found other drivers can surely go ahead and dismantle it to its bare parts and spread those parts all over the city (Hint: The exhaust will be hidden inside the owner of the car!).

8. Taking a wedding procession out in the middle of an extremely busy road is only going to earn you curses from thousands of people. Surely not how you wanted to spend your special day. In fact I guess you deserve them if you think loudly playing hot, hot Bollywood numbers is the highlight of your wedding and the start to a successful marriage.

9. Don't take shit from corrupt police. They are the scum of the land. They are employed so that they can serve us. The way things are now, its like a bunch of parasites are ruling over us. Stop being such sheeple.

10. If you are a pedestrian understand the hierarchy. Walking in front of a fast moving vehicle and signalling them to stop while you cross the road is a sure way of ending up with major fractures (if not worse). Don't frustrate the drivers so much that they start designing a game called 'Who flattens the most pedestrians!'.

But yash, killing or torturing these people is hardly going to solve anything!

I have felt the frustration and the risk of dying because of them.
So better them than me.

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