Participated in a traffic jam today. It was certainly a community experience, a peek in the minds of people who participate in the circus that is Dehradun traffic.
Well, Traffic anywhere in India is a nightmare. Delhi, Bombay are a wee bit better as the Police force there go through the motions of being the enforcing agency. Some cities like Nagpur, Hyderabad are redeemed by having a good wide road network. No such luck for dear old Dehradun.
Dehradun, as I saw it first, was a sweet pensioners' paradise. Till about 15 yreas ago..Then Uttarakhand happened and Dehradun grew like a puffer fish, in an instant..in the blink of an eye..so the roads shrank, the roadside nullahs grew wider and filthier and the wheels just multiplied exponentially. And the traffic !!
Traffic in India is free for all. ! Let us over take, overover take and overoverover take. So we had three lines of four wheelers and absolutely haphazardly standing two wheelers and the complete road blocked and no place to make a left turn.
This road called Subhash Road is a fair enough two lane road ( Hope they cover those horrid open drains in the entire city) But as the traffic was crawling , each one wanted to race and come first. so these utter chaos.
I ended up spending about 40 minutes , first ten minutes waiting hopefully for the chaos to straighten themselves out,and then next 20 biting my nails and last 10 trying to sort things out. All because some people wanted to use a two way road as one way..
Well, Traffic anywhere in India is a nightmare. Delhi, Bombay are a wee bit better as the Police force there go through the motions of being the enforcing agency. Some cities like Nagpur, Hyderabad are redeemed by having a good wide road network. No such luck for dear old Dehradun.
Dehradun, as I saw it first, was a sweet pensioners' paradise. Till about 15 yreas ago..Then Uttarakhand happened and Dehradun grew like a puffer fish, in an instant..in the blink of an eye..so the roads shrank, the roadside nullahs grew wider and filthier and the wheels just multiplied exponentially. And the traffic !!
Traffic in India is free for all. ! Let us over take, overover take and overoverover take. So we had three lines of four wheelers and absolutely haphazardly standing two wheelers and the complete road blocked and no place to make a left turn.
This road called Subhash Road is a fair enough two lane road ( Hope they cover those horrid open drains in the entire city) But as the traffic was crawling , each one wanted to race and come first. so these utter chaos.
I ended up spending about 40 minutes , first ten minutes waiting hopefully for the chaos to straighten themselves out,and then next 20 biting my nails and last 10 trying to sort things out. All because some people wanted to use a two way road as one way..
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