Saturday, October 21, 2006

Traffic Jammin' 2

The other day I called a friend who informed me that he was performing a very important and unavoidable daily ritual: negotiating the Hosur road traffic jam and feel frustrated. Talking to him made me think that there must be so much of fustration and plain simple bordom being faced by other perople like him who are stuck in the same jam and that they might think that there is something better that they can do during the 3-4 hrs. a day for covering a 4 Km stretch that they have to spend in the jam stuck in the company bus or the public buses right? then I thought, why not modify these buses to accomodate a small cafeteria, library, smoking chamber, mobile theatre etc.. Developing on this idea futher, this idea can be extended to other perinially traffi jam prone routes of the city. Who knows, there might acutally be a route where you can savour traffic jams across the city with friends over dinner and a drink and debate whether the authorities will wake up to the plight of the city or other hot topics like the quantum of increase in city taxes or cutting edge topics like innovative new taxes being added.