I was in Bangalore on wednesday for BangaloreIT.in event, and it took 4 hours to go and come back due to traffic and demonstrations. At the evening, it took more than an hour and a half in the security queue at the airport! See pictures below.
It is amazing how the city has continuously failed to react (forget planning) to the infrastructure needs to support growth! I think its at a tipping point of frustrating people out of the city. As one of the people at the airport said “Bangalore is now in Auto F*** Mode”.
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>> A friend who visited Chennai recently was amazed at how clean (unpolluted), easy to navigate smooth/fast traffic, and lively the city >>
Mohan,
Please! Tell us you are joking.
For a city which has just got classified as a class A metro, infrastructure is pathetic. I wish these classifications are based on other such criteria than just population.
I also do not think we see a more corrupt city. In other cities, work goes on as usual so far as infrastructure is concerned even if corruption exists. The NICE project is a standing examples.
A friend who visited Chennai recently was amazed at how clean (unpolluted), easy to navigate smooth/fast traffic, and lively the city is. This inspite of the decrepit political weather in TN.
Some cues for Karnataka to pick up from its neighbours.
Airport ? What’s about it now ? They haven’t figured who’d be their next CM… and finally if the President’s rule is revoked and one of them (BJP / JD-S) gets the chair, they’ll hardly have time for anything else other than retaining it or to pull it from under the incumbent’s butt…
Infrastructure can wait….
So, How do I post on venturewoods? leaving comments will be awfully boring, and charging me for it…how abt some Trust 🙂 ?
That companies are still flocking to Bangalore and you still see high grassroots level entrepreneurship speaks volumes about the resilience of the city’s techie culture. Even the national capital, as far as I know , does not have services like Bangaloreone, where you can pay any bill all round the week.
Its a classic case of what might have been. I worked for an NGO which was trying to involve citizens in solving some of the localized problems. Unfortunately, there are systemic faults at work. In the recent past, there has also been a strong anti-IT sentiment which has taken strong roots. IT still provides direct employment to less than 10% of the city’s workforce. Those who are left out have the votes and direct the local policies.