The BRT corridor of death, confusion and traffic jams

The title just summarizes the three basic flaws in the construction of the BRT(for the ignorant ones this is Bus Rapid Transit corridor dedicated to high capacity, low floor buses to ply between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand). These flaws are not something that you need to look for explicitly but they make themselves visible to your eyes as soon as you step into this corridor.

Many deaths have taken place on this stretch from the time the work on this corridor has started. Mostly because people in delhi are just not used to seeing dividers in the middle of the road. Thus making the divider a frequent place for accidents to take place. This has been covered widely in the newspapers and is expected to reduce as people become familiar with this idea. But this is not why I am writing this post!!!!

Now lets look at the single most reason why I hate this stretch. I used to go to my college everyday on this stretch and found it one of the most congestion free roads making it my preferred way to college. Since the time of starting this project till today I have my usage of this road by almost 60-70%. The reason??? Traffic Jams. Yes, I, like everybody else, hate traffic jams. The road has now been divided into two lanes and in one of the lanes you cant even overtake and in the second lane you need to be a little experienced driver to do so. Leading to single lines of vehicles stretching upto 1 km(Yes I have witnessed this and missed 2 classes of 1 hour each due to this jam). The earlier scene was such that you could easily have 4 vehicles standing and moving side by side and hence there was no chance of a traffic jam, but now every now and then there is a traffic jam.

Why were these corridors created in the first place. These corridors were proposed uring the time when blueline buses were on a rampage on delhi roads, but is this a solution??
Still the same drivers will be driving these buses. The bus-stops are in the middle of the road calling for more accidents.

I fail to see even a single reason as to why such huge amount of money was spent on this project. Instead of solving a problem it raises more problems. All our tax-payers money spent on creating traffic jams and more accidents. Looks like good use of our money.

The Budget Sucks, but so do we!!

A poll year and the budget dont go hand-in-hand. Chidambram proved it once again. A hugely populist budget ready to put the breaks on our growth.

Huge relief for farmers - Teaching them not to repay their loans as some govt or the other will come and clear them. Is this the solution to our slow growth in the agricultural sector???

Who will pay the deficit of Rs 60,000 crores?? It is us who will have to shell out this amount from our hard earned money. Giving to the poor sections is not what I am against, what I am against is one time relief which causes a lifetime of trouble. I dont think from now on any farmer will be interested in paying back their loans.


Then again chidambram tries to woo people by the 6th pay commission and the income tax slab changes. Absolutely nothing for the industry!!!! The stock markets were hugely disappointed by the budget closing down 246 points.

Why does the finance minister want to sacrifice the platform that he has built over the last 4 years? Why does every govt. waste its 4 years of effort by giving a populist budget in the poll year? Who is at fault??

Now this maybe a little in the face. Yes, its you and me who base our votes on the recent work by the govt and not the work done by the govt over the past 5 years. "The fin minister raised the taxes this year, I am voting for a change". This is the real you and me.

"BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE"

Australians just dont give up! Do they??

I cant help but think why, oh why are these australians like this? Why no other team is like them? Then I realized they are the world champions, they are the champions at everything, batting, bowling, fielding and sledging. You cant blame them for this behavior, they will do anything to remain the champs.

But then why do I dont remember any other world cup winning team with this behavior. Then I got the answer to this as well. No other team had a hattrick in the world-cup.

This is just one of the "side-effects" of winning. It can be dangerous too, when it enters your head. The australians have lost the respect earned by winning the world cups, atleast from me.
For me winning is just the icing on the cake. Somehow I fell good while playing(Comp games in this case) and with my friends and when I win, I am happier. If I lose(which is quite often) I feel happy just that I could play.

Why, oh why do I differ from these australians?