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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Posted 8:25 PM by Anurag

Private Traffic Policing creates nuisance

Mail from a colleague on a genuine problem:

"Hi,

I am sending a copy of my mail to TIMES OF INDIA sent this morning, please raise enough decibels to stop this nuisance, I hope you also face similar situations everywhere in Bangalore,

Regards

XYZ
-----Original Message-----
From: XYZ
Sent: 12 May 2005 11:14
To:TIMES OF INDIA
Subject: Corporates take over traffic on Bannerghatta Road

Hi,

It seems the corporates have decided to take people literally for a ride, at least that is what appears on Bannerghatta Road (the first public-private joint venture). Every morning, if you are rushing towards office, you observe a bevy of immaculately dressed security personnel manning the traffic near Honeywell. This is impressive, before you realize that the effort is only to facilitate the entry of its employees, while the rest of the Bangalore crowd are forced to wait at this 'traffic junction'. While some have dared to protest (especially since these security personnel have no business manning these roads, much to the disgust of common people!) these security people have ignored them repeatedly. If this was done to facilitate traffic for public in general, nobody would have complained, only if this effort is directed towards a lucky few (who got employment in Honeywell) it matters. Added to this, the Bannerghatta Road after its widening has become the parking lot for all the company's buses (used for transporting its employees, again!) and whatever widening the BDA manages on this road, thus is rendered useless. Though Bannerghatta Road was earlier decided to be a NO PARKING road, several vehicles, which transport IT/ITES personnel (HSBC, Accenture, Convergys) are regularly found parked at the curbs, (often without the minimum parking decorum). Are we as residents of this Silicon Valley destination, expected to tolerate these nuisance, for the sake of GDP growth, or is there a divine authority who can intervene and tell these companies to discipline? It is ironical that the same companies in their respective Corporate offices abroad follow strict rules of the land; so in a way are Bangaloreans being too complacent about these intrusions?

regards

XYZ"

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