Walking or Driving in Namma Bengaluru!

As I try to get out of the bubble where I now live, I need to be alert.
Remember watching a video wherein a guru said in a jocular manner
that roads in India make people live in the 'Present'.
The non-resident audience laughed, but it is no laughing matter!

Let me start with definitions from a dictionary! 
*A road is a long piece of hard ground which is built between two places so that people can drive or ride easily from one place to the other.
Drive or ride yes! Easily? No way!

You assume that a road will have footpaths. Not always!
*British:A path for pedestrians in a built-up area; a pavement.
*A path for people to walk along, especially a right of way in the countryside.
As a right of way? It is debatable!

It has been a while I wrote a blog about Namma Bengaluru.  
We have moved into a bubble from a fairly congested part of the city.
 It is quieter but once we cross the border, the nightmare begins.     

We also discovered that this bubble is not a gated community.
The builder has split the bigger bubble into smaller bubbles
 and soon the so-called private roads are sure to become public roads. 
That is another story.

The pictures are from a walk I took 
on the Thanisandra main road next the so called bubble.  
Enjoy the walk!

The builders are conscientious! 
They do their bit for the society at large.
But you are kept off the grass!
If you look closely you see a biker riding in the wrong direction
That is normal! 
 'Double' roads are treated as two independent parallel roads.
More so in the suburbs.

The tiles were removed to clean the rain water drains.
But it will be a while before it is put back.

The cement tiles are so brittle a few crumble leaving gaping holes.
I am too scared to step on the weak tiles. 
Wonder how such shoddy work is tolerated?
We also build Metro and white top the roads using cement!

 While walking in the direction of  the traffic flow,
 I pick my way along the unpaved part!
And on the painted 'white line' while facing the oncoming traffic.
There is a possibility that a biker or a car will do the same .
You need to expect this on namma roads and hope for the best.

What can the city do if trees fall and people throw garbage.
A pedestrian has no choice but to walk on the road