tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post2082616225468444007..comments2024-03-28T05:53:29.110-07:00Comments on Inside view: Of Bengaluru and anything else that prompts me to ramble!: Is Bangalore is on the brink of disaster. May be it has been that way for a while. Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-33256340135739830702014-12-03T07:58:23.895-08:002014-12-03T07:58:23.895-08:00Hi Nidhi!
I have been fighting this losing battl...Hi Nidhi!<br /> <br />I have been fighting this losing battle for a very long time.<br /> <br />The foot paths/pavements are used for everything other than what it was designed for.<br /> <br />For urinating, for defecating, for hawking, for setting up a shop, for living, for giving birth, for dying, for cooking, for housing & what have you!!!<br /> <br />They are very poorly designed and with great difficulty I managed to get one stretch of the footpath in front of our local Ward office redone to make it wheelchair friendly and no sooner was it done the building owners raised the level of the footpath so that they can raise their plinth level to avoid flooding. At most places the level of the footpath is so high that senior citizens find it difficult to get onto the footpath (I should know as I am getting there fast). And sure enough you go a short distance and you have to climb down and up again. Never a dull moment in this country!<br /> <br />Ramesh.<br /> <br /> Mahabir Ursnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-59357050372744608782014-12-01T19:05:22.853-08:002014-12-01T19:05:22.853-08:00http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/07/or...http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/07/origin-of-the-term-jaywalking/<br /><br />Contrary to popular belief, the term jaywalking does not derive from the shape of the letter “J” (referencing the path a jaywalker might travel when crossing a road). Rather, it comes from the fact that “Jay” used to be a generic term for someone who was an idiot, dull, rube, unsophisticated, poor, or simpleton. More precisely, it was once a common term for “country bumpkins” or “hicks”, usually seen incorrectly as inherently stupid by “city” folk.<br /><br />Thus, to “Jay walk” was to be stupid by crossing the street in an unsafe place or way, or some country person visiting the city who wasn’t used to the rules of the road for pedestrians in an urban environment, so would attempt to cross or walk in the streets anywhere. As it stated in the January 25, 1937 New York Times, “In many streets like Oxford Street, for instance, the jaywalker wanders complacently in the very middle of the roadway as if it was a country lane.”<br /><br />In order to counter the automobile interests who were trying to get pedestrians off the road, for a time the term “jay drivers” was used as a derogatory term for people who drive cars in such a way as to hog the road or pose a danger to pedestrians. This obviously didn’t catch on and, in the end, the automobile companies won the fight for use of roads.N L Sriramnoreply@blogger.com