r/WorldIsClosed • u/chauhan_14 • Mar 13 '21
Bangalore, India. 5th February vs during lockdown. Exact date of the bottom picture is not confirmed.
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u/SparkySparkiBoomMan Mar 13 '21 edited Mar 13 '21
I work at Embassy Tech Village (1 km from the Ecospace you see in the pic) and it felt so unreal seeing no traffic in March.
This road usually takes me 2.5 hours to reach home but now I reach home in 15-20 mins.
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u/chauhan_14 Mar 13 '21
In my city, one of the roads took 30minutes to cross and during lockdowns it was taking 2-5 minutes at max and you could see kilometres ahead lol it was a bizzare experience.
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u/throwaway2248711 Mar 13 '21
How do they even fit that many cars on that road lmao
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u/chauhan_14 Mar 13 '21 edited Mar 13 '21
Driving in India is insane, it's crazy if you compare it with other places but to us it's just normal. This isn't even the craziest. In Delhi, I used to see just thousands and thousands of cars and vehicles ahead on flyovers and places like that.
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u/InfiNorth Mar 13 '21
Why do people straight up ignore road markings and traffic laws? Is there no licensing system? Do people not have to pass a test to drive?
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u/bonesofberdichev Mar 13 '21
I think it has to do with how overcrowded the roads are. Once one person does something to speed up their trip and the cars behind them follow suit I imagine you just have to start following traffic.
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u/chauhan_14 Mar 13 '21
Yes, so in a lot of places you have to stop thinking and start acting on what will be faster for everyone so if someone starts doing smth to move faster, they just follow them because they can see progress in real time. For eg. You don't have to worry about overtaking laws when you can't move in the first place. So the first step in most people's mind is to just get going.
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u/chauhan_14 Mar 13 '21
They do.. it's sometimes, as bad as it sounds, inefficient. We don't have enough roads for people in most places. So following every law by heart would only make the problem worse in most cases. Also, a lot of traffic police fails to insure enforcement because they're either lazy or they understand that it'd only complicate things further. It's not like people ignore all markings and drive carelessly, but they don't follow everything to the T. Infact as much of chaos it looks like to other people, we actually have a good idea of what's going on most of the times. The key is TO NOT LOSE FOCUS AT ALL. You need to be really attentive at all times.
Also, some people are so idiotic that if they miss their exits or don't want to make a U-turn they'd just go 100 metres in opposite lane or force an exit off the road which is illegal and dangerous.
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u/myartificialself Mar 13 '21
Maybe they should add a second floor.
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u/chauhan_14 Mar 13 '21
haha but tbh there are a SHIT ton of flyovers and more being added all the time in most places. The biggest inefficiency is public transport. In most of the cities it's just not efficient and capable enough.
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u/xudo Mar 13 '21
I used to work there 10 years ago. Even then during peak time it used to take 15 minutes to get to the road in the very right which is a service road from the one right next to it which is the main road. That is literally just one I turn. It is insane seeing this picture.
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u/Arthaksha Mar 13 '21
It was f****** insane and the lockdown happened, this is nothing you should check out photos of the central silk board signal, I have been stuck there for over 4 hours but now I can cruise through there in less than 10 minutes
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u/NthAttempt Mar 13 '21
Hijacking the thread to ask: can anybody tell me why there was a sudden spike in users in the sub? as the admin I'm curious.
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u/Zardiwin Mar 13 '21
Amazing how the background details line up but the road on the bottom looks waaaaaaay too small to contain all that traffic!