I traveled back and forth form Bangalore to Mysore to celebrate my grand moms 75th birthday. It was a small family get together that was overdue for a long time. The distance is 145 km and the time expected to cover the journey is 2 hrs. Unfortunately we took 3 hrs. I'm not complaining about the state of the roads here. In fact I was amazed by the quality of roads on the highway. It was an extremely smooth ride. We could reach upwards of 140 km/hr easily at certain stretches. Why then did we take 3 hrs ?
The test of patience came when I witnessed the amazing, the mighty, the huge, the over stacked trucks of the Indian automobile sector. Indian road etiquette dictates that slow moving heavy vehicle's have to travel on the extreme left hand side of the road.
Scenario one :
But our super heroes travel in the middle of the road. Probably they have made a deal with all the fuel company's to ensure we mortals spend more time on the roads and average a lesser mileage.
Scenario two:
If they travel on the extreme right, how do they expect any one to overtake them when by law overtaking on the left is an offense. Yet people are forced to breaking the law which in turn causes a lot of mishaps on the highways.
Scenario three:
By far my most favorite one of all. Two slow moving trucks on both lanes traveling abreast with each other trying to find who is the slower fool. 5 minutes behind one of these trucks and you have a pile up of 100 cars behind you.
It is amazing really to watch the faster moving vehicle drivers patiently traveling behind these trucks, launching vituperate attacks against the drivers of the trucks and honking away to kingdom come. When will our heavy vehicle drivers learn there place on the roads?
The test of patience came when I witnessed the amazing, the mighty, the huge, the over stacked trucks of the Indian automobile sector. Indian road etiquette dictates that slow moving heavy vehicle's have to travel on the extreme left hand side of the road.
Scenario one :
But our super heroes travel in the middle of the road. Probably they have made a deal with all the fuel company's to ensure we mortals spend more time on the roads and average a lesser mileage.
Scenario two:
If they travel on the extreme right, how do they expect any one to overtake them when by law overtaking on the left is an offense. Yet people are forced to breaking the law which in turn causes a lot of mishaps on the highways.
Scenario three:
By far my most favorite one of all. Two slow moving trucks on both lanes traveling abreast with each other trying to find who is the slower fool. 5 minutes behind one of these trucks and you have a pile up of 100 cars behind you.
It is amazing really to watch the faster moving vehicle drivers patiently traveling behind these trucks, launching vituperate attacks against the drivers of the trucks and honking away to kingdom come. When will our heavy vehicle drivers learn there place on the roads?
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