Minor "adjust"

Wish they allow all to click photos of violators and MMS them, and fine them based on the photos. The Indica could have stopped well before the zebra, but it didn't so the two bikes too encroached1/3rd of the zebra. Zero tolerance is the way to go, I am sure that it will help.

Yellow line...

The dreaded scratcher, these (blue) tempos cause most dents and scratches. Tempo is happily on the wrong side, slowing down the oncoming traffic. This is the signal near Sadashiva Nagar police station. The road from IISc to Mekhri Circle.

Many a times I put my hand out and stop people from going on the wrong side. I yell but do not attack the person, just tell what is wrong. Something like "Don't go on the wrong side, it will create a jam". Yelling in kannada helps. Typically, one would be tempted to yell something like "Are you blind? Can't you see? Don't you know the rules?" This definitely leads to a personal altercation.

Human tendency is to not to attack you personally, if they are not attacked personally. Most times the drivers turn sheepish. Interestingly, you immediately get support from others in the vicinity.

Hope all drivers do their bit to keep traffic smooth, one not only has to follow rules, but also try to enforce it in a small way.

spinning in Bangalore,,,

Returning home, hit Old Madras Road from 100 ft road, no entry! no left turn!!
U turn and tried to hit from 80 ft road, again no entry! no left turn!!

U turn and went on ulsoor road, took a left at Ulsore police station and landed back in Indiaranagar 100 ft road. Should have continued straight to Trinity circle.

Hmm... quite a spin, reason for blockage, Bengaluru Metro. I was driving on this road after a gap of four weeks, so was caught by surprise. Incidentally, when driving on Old Madras Road on way out, felt traffic was SMOOTH! Dawned at midnight it was due to one way traffic.

No respect for the Zebra

This is just before Cantt station, at the traffic signal, coming from Vasanth Nagar.

Fining for stopping on zebra crossings should help much more than fining for jumping signals. As it is precursor to jumping signal.

Red light jumping and standing!

This is at Richmond Circle. The auto is pretending to be an pedestrian, he is bang in the middle of the zebra and all the bikes to the right of it too. You can see that the signal is red, cop too was present.

Think they should install cameras at crossings and click the violators and fine them.

Unbelievable!

This was a saturday, but nevertheless the light just turned green and traffic has not rolled! It helps if you are the first to hit the signal and stay well behind the zebra, others too tend to stop parallel to you. So you can LEAD by staying back! i.e., help in other following the rule by following it yourself.

This is Cubbon Road, the signal near BRV, going from CTO.

Blatant violation of traffic signal and pedestrian rights.

This was around 11:30 am, at CTO circle, going from Indian Express.

The light is red and there is still more than 10 secs to go.

Sense and adjust at traffic signals

I was able to capture an image of what I experience many times, feels good that one can make a difference, a little drop, but it can make an ocean.

Picture this, I am driving down Queens' road and the traffic light at Indian Express junctions turns amber and red, I stop as expected (by the rules, traffic expects you to beat the signal), i.e., well behind the zebra crossing and guess what, bikes and car to my left and right do the same! They stop as they should!! So was able to induce traffic sense for a few minutes, this picture says it all.

I have experienced this many times, if you stop or follow rules, others tend to follow too. If you strart inching forward, others too.

Well the next signal was at Raj Bhavan road junction, and I was behind an auto, the auto stopped just on the zebra crossing and others followed suit. I stopped well behind and was thinking of getting down and coaxing the auto fellow back, I had left ample space for that, but decided against as you dont know when signal turns green. Worse was that auto started inching in anticipation of light turning green. Ultimate is that sometimes traffic cops signal you on with light red. Look at this picture, this is stationary shot. What really gets me is that people who follow processes and pride in SEI-CMM level 5 at work dont follow rules or let their drivers flout rules.

Me thinks if each of us practice restraint when we happen to be at right spot at right time, it can make a difference. Hopefully...