Does it belong to BMC who keep digging it up for fun, oil or is it hidden treasure?
Does it belong to the pedestrian, who in spite of a 10 ft footpath insists on walking on the road?
Or Does it belong to the "public servant" politician who can take a caravan of 6 cars, traveling at break neck speed, bullying all vehicles with guns and gears?
Or does it belong to the guy who pays road tax and petrol tax and service tax and vehicle tax and any other tax chidambarm can think off, yet has to crawl thru walkers, dogs, cops, road blocks, politicians and wannabe politicians and of course, the hawkers, cows and accidents....
Solution:
1. One authority for all the roads, whoever wants to dig has to ask and submit time bound plans, with a caution deposit... If they over step thier time limit, they lose money on a daily basis and thier government supplier status has to take a downgrade.
2. There was a time when we were a two wheeler country, then it made sense to overlook jaywalkers, no longer, now we are a 4 wheeler country, if we dont reign in the jaywalkers, many more people will get hurt or die.
If pedestrians refuse to use the footpath, demolish and make it part of the road please. I have seen educated fools walking the road when there is an empty footpath next to them...
3. Politicans should travel early morning (pre-rush) or late night (post rush) if they want a whole cavalcade. Our tax ruppees is funding thier vehicles, so we get first preference. Cops should quit bullying poor people on the road. Today, Vashi toll bridge was crowded because, some politican wanted go out of town...
4. Lastly, People should respect themselves and others like them, quit honking, driving when they can't drive and please respect lanes and signals....
The most important thing, is to have transparecy, instead of people applying under RTI, why can't all projects be updated with bids online?
All drunk drivers, should have thier mugs, names and licence no.s on the website.
I wanted to write reams on the Autos, thier refusals to ply and thier meters, but maybe later :D
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Friday, January 05, 2007
Taxing away
Mumbai pple will know these sad stories
Scene1
boy gets down at Airport and wants to go to say Lower Parel
he sits in a cab and viola! it costs him 300 bucks
if the boy is a foreigner it costs him 3000
actual fare 150 - 170???
Scene2
Boy wants to go from Lower Parel to Parel - distance - 2 Kms
fare 13 bucks
Chances of him finding a cab who will take him there - 0
Boy is white, all cabbies are willing,
fare is 100 bucks
What is happening here is greed and a misplaced sense of injustice
Greed one may cure, what do we do with this sense of injustice
the cab drivers claim that they cant make ends meet so they have to resort to these and many other short cuts to a full pocket
other tricks being
a super fast meter,
wrong fare card and
the classic lost my way
Did you know that, we are still paying them petrol engine fares.
the new CNG engines are 4 times more fuel efficient!!!
Solution
In mumbai we are blessed with a police force that is not awed by the taxi force
just tell the nearest one and he will make sure the cabbie will take you in
He will not know of course that the cabbie can drop you off at the next corner, where he knows there is no cop.
This is funny is it not.
the penalty for not taking a passenger is suspention of the taxi driver's permit for 3 months, yet they can do it with impunity
Pls do carry the traffic control room no. and you are safe
I have few reasons to praise any Police,
but Mumbai Police is another creature.......
We as consumers have to fight this evil
we made a cartel and quit using cabs that were not making short hauls
The stand got wise and started doing short hauls and now all are happy
Where the stands have not gotten wise, everyone still suffers
Fight it or do not crib is my motto!!
Scene1
boy gets down at Airport and wants to go to say Lower Parel
he sits in a cab and viola! it costs him 300 bucks
if the boy is a foreigner it costs him 3000
actual fare 150 - 170???
Scene2
Boy wants to go from Lower Parel to Parel - distance - 2 Kms
fare 13 bucks
Chances of him finding a cab who will take him there - 0
Boy is white, all cabbies are willing,
fare is 100 bucks
What is happening here is greed and a misplaced sense of injustice
Greed one may cure, what do we do with this sense of injustice
the cab drivers claim that they cant make ends meet so they have to resort to these and many other short cuts to a full pocket
other tricks being
a super fast meter,
wrong fare card and
the classic lost my way
Did you know that, we are still paying them petrol engine fares.
the new CNG engines are 4 times more fuel efficient!!!
Solution
In mumbai we are blessed with a police force that is not awed by the taxi force
just tell the nearest one and he will make sure the cabbie will take you in
He will not know of course that the cabbie can drop you off at the next corner, where he knows there is no cop.
This is funny is it not.
the penalty for not taking a passenger is suspention of the taxi driver's permit for 3 months, yet they can do it with impunity
Pls do carry the traffic control room no. and you are safe
I have few reasons to praise any Police,
but Mumbai Police is another creature.......
We as consumers have to fight this evil
we made a cartel and quit using cabs that were not making short hauls
The stand got wise and started doing short hauls and now all are happy
Where the stands have not gotten wise, everyone still suffers
Fight it or do not crib is my motto!!
Saturday, December 16, 2006
taxi drivers
Mumbai pple will know these sad stories
Scene1
boy gets down at Airport and wants to go to say Lower Parel
he sits in a cab and viola! it costs him 300 bucks
if the boy is a foreigner it costs him 3000
actual fare 150 - 170???
Scene2
Boy wants to go from Lower Parel to Parel - distance - 2 Kms
fare 13 bucks
Chances of him finding a cab who will take him there - 0
Boy is white, all cabbies are willing,
fare is 100 bucks
What is happening here is greed and a misplaced sense of injustice
Greed one may cure, what do we do with this sense of injustice
the cab drivers claim that they cant make ends meet so they have to resort to these and many other short cuts to a full pocket
other tricks being
a super fast meter,
wrong fare card and
the classic lost my way
Did you know that, we are still paying them petrol engine fares.
the new CNG engines are 4 times more fuel efficient!!!
Solution
In mumbai we are blessed with a police force that is not awed by the taxi force
just tell the nearest one and he will make sure the cabbie will take you in
He will not know of course that the cabbie can drop you off at the next corner, where he knows there is no cop.
This is funny is it not.
the penalty for not taking a passenger is suspention of the taxi driver's permit for 3 months, yet they can do it with impunity
Pls do carry the traffic control room no. and you are safe
I have few reasons to praise any Police,
but Mumbai Police is another creature.......
We as consumers have to fight this evil
we made a cartel and quit using cabs that were not making short hauls
The stand got wise and started doing short hauls and now all are happy
Where the stands have not gotten wise, everyone still suffers
Fight it or do not crib is my motto!!
Scene1
boy gets down at Airport and wants to go to say Lower Parel
he sits in a cab and viola! it costs him 300 bucks
if the boy is a foreigner it costs him 3000
actual fare 150 - 170???
Scene2
Boy wants to go from Lower Parel to Parel - distance - 2 Kms
fare 13 bucks
Chances of him finding a cab who will take him there - 0
Boy is white, all cabbies are willing,
fare is 100 bucks
What is happening here is greed and a misplaced sense of injustice
Greed one may cure, what do we do with this sense of injustice
the cab drivers claim that they cant make ends meet so they have to resort to these and many other short cuts to a full pocket
other tricks being
a super fast meter,
wrong fare card and
the classic lost my way
Did you know that, we are still paying them petrol engine fares.
the new CNG engines are 4 times more fuel efficient!!!
Solution
In mumbai we are blessed with a police force that is not awed by the taxi force
just tell the nearest one and he will make sure the cabbie will take you in
He will not know of course that the cabbie can drop you off at the next corner, where he knows there is no cop.
This is funny is it not.
the penalty for not taking a passenger is suspention of the taxi driver's permit for 3 months, yet they can do it with impunity
Pls do carry the traffic control room no. and you are safe
I have few reasons to praise any Police,
but Mumbai Police is another creature.......
We as consumers have to fight this evil
we made a cartel and quit using cabs that were not making short hauls
The stand got wise and started doing short hauls and now all are happy
Where the stands have not gotten wise, everyone still suffers
Fight it or do not crib is my motto!!
Thursday, December 14, 2006
reverse discrimination
funny this should be a topic at all
but it seems true..
I remember a Dr. Who novel about how the Earth goes in to a cold freeze after over cleaning and removing too much CO2.
similarly over education about equal rights to the girl child seems to have screwed the boy child
take the case of Kerala, more women and less men....
I am an ardent supporter of equal status but some cannot be more equal..
same as my posts on reservations.
Why will you treat your girl child better or worse than a boy child, i have no idea...
think about that...
While parents feel the need to save up for thier girld child's marriage they see no need to do so for their male child, understanding being that the bride will bear that burden.
Ironic
I would like it to be an equal share thing, what about u.
but it seems true..
I remember a Dr. Who novel about how the Earth goes in to a cold freeze after over cleaning and removing too much CO2.
similarly over education about equal rights to the girl child seems to have screwed the boy child
take the case of Kerala, more women and less men....
I am an ardent supporter of equal status but some cannot be more equal..
same as my posts on reservations.
Why will you treat your girl child better or worse than a boy child, i have no idea...
think about that...
While parents feel the need to save up for thier girld child's marriage they see no need to do so for their male child, understanding being that the bride will bear that burden.
Ironic
I would like it to be an equal share thing, what about u.
Friday, September 15, 2006
Who is a VIP???
people who drive in the roads (meaning: unpaved general ways pple get to work and back) of Mumbai must have had to deal with a caravan of cars that suddenly erupt in to their mundane driving experience
in a road choc-a-bloc with traffic, sirens, horns and traffic violations descend..
some men in safari suits brandishing big guns, shouting, hurling abuses...
drivers with scant respect for human life leave alone animals
all paid by our combined tax money.
the I between the V and P is an interesting animal
the size of it seems to be directly proportional to the no. of cars and the noise they create.
Public servants in a democracy become rulers of the road in a demoncracy.
its like the kings of old, if a biker gets too close, close defined by the mood of the security guard, he is either driven in to a corner or shouted at or threatened by a gun toting safari suit bully.
wht i propose as a solution is:
1. One vip one vehicle
2. pls take off in the middle of the night and go where u want on open roads
3. spare tax payers going to their HONEST work, no one has the time threaten the VIP
these vips are worse than terrorists,
not worth a shot coin and they behave like they are running the universe...
spare us
people who drive in the roads (meaning: unpaved general ways pple get to work and back) of Mumbai must have had to deal with a caravan of cars that suddenly erupt in to their mundane driving experience
in a road choc-a-bloc with traffic, sirens, horns and traffic violations descend..
some men in safari suits brandishing big guns, shouting, hurling abuses...
drivers with scant respect for human life leave alone animals
all paid by our combined tax money.
the I between the V and P is an interesting animal
the size of it seems to be directly proportional to the no. of cars and the noise they create.
Public servants in a democracy become rulers of the road in a demoncracy.
its like the kings of old, if a biker gets too close, close defined by the mood of the security guard, he is either driven in to a corner or shouted at or threatened by a gun toting safari suit bully.
wht i propose as a solution is:
1. One vip one vehicle
2. pls take off in the middle of the night and go where u want on open roads
3. spare tax payers going to their HONEST work, no one has the time threaten the VIP
these vips are worse than terrorists,
not worth a shot coin and they behave like they are running the universe...
spare us
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
in protests today:
Protest against a nazi name by mumbai's jews,
by docs against reservations - i support thier cause btw
for every valid protest like the one against Reservations, there seems to be 10 for causes like change the name of the restaurant and apologize by the Jews of Mumbai,
Ban omkara for it has abuses,
Censor movies, because people are not sensible, they dont know what to watch....
list goes on
Protest against a nazi name by mumbai's jews,
by docs against reservations - i support thier cause btw
for every valid protest like the one against Reservations, there seems to be 10 for causes like change the name of the restaurant and apologize by the Jews of Mumbai,
Ban omkara for it has abuses,
Censor movies, because people are not sensible, they dont know what to watch....
list goes on
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
After a long hiatus I am back with some more abhorrent thghts
yesterday, the social wing of the police raided some cable guys,
They did not raid the DTH segment
The reason was that channels were airing adult content
Hmmm
All very nice
First we, in a democracy, have and I&B ministry, ever wondered why?
Second we have the police and people complaining and protesting everything that happens
And thirdly the sensible part of the nation remains mum, sensibly some say.
What is the problem with a democracy having a ministry that controls Information and Broadcasting?
Why should they, a democracy runs on the principle that people can make their own choices, right?
Well this simple fact is lost on the power hungry anal government.
The incessant protesting that goes on also amply reinforces this. I have made a choice now I want everyone else to live with it types.
See what happened to Da Vinci code, to salman rushdie’s books and now latest is Omkara.
Coke is another thing altogether. Government cannot do anything about the water that everyone drinks, but wants to ban cola that is consumed by so few (in India per capita consumption of colas is among the lowest in the world)
If the assumption that people can make informed choices on their own is wrong, then this democracy is all wrong, we need a dictatorship imposed on us. If they can choose their own leaders and this proves that they can actually make choices, then shouldn’t the people decide what they want to watch (adult, porn, davinci code etc), what they drink (cola, spirits, mahim sea water)… I don’t get it.
How come there were no bans on drinking the polluted mahim seawater, I wonder!!!!!
Indian’s love complaining and protesting, this is what the late pramod mahajan used to say, look how true it is. Some bugger is now complaining about abusive language in Omkara, just don’t watch, it used to be a free country, other people may like it
Hmmmm!
Guess have raved enuff for a day
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