It doubles when it is spread…

I’m definitely not referring to knowledge here. I'm talking about a private player who does not really care about his own city mates. This truck is carrying a load of sand, butwithout any protective gear around it to prevent it from spreading. Hey - this could disturb the visibility of other road users - and think what might happen if one motarist fails to watch this poperly!!! Well - there cannot be one policeman for each such incident. But my plea to all my fellow chennia ites would be to consider this not as a burdern but responsibility - we are maturing guys - let us show it to everyone.

Don’t think twice – don’t care….

This was a pathetic picture taken from just outside my house. Some damn genius decided to dump construction material right on the entrance that leads to our small little colony. Did he/she ever think it would be difficult for more than 30 families inside the colony to navigate? Quite understandably, NOT!!! Well, I really cannot understand where such indiscriminate disregard to some 30 families comes from? Could it from the fact the he is part of the “Sarkari Babu” network. Or could be because he is paying some overgrown good for nothing pigs more popularly called “rowdies” – maybe I’m dramatizing things, but this is what contractors popularly use right. Well – all this can change only when the more popular red tapism and government employee raj ends in India.

Roads or Bridges… Bane of Chennai

I had a marked in one of my previous posts that roads are constructed on top of existing roads and this is creating problems (Of Roads and Constructions…). Please see another example below. This photograph was taken from just outside my office at Guindy Industrial estate. Hmm… looks like most of my posts are around guindy itself. But looking at it form another perspective, if guindy alone can be so interesting to raise so many posts, extrapolating the whole scenario to Chennai only make me feel that not many people really give a damn to the society.

Monster on Wheels...

The title is maybe misleading. This is not a monster on wheels… this is a monster on trails. And I'm not talking about one of the army tanks that parade through during republic day or Independence Day. These are trucks that are supposed to aid in construction activities. I really don’t know what this machine is.

Chennai roads are not made to even stand monsoons. So, its anybody's guess what will happen to these roads in case such monsters travel through. This is what happens... This machine is literally pealing the roads apart.

And we just go back to the "authorities" and say they are not doing a good job. Well... can the authorities follow every damn activity that is happening. If all departments had that kid of manpower, then trust me, India would never face a job crisis and we don’t ever need FDI's to run the country. The only thing that can then happen is, everyone must rise up and do what they can to protect the system they are part of. And the best way to protect it... would be to follow it. If this bloody contractor follow the system - then the roads would be saved (atleast till the next monsoons), if the contractor who laid the roads follow the system - then we would have more navigable roads, if the person responsible for such operations follows the rules, then the contractors would have their jobs cut. And it just goes on and on and on.

A Crater?? A Golf hole?? No...its a manhole!!!

Want to play golf? With a much bigger hole? Don’t join any club and waste money - hit the Chennai roads - its free for all here.

This is a picture taken from one of the by lanes of Guindy industrial estate. There is a manhole (rather a crater big enough to topple a motorist) right in the middle of the road. Yeah I know - why cant the motorists find their way around this would be the question - but leaving it like is definitely not an answer. What about cars?? Well, choosing another road is a possibility, but again, leaving it like this is not an answer. Is closing a manhole so costly in Chennai?? Is it so difficult in anyway?? This manhole is open for at least 3 weeks now. And the escapists would say they did not receive any complaints. Do they need a complaint to do every damn job of theirs?? So if this has to be corrected only after a complaint, is leaving the manhole open OK by the rules then??

I generally feel (and everybody contributing to this blog too feel the same way) that change has to come from within before we start pointing out changes to the system. But Honestly, change has to come from "within the people" who run the system before we try to change the system itself.