TRAFFIC JAM!!!!! x-(

Arghhhhhhhhhhh!!! I hate traffic jams!!! Being my usual self, I crib a lot to my poor dear husband each day we’re stuck in the traffic, meaning, everyday :-
For a change, I thought I’d spare him for today by cribbing here!

Somehow, I’ve began to hate people who commute by four wheelers all alone adding to the traffic woes. Each day I have to pass through this 1km stretch of miserable traffic, the bottle neck being a tunnel like underpass below the railway tracks. At a time, only two cars can pass through the tunnel and I see a minimum of hundred cars queued up to pass through it! To my surprise, most of the cars carry only one person! Even elephant sized vehicles like scorpio and innova! x-(

Assuming all these people start from the same place and go to the same place (might be a hypothetical situation, but most of the people being software engineers, we can expect that this is quite possible!), if each car is filled up, only one fourth of those number of cars would be on that road! And imagine how much fuel is saved!
During my routine cribbing session, my husband told me that in the US, there are lane systems and people who are car pooling can go on the fastest lane and so, people tend to pool the car most of the time. When I’ve just begun to think about that way of enforcing people to use pooling, ‘knock, knock’ my mind said, “We are in India Dear”!!!! Option ruled out!!! :(

Only option is that people become more responsible towards environment, towards society!
Most of these people being s/w engineers, don’t they know what car pooling is, and what its advantages are? People use internet even to search for a simple recipe, why don’t they use it for purpose like this? Why do people shy away from their social responsibilities? I agree, there are lots of complexities involved with car pooling but when people can manage to catch up with each others timings and go out with friends, why can’t they do it for a good cause? I’ve seen so many s/w engineers join organizations like Green peace, but what are we doing at the grass root level. Paying money to an organization isn’t everything when you add your share of pollution to the environment, be it air or sound! People honk and honk when you can see that the whole road is jammed up! I have no clue why they do that! They might be doing it to vent out their frustration but, that’s no solution! I guess my first blog talks about being a part of the problem, or being a part of the solution! Unless there is a change in people’s attitudes, no body can help situations like this!

Just one simple search in Google led me to so many sites which help us manage pooling. Some of the links are here:
http://www.carpooling.in/search/regular/in-Hyderabad
http://www.hyderabadcarpool.org/Offers.html

If at all there are people who are lone commuters in car among my readers, I urge you to use car pooling! Please, let us help ourselves! Lets save the environment! Pleaaaaaaaaase Pleaaaaaaaaase!!!