45 min in Traffic..

This is the time I take to cover the 4 km stretch from my place to work. Roughly calculated the average speed is about 5.33 kmh. That is the average speed a human walks. => I would reach office faster if I walked rather than used the marvels of human ingenuity ‘the motor bike’.

I put up with the travel every day.. mind you I am not a novice driver who takes it slow in traffic. I come from Hyderabad. “ If you can drive in Hyderabad then you can drive anywhere in the world” said Ajit(that’s me). For driving in Hyd is a true test of driving. Brownian motion was first observed by Robert Brown when he was on a holiday in Hyderabad. Traffic there follows no rules no conventions, the autos and the bikers are agitated particles proving the theory that the smaller the particle the more random it is.

Having roots in this tough and demanding school of driving and using all the fluid mechanics that I learnt in 4 yrs of engineering and also a little bit of vector math I try plotting the best possible way to get to work.

After all this BMC always comes up with some new shit. A new bridge coming up and roads promptly blocked and a few cops setting up a naka bandi hoping to catch Dawood probably. Traffic in India usually follows one basic rule –‘If there is space move in’ . One gets to see cars stuck bumper to bumper , door to door with a few autos busses and bike squeezed in to make the jam perfect. No one ever realizes that traffic moves a lot faster if it is widely spaced, for it always takes time to clear a jammed section and then traffic to move. India is one superstitious country, people end up believing every thing. Some actually believe that if they honk and honk the cars before them vanish. So you see people honking away to glory at stationary cars in a jam adding to the cacaophony of other noises in a jam.

Would have written a lot more on driving but thanks to some insider info .. found a short cut that cuts short my driving time to about 15 min..

Cant exactly complain right !!