Bangalore Diaries - Part 1!
- The way the private transport works here in Bangalore
is so different. It’s going to take lots of time for me to understand it.
In Chennai we used to have specific numbers for each route and we had to
take that one bus only in the morning and evening. In Bangalore even
though you are tagged to one bus route, it seems with that bus pass you
can take any of the office buses and if you get the extra bus pass id, you
can use in the normal bmtc Volvo buses also which is super cool! But this
has a flip side. For some one new and getting in the bus from one of the
crowded bus stops, it’s very tough to stop any one of those office buses
and since daily you end up taking a different number thanks to the
Bangalore traffic which ensures bus don’t come on the designated time, you
can’t even befriend the drivers to ensure they wait in the bus stop!
- If office bus pass is one story, the 2 days that I have
been waiting for the bus, I have seen a very interesting trend. The place
where I wait for the bus, I find lots of other people waiting and there
are so many of these private shuttles and cabs which keep stopping. They
have something written in kannada and some indication and the folks
waiting ask for some stop and based on the response get into it. Am yet to
figure out what kind of transport they are and when you have so many bmtc
buses connected from the same stop why would people wait for these cabs
and keep asking and getting in!
- Chivalry is still not lost overall. Couple of weeks
back, I started taking the office bus which is common bus for many companies
in the office campus. Yesterday after I got into the bus (first time
boarding the office bus), one of the guys got up so I took the seat and
after I sat down I realized that he was not getting down (obviously since
its same last stop! K) and he got up to give me the seat! Next day, I was
more aware of the surroundings, when I got in as usual the bus was full.
After some 5mins, I almost lost the balance thanks to the sudden brake.
One of the guys after that offered his seat but then this time I refused
knowing that all of them were travelling from such far distance and for me
it was 20 mins distance only which I can afford to stand!
- For someone who has lived 1st in dry heat
weather where the 4 weather seasons were properly differentiated (summer,
rainy , spring and winter) and then in Chennai where there are only 3
seasons ( hot, hotter and hottest) ; Bangalore weather though nice on the
outset seems very ridiculous. Morning as you wake up cool breeze is there
and by the time one starts for office, it’s quite warm and afternoon hot.
By evening one day it’s still warm and the other day it’s raining like
hell. Totally unpredictable weather. Now I understand when couple of
people had told me they could not adjust to Bangalore weather. I just hope
it’s not the same case for me!
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