WELCOME TO THE ROADS OF HYDERABAD...
"SPEED"...a word that goes very well with "a Hyderabadi" with the same ease as bread would go with butter.
Every hyderabadi is in a haste for something or the other. A chance encounter with a typically busy hyderabadi road will give you an insight into what i'm trying to say. A typical hyderabadi road looks something like a disoriented picture painted by a novice who has little or no sense of order. Be it a cycle speeding off in the narrow passage between two RTC buses or vehicles zooming past pedestrians in the wrong direction on a one way road...when it comes to the roads of hyderabad, you find it all...anything's possible anytime.
And then again....we have the legendary 'traffic-jams', where the situation stands true to its name...totally jam-packed...
and...the "fly-overs" oops!...the stop-overs i mean!
Kids rush for their cartoons, housewives for their soap operas, youngsters for their movies or exams, twenty-five somethings for their new found jobs, elders for their doctor's appointment...whatever may be the reason...rushing is important here. It doesn't even matter if you haven't got anything to do at your destinations...the rule of thumb goes "he's rushing. Let's rush too...".
And to abide by this rule, people do all sorts of weird stuff like honking their horns at a red signal, zooming past a cursing traffic police when the traffic light flashes red, squeeeezing into narrow places between vehicles just to get ahead of others. And there's always a very hilarious episode going on at the signal line. It's as if an Olympic race is about to begin. People keep raising their accelerators and inch forward crossing the line waiting for the signal to turn green and also at the same time not allowing their fellow travelers to get past their own vehicle. They'll easily be on the other end of the road if the traffic signal flashes red for more than a minute.
Then again traveling is the sole goal as far as the people are concerned no matter the road exists or not...It's quite common for the roads to be dug up for laying of various cables etc...and once such potholes are dug...the officials conveniently forget to cover them up as the people themselves do it for them....they just keep riding over such roads regularly and one day, the road is leveled out to perfection. Thanks to the poor road quality and heavy rains, the roads almost always have potholes and loose gravel even if not dug on purpose.
Surely, there's a need for speed but for the right things- like development of the traffic conditions and quality of road.
And then again....we have the legendary 'traffic-jams', where the situation stands true to its name...totally jam-packed...
and...the "fly-overs" oops!...the stop-overs i mean!
Kids rush for their cartoons, housewives for their soap operas, youngsters for their movies or exams, twenty-five somethings for their new found jobs, elders for their doctor's appointment...whatever may be the reason...rushing is important here. It doesn't even matter if you haven't got anything to do at your destinations...the rule of thumb goes "he's rushing. Let's rush too...".
And to abide by this rule, people do all sorts of weird stuff like honking their horns at a red signal, zooming past a cursing traffic police when the traffic light flashes red, squeeeezing into narrow places between vehicles just to get ahead of others. And there's always a very hilarious episode going on at the signal line. It's as if an Olympic race is about to begin. People keep raising their accelerators and inch forward crossing the line waiting for the signal to turn green and also at the same time not allowing their fellow travelers to get past their own vehicle. They'll easily be on the other end of the road if the traffic signal flashes red for more than a minute.
Then again traveling is the sole goal as far as the people are concerned no matter the road exists or not...It's quite common for the roads to be dug up for laying of various cables etc...and once such potholes are dug...the officials conveniently forget to cover them up as the people themselves do it for them....they just keep riding over such roads regularly and one day, the road is leveled out to perfection. Thanks to the poor road quality and heavy rains, the roads almost always have potholes and loose gravel even if not dug on purpose.
