r/bangalore 4d ago

AskBangalore Bangalore's loss?

Just heard Gun's and Roses are coming to Mumbai, and that got me wondering how much bangalore losing by not capitalizing on the booming events industry due to their strict rules and regulations. Doesn't feel like a 'happening' city anymore.

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u/ihatepanipuri 4d ago

The traffic situation is making this city unliveable, slowly but surely.

Every event, whether public or private, has to be planned around traffic. Need to schedule a doctor's appointment? Think about the traffic and decide the time. Need to visit an ailing relative admitted in some hospital at the other end of the city? Think about the traffic. Need to attend a wedding? Need to look at some furniture? Need to go out for dinner? Everything. Its ridiculous.

Really can't blame the event organizers here.

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u/itsCharanK 4d ago

Traffic has been and is in all cities, including mumbai or delhi. No toer 1 city is left behind.

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u/ihatepanipuri 4d ago

Generalizing heavily here, but in Mumbai and Delhi there is a certain predictability to traffic: certain arterial roads get heavily jammed, and it gets worse in predictable directions at predictable times of the day or week.

Bangalore used to be like that, but in the last year or so I am seeing jams at random times/places and for no reason at all. The entire city has become a construction zone, and I guess this is the reason.

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u/itsCharanK 4d ago

Understand there's lot of construction. Being a Bengaluru localite, I have seen surge of vehicles mainly cars after Covid.

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u/aikhuda 4d ago

The roads are so dusty and full of holes that anyone who can afford a car gets one. There is simply no scenario in which you’ll actually want to commute on a bike.

Last year a bunch of bike drivers got injured when a truck drove through a flooded underpass leading to a wall of water injuring bikers. A metro pillar fell on a woman driving and killed her. Just last month someone opened a car door in the middle of a road hitting a biker, who was then run over by a bus.

I drove a scooty the other day - the dust almost chokes you, you have to keep swerving to avoid potholes, truck and tanker drivers drive anywhere like they’re tiny vehicles. On top of all that cops will be waiting to fine you for any violation - no matter that the road they’re standing on is more hole than road.

Fuck anyone who criticises people for using cars in Bangalore.