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Deadly Queens road and around!

People passing Queens road circle and Cunningham road definitely know the pain involved, either commuting in 2/4 wheeler or by walk! Here are few simple steps that can bring super smiles to millions of people!! 1. A nice pedestrian sky-walk / foot-over-bridge in the Queen's Circle signal. This bridge can be in a super pentagonal shape, connecting all the 5 roads part of this signal. This signal witnesses lot of pedestrian movement, especially in the peak office hours! 2. Crossing Cunningham road, just from one side to another is a real pain; need to wait sometimes for 5-10minutes to cross this road, moreover this crossing is not that safe as vehicles can speed up any moment once they see free road ahead! So, multiple skywalks will make justice here! 3. To reach Cunningham road from KR Circle, one needs to wait at 2 signals whose time limit is more just for one particular lane! - The Infantry Road signal, one way each amounts to lot of waiting for people on both sides. A super fl...

I want an AIR HORN for my vehicle!!

You are waiting in a traffic signal in your 2/4 wheeler. The timer in the signal is still showing 15 seconds and coming down. When the timer approaches 10 seconds, you can hear the vehicles engine rearing to zoom ahead. This is fine, but once the signal turns green, you are honked from behind as if you are not moving even though you got green signal! Another common scenario is of traffic jam. Even though everybody are struck in the jam, some brilliant fellow keeps honking as if everybody are just standing on the road just because they love that road and that spot!!! So idiotic people are...:-) Another scene is of which I daily encounter in my office commute route. I commute on a flyover that is a very nice 2-way 2.7kms long flyover connecting Mysore Road to Townhall circle. Here, people zoom across just like they are flying!! (including me :-D) But the bad and the irritating part is continuos honking by some lack-of-nerves people. I too zoom off when the road is clear ahead of me b...