The New York Public Transport System wasn\u2019t an easy lay either! Watch the layers of poking fun in the picture below! The cartoon spits apathy! <\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been for long, wanting to have a conversation without \u2018baggage\u2019. Not literally. I wanted to talk to someone who I knew well enough to want to talk to, but not so well enough to guess what they\u2019d say in response. I got the opportunity one Sunday morning in Singaara Chennai!<\/p>\n
This post is not about the morning. It\u2019s about one thought I had during that conversation. That \u2018we, in urban India, live in an era of infrastructure development\u2019. Too bad for us! But no denying that we do!<\/p>\n
Bangalore traffic sucks, Metro is unnecessary, flyovers are badly planned, there is no parking space, blah, blah and more blah. I am not going to deny any of that. I don\u2019t know enough. But I do know this is the era of infrastructure development for the country (mostly urban India). The trouble we go through while a flyover is being built is like packing and unpacking while moving houses. It is indeed hassling, but it\u2019ll be worth it in the end. <\/p>\n
If we are going to compare ourselves with the Londons and the New Yorks of the world, we should also consider that their days of infrastructure development are over (well, almost). If we imagined the London Underground was a smooth transition, we are terribly mistaken. They all cried foul<\/a> as early as in 1850s. \u2018The Tube\u2019 was called an \u201cinsult to common sense\u201d.<\/p>\n The New York Public Transport System wasn\u2019t an easy lay either! Watch the layers of poking fun in the picture below! The cartoon spits apathy! <\/p>\n
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