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The city diaries 3: Spare the kids!

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In my last blog post I tried to explain how difficult it is to drive on Bangalore roads, mostly because of the attitude of drivers and riders, along with the ongoing construction works. On the brighter side, I observe some sensibility is still prevailing among approximately 60% of private car owners and among 10% of the public transport vehicle drivers, which is a relief. However the root cause is lack of traffic awareness and taking safety on roads for granted. In simpler terms, a vehicle will not slow down at intersection thinking that the vehicle coming from the small road should slow down, and simultaneously the same thought process is happening with vehicle's driver coming from the small road too. Fortunate that we do not have accidents proportional to the number of fools on the road. One point I missed out when I was writing about the traffic problems turned out to be one of the most important issues, the kids. They just started living their life and they live according to...