1.) The
Hosur Road
Jam - Unarguably, the mother of all jams. People proud of being associated with great companies (Infosys, Wipro, HP, TCS, Siemens, and the list continues….) are equally proud of contributing in no small extent to this jam. This jam gives a great glimpse of the Other India - colorful music-blaring in the interstate buses, garment factory workers, highway trucks, smoke spewing Lorries, and so on. This one provides ample food for thought for socialist minds. (Rating: 1/2)
2.) Koramangala/Forum Mall Jam - These jams are definitely the best jams in town. PYTs (Pretty young things), fancy cars, and fancy restaurants; this has it all. But you can't afford any of those. Never mind!! Your sadistic brain can take pleasure in the fact that the guy in the fancy car next to you is cruising around for a parking space, feasting his eyes on the PYTs, while his family is having dinner in one of the fancy restaurants. (Rating: 1/2)
3.) The KG Road Jam - To be experienced in the evenings before a long weekend. Every auto/taxi in town seems to be stuck while going towards the City Railway Station - your hair stands on end, you start sweating, the heart beats faster, and you get the rush that Michael Schumacher gets on his last lap. And just as the auto moves, a movie show ends and a few hundred more vehicles pour out... Which was the train that hooted just now?? (Rating: 1/2)
4.) The Jayanagar Jam – This is the puzzle-lovers jam; Jayanagar is maze of by-lanes, one-way streets, no right-turns, no left-turns, traffic signals, and what not. It is an established fact that in Jayanagar, Point A to point B can be reached in 6436 distinct ways. But whichever way you take, you are left with a hollow feeling that another route had a better and bigger jam? (Rating: **1/2)
5.) Marathahalli/Whitefield
Jam- The IT professional's dream jam; as s/he sits in the office shuttle looking at other office buses, s/he can make career plans. A typical evening in this jam goes thus: Voice from Company A bus: "Any J2EE developers in your bus?". Three guys from Company B bus respond "Yeah" and get down. By the time, the bus crosses the Marathahalli Bridge, the first guy is hired as a J2EE developer. The second guy, who didn't know what J2EE meant, is hired as a Project Manager and the third guy is rejected as he realized late that he has already worked for Company A last year. (Rating: )
6.) The
Airport Road
Jam - Similar in taste and character like the Koramangala /Forum Mall jam but has socialist twist. This jam treats the rich businessman, who will later travel business class on Jet, in the same way as it treats a poor programmer, who had unusually come to office early in the morning, 3 months back, to buy one of those cheap airline tickets. (Rating )
7.) The BTM 7th Main-7 Cross Jam - Close to my home, so close to my heart. But alas, the spoilsports at BDA finished the flyover at the Jayadeva circle and brought an end to this jam. But for a couple of years, when the flyover was under construction, this jam used to give me pure joy as vehicles of all types created a tangle in the small bylanes of BTM layout. The BDA is now planning a new flyover at the Udupi Garden junction; so there is still hope. (Rating 1/2).
8.) KR-Puram Jam- Evergreen Jam. Come what may. Who can stop this!!! Sort of a daily dose… Nothing to think about…only sleep..ZZzzzzzzzzzzz....
We jam lovers - have petitioned the government to protect and preserve traffic jams as a cultural asset of Bangalore. Just so that traffic jams are not endangered in the future, we have these suggestions:
1.) Build more flyovers - Flyovers do not reduce jams. They just transfer it to the next junction. And in the 2 years that it takes to build them, you are assured of some joyous jams. I am drooling...
2.) No public buses -If everybody goes by buses, where will our culture go?
3.) Tax Free Cars - Make Tata's 1-Lakh car cheaper by making it tax free - Imagine every two wheeler replaced by a car...The prospects are too good and mouth-watering.
PS:Dear Bangaloreans, do leave your comment and share your views on this post. I am in Bangalore for the past two years and have already felt a deep association with this email. I am imagine the state of hardcore Bangaloreans…
