VIZAG matters - Sohan Hatangadi's Blog

Vizag’s roads are getting crowded by the day and what with frequent VIP visits it is never easy to keep our roads incident free. Our traffic police have a challenging job of keeping control without being overbearing. Generally speaking our drivers too are not over aggressive. They don’t go crazy with road rage, fifteen year old industrialist’s children in BMWs do not rampage around our streets and drunken actors don’t mow down labourers sleeping on pavements. They don’t show the finger, or wave their fists. In fact there is very little abusive language coming out of cars these days - with the air-conditioned and the windows up we just can’t hear them anymore. It is true that we Vizagites have a couple of stiff ones before heading home amiably from the belt shop and pay our fines quietly when caught by the ever vigilant police. While there is no empirical study Vizag drivers and riders are a civilized lot. However our city roads and our motorists have some remarkable eccentricities th...

In February 2014 Bangalore Mirror ran a series of public service ads along with a campaign asking for footpaths in Bangalore. In Vizag too there are no continuous running footpaths for pedestrians. We are forced to walk on the road along with the vehicular traffic and this situation endangers our lives. After we have parked our bikes or cars we need to walk some distance on a footpath to go to our destination - a shop or office or school. It's time we asked for basic footpaths. Those interested in this topic please contact me at sohan.hatangadi@gmail.com

Come with me on a wild drive through our crowded Dabagardens area. Here like in most of Vizag there is no room for pedestrians. Enjoy the drive!