First, we were all tired of the heat and were praying for rain. Today, it finally rained, and I felt happy, but within a few hours, that happiness turned into frustration.
It usually takes around 10-15 minutes for me to reach home from the office, but it took 70-80 minutes today. The roads were completely packed, everyone was in a hurry, people coming from left and right, everyone honking in-short, complete chaos. The cherry on top was the cab drivers and delivery partners. Cab drivers always have to go first, and the delivery partners don't follow any rules, they will drive on the wrong side, over the footpath, and literally take any wrong turns. The worst part was that there was no traffic cop to manage the traffic. I see them daily finding people who are not wearing helmets, but today I guess everyone was enjoying the rain. After all this struggle, you reach home and see there is no electricity for hours. After Bescom, it's Airtel, there's no use of Wi-Fi power backup because one drop of rain and it will stop working.
In my 10 years in this career, I have seen so many things change on the tech side, and now we have AI, which is replacing humans. However, we still haven't been able to solve this traffic issue. It's 2026, and we still can't solve this bare minimum issue. I'm really not sure where our tax money is going, and it's not even just a Bangalore issue, but India-wide problem.
While I was stuck in traffic, I kept wondering what if someone needed emergency service? Maybe not a life-or-death situation, but what if you needed to go to the hospital? You can't get a cab, taking out your car is impossible, and bike is dangerous because of potholes (I face this daily). So what can normal people do in these situations? Corruption is destroying all of India. On the other side of the world, people are fighting to come out on top, be it in infrastructure or tech, but here we are still stuck in traffic. 😭