Public Transport

Conveyance is the word. !!
I always used to dream of the night life in a city, the disks the pubs and the late night buffets, but what to do? Here I am struck in the cement jungle where u got to have ur own conveyance to roam around. The public sector doesn’t offer anything , but the private sector does , they run bus service , I rather call them match boxes filled with twice the number of match sticks than its capacity , perhaps twice is also an understatement. The first thing that u hear in the bus journey is two people hanging out of the bus and shouting chapan chapan chapan (56 56 56 referring to sector 56) throughout the journey ,even if they know no one else can fit in the bus they over load it just to earn that extra 5 bucks . I almost travel in this bus at the same time everyday so do my fellow companions , I see the same middle aged man with his wife discussing some family issues in an unknown language , the same not so pretty wannabe air-hostess , the same college going students reading the same book everyday . They all are like my friends now , I spend this long 40 mins bus journey observing them , sometimes I even overhear what they discuss , (they are way to loud to even avoid) majority of the discussions involve employees bitching about there managers , wifes about their husbands and India about their cricket team . Trust me when I find it difficult to even breathe in the bus people are busy discussing every other topic in the news, I even saw some one discussing Obama and Clinton (was surprising)and ya how can forget the loud haryanwi songs played by my bus driver to add on to our frustration. I can’t avoid this journey the only best option I have is to take the company cab at 7 am or to take a private cab by shelling out 200 bucks. So in unavoidable circumstances I end up boarding the bus.
This is the case with buses ,Autos its even worse seven seaters are treated as seventeen seaters loaded with people all over! it won’t be surprising to see the driver inviting someone to sit in his lap while he is driving in the near future, for all the visionaries who feel that the nano can replace an auto in India they have to definitely give a second thought to this. I had this small but rather scary experience in a jeep , with people all over it trust me we were 30 people in an old armada with people hanging on its doors while the driver is driving at 80kmph , that’s the situation of public transport in the so called IT Hub of India , if the public really have the capacity to buy there own cars then why are these buses overloaded , there is a huge necessity for immediate action on this . Perhaps a private player itself needs to enter this market and make conveyance better. (might not win you a b'plan competition but definetly will give loads of business)

This is all reality I didn’t exaggerate any bit.

Reporting From Gurgaon
Bharat Bongu