No LLMs were used to generate or refine the content of this post. This is not
to show apprehension towards LLM but to call out that for blog posts, I like to
write them myself. So all the thoughts, opinions are expressed by my brain
including any incorrect grammar, typos etc.
If I do use LLM assistance, I’ll add a call-out like this.
This post will be an always active post of pictures of some parking traffic violations. These are pictures that I have captured while walking to my work place in Indiranagar, Bengaluru.
Bangalore Traffic Police has an app, BTP ASTraM that I would highly recommend for the people Bengaluru to report traffic violations.
The BTP ASTraM app, by Bengaluru Traffic Police, provides citizens with real-time traffic updates, event alerts, accident and violation reporting, and access to important traffic news. It features an emergency SOS system, congestion alerts, and allows users to check and pay traffic fines.
My Rants
What makes me frustrated is that there’s an element of convenience even while breaking the law. I feel that people with these parking violations are opting for these places to also get convenience of proximity to their destinations (office, restaurants etc.). If they really want to be correct or thoughtful, they should park in more reasonable places but that might require some walking. But people got wheels for that.
You can argue that there is no parking space so what should people do? For this, my reasoning is that I am fighting my fight to have walkable streets and they should find their own forum to voice their no-parking-space problem.
You can also argue that people can adjust a little with the way car owners park by still leaving some space to walk (you’ll see some photos later in the post where there’s still space to walk on the footpath).
Sleeper Class (SL) in Indian Railways has artifically now become like the new General Class and AC 3 Tier has now become like the new Sleeper Class. It started with “adjusting”. I don’t want to deeper into the problem but there’s a common behavioral pattern to be expected as an outcome in a lot of situation here, to “adjust”. People only take undue advantage from there.
There’s an idiom in Hindi:
उँगली पकड़ते पहुँचा पकड़ना
which in English translates to “give an inch and they’ll take a yard” (not literally but in vibes).
Once people start being ok with one-off or reasonable adjustments, it soon becomes an acceptable (maybe forced or surrendered) pattern of day-to-day life. Accepting this “adjusting” way of state of things, you are already eliminating some patterns of life for some demographics.
For example: you won’t see old people with their walking sticks. You eliminate any possibility of people with strollers on the footpath and there are already multiple other reasons why it can’t safely happen anyway in the current state with this footpath-parking-problem just one of the many contributing parameter.
This rant may feel an overreaction to a small(?) problem but the tax deduction section of my payslips make me react this way.
These pictures are in reverse chronological order of when they were taken.