I am sorry, How else can I take this home

Click on the image for a larger version (this photo is taken well inside the chennai city – Villivakkam)

This is a very common site, with Autoricksaw and trucks carrying long protruding objects in their vehicle. The above two images are an Auto carrying a long iron pole and where it came in contact with the Cable TV wire and finally winded on the pole. Leaving the TV channel viewers at pain.

I questioned my self, Why do they do it, when it might harm themselves and others.

Once I had to carry a tube light from a electrical shop to my home which is a KM away. All I had was my yamaha 135 bike, the shopkeeper took a role and tied one end of tube light to the rear end of my bike while the front portion was in between my right arm and my body. I thought for seconds, Am I doing this right. Then realized, India doesn’t have rules to stop you from carrying a tube light while riding and if at you are caught, you could still get away.

Well, honestly how many of you would have hired a larger vehicle to carry this tube light. Please do comment. Do say whether I did was right or wrong

One more Photo which I took long back , this one is near the Sruthi musicals Signal.

Chennai City – Lorry Traffic timings

Does any one have Info on Lorry Traffic, City entering timings?
I took the above photos yesterday evening at 6 PM on the opposite site of Koyambedu towards Thirumangalam road. I have noticing these days that there lot of heavy vehicles traffic from 6PM to 8:30 PM (well that was the timing I usually pass through these roads and have traveled once in the night at 1PM where there was hardly lorry traffic)

I guess chennai traffic police is liberal to lorry traffic. I remember days where there would be sign boards mentioning the entry timing for the Lorry traffic. Don’t know what happened to those.

Where to look for meter?

Recently had been to fill up the tank for my car and these people pulled down the filling jack from Air and said “Sir Check the Zero” I said I want petrol and not Diesel looking at the Meter close by.

Then they showed me one more meter right at the left top of the above image

I was shocked. I felt like an idiot.

The next time some one is pulling those pipes, do care ask where you have to look for, before assuming things.

One more thing you can note at the top image the bend in the pipe could hold atleast 50- 100 ml of petrol. So be careful.

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Truck traffic – so no right turn

If you wanted to go to Annanagar from Koyambedu. After 8 PM is a tough one, And the signal is for short duration of time, mostly it takes 3 signals to make the right turns as the truck drivers take the right lane and occupy the ongoing traffic who want to go AnnaNagar. I have been thinking, is there any way to communicate to the truck drivers that they are not supposed to take this lane, atleast who have common sense would avoid this lane.

Well the text need not say “Heavy Vehicles, No right turn” just the Icon representation is more than enough.

Here is my idea.

There is one more option, there are glow signboards on the median which can also say to truck drivers that they cannot take right turn.

What say?
Is this at least feasible, I see lots of private hoardings, will this one be afford ability problem for the chennai traffic police.

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