JVLR woes!!

When the Jogeshwari Vikhroli Link Road (JVLR) was being constructed, MMRDA told us that after the JVLR is built, travel from Eastern Express Highway (EEH) to Western Express Highway (WEH) will be in 20 minutes, that's right 20 minutes flat with no stoppages whatsoever!! Bullshit!! Today it takes anything from 1 hour to 2 hours to just traverse this link road connecting the eastern suburbs of Mumbai to the western suburbs. Still the Powai section of this road is bearable. It is when you cross the SEEPZ flyover that you run into humongous traffic jam, all the way to the WEH. It just simply stops, crawls, stops, sputters, stops. There are so many traffic signals, so many criss crosses that one simply gets bored at this stretch. Nowadays it seem the Aarey road has been blocked ostensibly for a fallen bridge during the August 29 downpour, but who knows what is the real reason ? It doesn't take that much time for repair of a bridge. 

violation at traffic signal

Today when i was coming to office by BEST bus, the bus stopped at a  traffic signal well before the parallel lines before the zebra crossing. There was one motorbike also similarly standing before the bus but well within the zebra crossing line. Whereupon comes one other motor biker from behind and he was constantly honking to the other motor biker to go ahead. But the guy in front totally refused to go ahead. Again the biker came and shouted at the front biker to move ahead. Whereupon the first biker told him of the zebra crossing rule and pointed to the CCTV installed up there on the opposite side. Some altercation took place between the two, the second biker moved ahead regardless. We were watching all these from the BEST bus. There's compliance for you, technology in the form of CCTV forces compliance on some, but some do not bother. I am sure the second biker comes into the category of people who will not pay the traffic challan at all when it is automatically issued on the basis of his violation of the specific rule.