Sounds like a dream doesn’t it?
This is how the city of Bangalore looked on friday. It was a peaceful drive for people going to work, where they didn’t have to put up with loads of autos taking mysteriously shaped turns without the slightest warning. If this is what is a ‘partial strike’ is, I can’t help imagining what a complete strike would feel like.
Indeed, I do sympathize with people who heavily depend on this service, but as obvious as this may sound, auto drivers will put everybody else to shame when it comes to showing absolute zero-conscience contempt for traffic rules. This really bites. The use of hand signals or indicators is non existent. A person riding behind an auto is left doing perpetual guesswork about when, where and what exactly the auto fella is going to do. You bump into him (forget who is in the wrong), the ‘Auto Driver’s Guild’ goes into session faster the deployment of the SWAT team.
The reason and agenda for the strike is as follows.
1. To increase minimum fare to Rs 20 and price per km to Rs 10, owing to increase in LPG prices.
2. Protest against increase in LPG prices.
The beauty of the above statements lie in the fact that they complement each other rather very nicely!
At the end of it all, I hope that the government doesn’t give in and we get to have free tension free drives everyday.
