Cool piece about the 2009 Mumbai Xpress stop in Bangalore.
Thirteen autos arrived yesterday evening to our school to park their autos and were to leave this morning at a flag-off from the school.
Bangalore isn’t the small town it used to be and the traffic, traffic rules and road-conditions make it an extremely ardous affair to navigate through! The rickshaws promptly lost their way in trying to reach the school from the map provided with two of them breaking down enroute!
Anyways, they all made it to the school, parked and made their way to the hotel for the night. Came back (hopefully refreshed) this morning to our school, after an introduction of our school, some speeches, a flag-off from the local MLA Mr. Ramalinga Reddy – they were off to Mysore.
They were directed to find their way to the NICE road and take a smooth exit out to Mysore road. Problem: on reaching there – found the NICE road is too upmarket for them and doesn’t permit autos on its carriageway.
So… all of them now were on their own – having to figure out how to get out of the city. Not easy, if you ask me.
The great thing about this challenge besides the fun for the participants is that they donate part of the money raised to projects like ours.
Full article here
