The 1-lakh car is not going to do good to this city atleast. The Bengaluru roads will never be able to accommodate them. But now an average middle class family will be able to afford a car. It will certainly lead to a traffic mess. People who can afford cars already own one and we cannot deny the until now unprivileged class the right to buy the cars. I can see a lot of people who own cars commenting nastily about it , thinking hard on how peer pressure, status symbol and other reasons which tempt people to go for cars. These are the same reasons why these privileged men and women bought their cars too and now refuse to step out of their homes without a car. Public transportation might not help you achieve faster commute, but I don’t believe that one is always in a hurry to reach somewhere. It would be good if the citizens of this city could atleast give the other modes of transportation a try. Yes, you’ll crib a few times, but then for a mass transportation system one will have get used to it than the system getting used to us.

I am worried about this city. I hear that the Nanda Road tree pruning has started. An *official* figure of 136 trees will soon vanish. If they are gone, we’ve have failed as city.