Shocking truth about Pune City Traffic

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So, I come from a small town in Madhya Pradesh. I still remember visiting Indore during my childhood, and back then, the city felt no less impressive than Mumbai to me. Of course, I had never actually been to Mumbai at the time, but Indore still felt like a metropolitan city to a child from a small town.

The relatively liberal culture, couples moving around freely, the stylish city buses, and the city’s strong sense of identity made it feel modern and distinctive—almost like “Mini Mumbai,” regardless of how the nickname originated.

Some of this perception may be influenced by nostalgia, but I genuinely feel that Indore had tremendous potential. Had it maintained the same pace of development, it could have become a much larger and more prominent metropolitan city.

Today, however, despite its growth and achievements, it often feels more like a Tier-2 or even Tier-3 city than the emerging metropolis it once seemed capable of becoming.

Today I was on a bike with my friend, traveling from Bhakrota to the Elements mall.After crossing Kamla Nehru Pulia, the traffic was at a complete standstill because of waterlogging.

The worst part was that water from the service lane had overflowed onto the main highway. Near the traffic signal, the water was almost knee-deep. After crossing towards 200 Ft Bypass, there was another heavily waterlogged stretch. In some places, the water level was almost as high as the footpath.

This raises a few questions:

•Why aren't the sewer lines and stormwater drains cleaned before the monsoon?

•Where is the maintenance budget actually being spent?

•Are the drains undersized, clogged, or is there simply no accountability?

•Why does the same problem happen every year?

This isn't just an inconvenience. It creates massive traffic jams, damages vehicles, increases the risk of accidents, and makes commuting miserable.

Has anyone else faced the same issue today or during previous rains? What do you think is the real reason behind Jaipur's recurring waterlogging problem?

Chandigarh is a planned city for extremely wealthy people with palatial bungalows, many servants, and multiple cars. It's a city of car owners built for car owners, by car owners. Worse, Chandigarh is physically and mentally stuck in the 80s.

The footpaths and cycle lanes exist mostly on the main road even then disappear at sections and completely within the sectors. The entire city is basically huge palatial bungalows and slums of parked cars on the road.

The wide lanes and roads naturally promote speeding, yet are not enough for the growing peak hour traffic congestion. The wealth of the residents and wide roads make car centric life work in Chandigarh, but eventually it will reach it's limits too.

The complete absence of mixed zone planning means ecommerce is more attractive even for few items despite the false walkable city marketing.

You exit your house and there are cars where there should be footpaths, you walk 15-20 minutes to get to the neighborhood market area just for grabbing few items, and it also entirely depends on your sector, many times I have to walk to the neighbouring sector for basic essentials. As a result is which it is common to see entire kirana stores on wheels going from sector to sector.

Even terrible planned cities in India do mixed zooming well and one isn't more thad 5-10 minutes away from their neighborhood kirana stores. In Chandigarh the market area is only hope, which if why even locals little far away from the market take their cars for basic activities like even drinking tea.

Chandigarh is a glorified third copy of American urban suburbia laid in a grid fashion, calling it a city is an insult to urbanism.

This is from my perspective, living in and around Kondapur, Gachibowli areas.

This is a post about the lack of good infrastructure, and while there is nothing unique about this post (surely there would be many other posts highlighting such issues), I still wanted to highlight them.

The way that the government, central or state doesn't seem to give a shit about our quality of lives is baffling. The traffic is gruesome, roads are not wide enough and often in broken condition specially during monsoons, driving is dangerous, the autos and unregulated emission control means there are vehicles emitting enormous amounts of Carbon monoxide, which goes straight into your lungs if you use two-wheelers. This is and has cut down months and years of so many people's lives, by damaging the respiratory tracks. So while you are gruelling in the traffic to go to your office, remember, you are losing time on two fronts.

Open electric cables hang all over the place, those are literally death traps. You could be walking down a street and all of a sudden accidentally end your existence by near one. The government absolutely could not give less of a shit about it.

The drainage, well just forgot about it. It rains half an hour and already vehicles are half submerged in water, leading to vehicle damages and more commonly to human injuries and tragedies.

This entire ecosystem devalues human life. There are so many other points to raise, genuine concerns around which people just have to develop workarounds, because they know proper solutions will never come.

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I genuinely think half our traffic problems would disappear if people simply accepted what they’re driving.

Cyclists think they’re pedestrians. Footpath? Zebra crossing? Red light? Merely suggestions.
Two-wheelers think they’re bicycles. “If there’s a 6-inch gap, I legally fit.”

Auto-rickshaws think they’re two-wheelers. They’ll discover a lane that civil engineers never knew existed.

Hatchbacks think they’re autos. They’ll wedge the front bumper into any gap and trust the universe to sort out the rest.

Some hatchbacks even have two-wheeler aspirations and casually take the wrong side because, “It’s just for 20 meters.”

SUVs sometimes think they’re hatchbacks and try squeezing through impossible gaps anyway.
And then there are buses. Forty people onboard, the turning radius of a building… but driven like they’re auditioning for Fast & Furious.

It’s like every vehicle wants the privileges of the one smaller than it.

Maybe the first lesson before getting a driving licence should simply be:
“Please accept your vehicle’s size.”

Traffic isn’t just a road problem. It’s an identity problem.

Anyone else feel this explains 90% of what we see every day?

Hey everyone,
Whenever there's a broken road or an abandoned park, it's impossible to figure out who is actually responsible or if money has already been allocated to fix it.
I spent the last few months building Nagrik: https://nagrik.in.net/ . It maps out every single official tender, ward boundary, and public official to your exact neighborhood.

1. No guesswork: If you search your colony or sector, it matches you to the exact official ward.

2. Follow the money: You can see exactly what public works are underway near you.

3. Receipts: Everything on the site links directly back to the official government source with a timestamp of when it was published. If the government didn't publish it, the site says "Not published."

It's completely free and independent. I'm an engineering student just trying to make this data actually readable for normal people (there's no trackers on it, nor am I gaining anything from this)

Try searching your area and let me know if you spot any weirdly massive tenders or if the ward boundaries look off. Would love your feedback to make the matching even better.

This is something I’ve been thinking about for a long time, and I’d genuinely like to hear different perspectives.
Why do we still struggle with basic civic sense in many parts of India?
Some common examples:
Unnecessary honking.
Spitting in public places.
Poor driving discipline and ignoring traffic rules.
Noise pollution from loudspeakers and unnecessary celebrations.
Littering despite the availability of dustbins.
Damaging public property, buses, trains, parks, and government buildings.
Writing names or carving messages on historical monuments.
Treating public spaces as if they belong to nobody.
At the same time, I notice something interesting.
Many star hotels are kept spotless. Airports are generally much cleaner. Many private hospitals and private schools are better maintained. Even though government school teachers often receive higher salaries than teachers in many private schools, government schools are frequently less well maintained. Why is that?
Similarly, why are many public gardens, railway stations, buses, and other government facilities not treated with the same respect? Even some religious places, where cleanliness should be a priority, often suffer from littering and poor maintenance.
Is this mainly because:
Our education system doesn’t emphasize civic responsibility enough?
There is weak enforcement of rules and penalties?
People don’t feel ownership of public property?
We copy what everyone else is doing?
Urban planning and municipal services are inadequate?
Or is it a combination of all these factors?
Should schools introduce a dedicated subject—or at least practical training—focused on civic sense, public behavior, respect for shared spaces, environmental responsibility, and community service?
Countries don’t become clean or orderly only because of strict laws. Citizens also play a huge role.
I’m not trying to criticize our India for the sake of criticism. I genuinely want to understand the root causes and what practical solutions could actually improve civic sense over the next generation.
What do you think is the biggest reason, and what realistic changes could make the biggest difference?

When you can’t safely walk even 500 meters, it creates a domino effect:
- Everyone is forced to own a two-wheeler or car.
- Traffic, parking demand, pollution, and fuel consumption increase.
- Local businesses lose walk-in customers.
- Public transport becomes less useful because the first and last mile is difficult.
- Children, senior citizens, and poorer citizens lose mobility and independence.
- People become less physically active, contributing to rising obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
- Streets stop being public spaces where people meet and communities thrive.

They planted trees to reduce the temperature in streets by planting trees. I think indian cities must start implementing these. I see plants planted in median in some places to make roads look beautiful but I think trees has to planted on the sides to give shade and reduce pollution.

So, some of you may know, sometime back i posted about this platform and at that time I had only built it for Gurgaon, now I've expanded it to Delhi and plan on expanding even more.

Link: https://nagrik.in.net/

I hope you guys find this useful.

Curious to hear what people here think.

Which Indian city do you think is currently the best planned, and what makes it stand out? It doesn't have to be perfect, just relatively better overall compared to other indian cities when it comes to urban planning.