Vehicles, urban chaos

India’s hi-tech city, Bengaluru, is also a metaphor for urban chaos. The city was once a peaceful abode for retired bureaucrats, with flower-bearing trees set along footpaths adding a special charm to its streets. The city grew by leaps and bounds in the past three decades on the back of the IT revolution that took the world by storm. Moving from one place to another in Bengaluru is now a huge ordeal because of the narrow roads and traffic snarls. The roads fail to cope with the heavy influx of vehicles. Today, everyone is blaming everyone else for the resultant chaos that marks the city. Business honchos are among the deeply distressed at t…