B’lore techies volunteer to put road sense into violators

CITIZEN AWAKENING: A group of engineers try to tackle Garden City's traffic madness.

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Bangalore: Abhishek Yadav is just getting into his new role. Thrice a week he joins his techie friends on Garden City’s Inner Ring Road to tackle the traffic madness.

“One day my friends and I were sitting and complaining about what is happening to Bangalore traffic. So we decided that it’s time to stop talking and do something,” Abhishek says.

That set off a group of eight software engineers to volunteer as traffic wardens, who are now out to enforce rules at three major traffic junctions. Every morning and evening, they take out four hours to help out traffic police.

Initially they faced a lot of resentment but they've found that violators eventually fall in line.

Interestingly, none of the engineers are from Bangalore but they're committed to help the city that adopted them.

“We've seen traffic in the US and other countries. We want to see the same in Bangalore,” Preeti Thakur Yadav — one of the techie traffic wardens — said.

The outcome so far has been encouraging.

“There is an improvement in the traffic situation since last week,” Gauri Mahagaonkar, another volunteer, added.

But the one thing that they've all learnt in the last ten days: “They (traffic violators) are least bothered about fines or rules,” volunteer Navjit Das said.

The techie traffic wardens say you shouldn't take the law into your own hands but here are a bunch of people who've shown that every small step goes a long way.