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You want a short answer? Because he can and he knows there will be NO CONSEQUENCES for it. That is exactly the reason why THAR drivers drive the way they do. That is exactly the reason why we've got underage drivers killing people on a regular basis, because they know that there is a very HIGH PROBABILITY that they will get away with it.

I just want to ask, why?

@IndianGems_ Because CIVILIZATIONAL and CIVILIZED are two different things. We attribute too much pride and credit for the former, and too little importance to the latter.

How come Colombo made it, but not any Indian city?

@Khurpenchinfra Now you've hit the nail on the head. The government's job is to build, it's the people's responsibility to keep it clean. The ENTITLEMENT of most people calling out the government for not cleaning the mess that they themselves create is unreal!

When will we learn to keep things clean ?

@Benarasiyaa @NHAI_Official @nitin_gadkari @sumitlive @BJP4UP @CMOfficeUP This is unbelievable dangerous. The officials building these hazards should be suspended and the vendors blacklisted.

This not a service lane across a national highway but a death trap in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh. An electricity pole stands in the middle of the road posing life threat to commuters. @NHAI_Official @nitin_gadkari Video via @sumitlive

Unfortunately, the government is in perpetually crappy state of affairs. When we stop and question who is actually creating all this nuisance, who is throwing random garbage bags on the road. That hard look in the mirror is what we need to have before we can start changing the country meaningfully.

This, is the state of a service road just near Chandani Chowk in Bavdhan, Pune. Nothing has changed since the last 3-ish months that I have lived in this area. Lord knows when shall the authorities do something about it.

What is stopping Indian roads from becoming like this?

@RakeshK32229480 @narendramodi @MCF_Faridabad @VipulGoelBJP @KPGBJP @DC_Faridabad @BJP4India @BJP4Haryana @sbmpmuharyana @SwachhBharatGov @TeamSwachh

Sir @narendramodi sector 91 main road faridabad (palla ismailpur) road fall into Pakistan occupied area (poa) 🇵🇰🇵🇰 Due to this @MCF_Faridabad @VipulGoelBJP @KPGBJP @DC_Faridabad are unable to build road there 🙏🙏 Kindly free this area from pakistan then road construction might starts here

Barring Bangalore, Pune, and a few cities that have amazing weather, this is NOT AT ALL practical in Indian cities. I don't know if you've ever tried to cycle in Singapore. You won't find many cycle lanes there, and there's a very practical reason for it. Imitation is fine; I think it's the most amazing form of flattery, but imitation needs to be done logically. If you have two lanes for cycles in Gurgaon, I doubt that you'll find many cyclists in peak June summer trying to cycle their way to work. No matter how clean the cities are, no matter what happens, just because of the nature of how hot cities get. The reason as to why countries and cities can have cycle lanes is not just because they want to have cycle lanes but also because they can be used. If your weather does not permit, and there are geological factors outside a government's control, or outside any human control, to be honest, that prevent this from being a practical reality, at least in India.

It takes political leadership and guts to convert a 3 lane road into 1 lane for cars and 2 lanes for cycles. Thats when you know a politician cares about future and not next election vote bank.

@mshahi0024 @BJP4Haryana

Another day, another “Smart City” exposed by Gen Z. It does not matter if you build flyovers, metros, or multi corridors. Because beneath it all are piles of garbage, dirty and filthy roads with potholes. No excuses here, as BJP has been in MCD for 18 years.

I do complain about this on the Swachhta app. I found it to be pretty useful. A couple of weeks ago I went to Caban Park, and it was disgusting to even enter the park. I uploaded a picture. It took them a month, but I finally did get a response from the engineer saying it has now been cleaned, with an attached picture. Uploaded this. Let's see what happens. I would love to follow the journey of getting this cleaned up.

Fu#k bc how low and dystopian our cities can get faridabad agra canal @narendramodi sir if you have any guts terminate all babus and netas of faridabad 🙏🙏

You could say anything about anywhere in India, and it will be true and not true at the same time. I'm talking about a common generalization for the majority of the roads. I have seen roads in Rishikesh transformed from being one-lane, minuscule gullies in the name of national highways to two-lane, beautifully paved roads with dividers and trees. Of course, there are sections that are broken, and there are potholes. It's not perfect, and I don't think, in a country the size and scale that we are, everything ever will be. I also come from Rishikesh and have spent a few decades of my life in Dehradun. It is changing, whether we want to believe it or not. We can say that it's not changing fast enough; we can say that it's not perfect, absolutely is not. But let's not take away from the pride and hardwork of the selective few who have improved the situation in past couple of decades. The current government, particularly, is known for its corruption, especially in this kind of projects. Overall, it has changed for the better from when I was 10 years old and used to ride with my dad to go to my school 55 km away. It was a single-lane highway connecting Rishikesh and Dehradun, so from a major tourist destination to the capital of your state should not be a single-lane highway. It is not, fortunately, anymore; it's four lanes through and through. I have lived through those times, I have seen the widening of roads, the pavement of roads, the improvement in the quality of roads, and it's very palpable.

@managerofnull @murtipoojak I live in Dehradun and it’s not true

one thing that a lot of countries have solved is how to make roads look at these roads from a tiny town in Thailand in India we have not solved this haters will say that it is a touristy place in Thailand and that towns don’t look like this but this is actually a small town.. and Thailand gets a decent amount of rainfall is it really that hard to make good roads that last long? or is it just corruption? if it’s not corruption, then how come countries like Sri Lanka and Thailand has solved it?

Unfortunately, this seems like an oversimplification. It's not that the generation post-80s in India has lost their collective consciousness. It's just that, in Maslow's hierarchy, the ability to say no to an offer that you know can transform your family and your generations to come financially and provide security for them comes a lot higher in priority than the ability to build or feed a nation. When Lee Kuan Yew met Deng Xiaoping, one of the key questions he answered was: why did the socialist system not work? The socialist system did not work in China, in Russia, in the USSR, or anywhere else, because it prioritizes the collective, the country, before anything else. When given the choice at an individual level, everyone, almost 100% of the time, will decide to feed their family first. That kind of prioritization is what post-80s Indians, the ones that you talk about, have had to live through their entire lives. When you're given an opportunity to transform the financial well-being of your entire family tree, you take it; you don't pass it by, because you can continue being a farmer. This is the reason why people in Gurgaon have become as wealthy by selling lands as they have, because being a life where they are continuing to farm for generations for a very paltry paycheck and a huge payday, just for the fact that you've owned some land where some builder wants to build something, doesn't even compare to a civilization that has been tormented for hundreds of years, colonized for hundreds of years. When you see that opportunity, you take it, because we have lived generationally through a mindset of scarcity. Yeah, everyone and everything is up for sale for the right price. At the moment, this will reverse once everyone who has assets has reached a point where financial needs and financial security is no longer a burden for them and they have all seen so much prosperity within their lifetimes that they assume that there will always be a stable government and there will always be financial prosperity to go around. Until that is reached, which will be in a couple of generations, you better believe that this is the de facto standard.

@heynavtoor This is interesting. I wonder where they are manufacturing these PCBs, because I don't think writing code was ever the hardest part about manufacturing PCBs. It's the actual assembly and the quality control of that. Physical aspect is what makes it challenging.

🚨 Electrical engineers are going to hate this. Someone just turned React into a circuit board factory. Write code. Get a real PCB manufactured and delivered to your door. It's called tscircuit. React for Electronics. No Altium. No $10,000/year licenses. No 6-month learning curve. You write React components. But instead of अनुवाद

@murtipoojak @Somya_Crazy Well, surprisingly, most roads in Uttarakhand are also very much like this. They're well paved, they're well maintained, and they've been built to a good standard. The same, however, cannot be said for our national highways, unfortunately.

@Somya_Crazy Yes the main highways are top notch in Thailand. Driving from one province to another is really easy. Though going inside the real streets might make you remind India, though that happens rarely. 👇 this is from a small village in northern Thailand.

It has to be attributed to corruption. Unfortunately, we live in a society where corruption is not just existent but also the primary reason why most people want to get into the civil services. You know that you're not going to get great outcomes when the reason as to why someone is choosing to do public service is not building a nation or helping your country in any way, but to become part of a system that celebrates corruption and becomes part of a system that encourages corruption.

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