Love filtered coffee in Bangalore
After getting up at 3 AM to catch 5.25 Indigo
flight 6E-111 from Delhi to Bangalore landing at 8.10, I was already half out
of my senses for lack of sleep. Saw filtered coffee just outside Bangalore
airport, which was quite helpful in bringing me back. Headed straight for
office, I took the first cab available in the row (I did not knew that you
cannot pick another cab beside the first) a KSTDC cab hopefully headed for my
destination in Koramangala from Airport. Very conveniently the cab driver did
not understand Hindi, but a little bit of conversation started in English.
Enlightenment! Thanks
Google Maps
Traffic I guess is still quite bad on this route
once the airport new elevated toll road is crossed and we enter the city and I
had estimated and hour and half travel time from my earlier journeys. Frankly I
still do not have much idea about the routes in Bangalore, but strangely enough
the road signs did show which way for Koramangala. Our dear cabbie conveniently
forgot to see and headed right past it in opposite direction. I checked with
cabbie, and he did a slight nod, which I am not sure was confidence or
acknowledgement, but kept on heading into opposite direction. Out comes all
guns with Google maps, which did take 2-3 minutes to load and map my location,
but once online things were quite clear irrespective of language barrier as to
where we were headed and only a U-turn would save cabbie from embarrassment.
Time for Mutiny
That was it. Once I asked the cabbie why we were heading for Banashankari, when Koramangala was in opposite direction, cabbie spoke equally good Hindi to justify the route and puzzled on my sudden enlightenment. My persistence made us take U-turn and guess eventually cabbie did acknowledge that the route suggested by Google Maps was a shortcut and surely a possible tool he was going to recommend to KSTDC to implement in all other cabs. Shortcut or the correct route is still a mystery to me, but thanks for Google Maps that did not cost me any thing to download, but did save me valuable time and not to mention my precious 200 bucks.
Time for Mutiny
That was it. Once I asked the cabbie why we were heading for Banashankari, when Koramangala was in opposite direction, cabbie spoke equally good Hindi to justify the route and puzzled on my sudden enlightenment. My persistence made us take U-turn and guess eventually cabbie did acknowledge that the route suggested by Google Maps was a shortcut and surely a possible tool he was going to recommend to KSTDC to implement in all other cabs. Shortcut or the correct route is still a mystery to me, but thanks for Google Maps that did not cost me any thing to download, but did save me valuable time and not to mention my precious 200 bucks.
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