Travelling by Metro:)

I have always liked the sound of the chug chug of the train. Always reminds me of leaving town, going for holidays, summer vacations as kids, travel, the outdoors, the great beyond! My, what a train of thought:)

And when I travel by the beautiful, wide, MRTS (I think its Metro Railway Transport System or Mass Rapid Transit System, whatever..)at Chennai, I am happy. We pass poverty, we fly over dirt and squalor, we pass the big, concrete IT buildings, we pass happy children playing, we pass..oh we pass a lot, but seen from a higher perspective, er..higher perspective literally of course.. it seems that the squalor and dirt and crowds just melt away into the distance. The rich-poor divide was never more evident than at the Boat Club where elite Chennaities chugged gently on their genteel little boats rowing away for all they were worth, while on the periphery of the Coouum dirt congealed and rotted and little children were spotted...Hmmm Life ho to aisi!! (dunno if i have the grammar right:))

Whats really tragic are the traffic messes (not" jams;" its an insult to the word "jams" because jam gives the impression of a planned event gone haywire but "messes" are unplanned events meant to go haywire:) . The long lines of cars and two wheelers and cycles and buses and blah blah..all stuck at odd angles, the innumerable signals, the jaywalking public. The trains go empty while the road is full, the bus is full. Don't people want the exertion of taking the stairs at railway stations and walking it a bit to their places of work ? Or is it the freedom to possess your own vehicle (and worse ride/drive it) at any cost? Or could it be that humans are so depraved that it gives one man strange powers and happiness to sit as a lone occupant in a SUPV (say a Tata Innova) and chase all the pedestrians on a small road hither and thither? hehehe:) I wouldnt know!!

Anyways, here I am , travelling by the fastest mode of surface transport i know of, and walking it a bit , and enjoying life!! And I am recommending every executive working with me to use the Metro:)