Hi all,
Its 1.30 am Friday night at Washington D.C...... I have come here for a short trip this week-end with my friends. We will explore the US capital tomorrow and head to Virginia Beach towards night. Hope to have a nice time there on Sunday.
This is my first trip outside Virginia Tech area of Blacksburg and surroundings, since coming to US on 7th August, 2009. It took almost 6 hours of drive (including 1 hr stop-over for supper at a Chinese restaurant) to reach Washington. The highways were unlit (literally) and the roads were narrow and risky (infact very much accident-prone). I genuinely at times feel that we have come to an undeveloped country from a developed one (i.e. India). And, this is even more true if we compare the transportation systems prevalent here with the one we have at home. The public transport network here is in utter disarray. Buses are there within the town, but they are only regular on the week-days, leaving the week-ends in the hands of Gods. And, during breaks, although there is some schedule, they don't even bother to pay any respect to them. Finally, this country has a railway network that can be best described to be the one that India probably had during the 1910s. The connections are rare between small towns and cities and some say that the trains are also not safe (so are the few long-distance buses that they have here) Believe me, the rail-system here is almost a hundred years behind us.
The main point where America scores over India is that the people here are rich. So, each middle-class family can afford 2 cars. But, this can in no way justify the utter disregard of the State towards maintaining a proper and systematic public transportation system......
Anyway friends, tomorrow we will visit the White House, the Smithsonian museums, the Capitol Building and the other notable places of Washington D.C...... I sincerely wish that this city would not dishearten us.....
Cheers All,
Saikat
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send this blog to india government...khusite toke je ki korbe i can't even imagine...
ReplyDeleteI feel the same Saikat, public transport is a disaster in USA, God knows why but I was really annoyed also.
ReplyDeletePublic Transport is poor mainly because of the money ppl have( as u have pointed out). But we live in small towns and even in India the public transport in such small places is really bad. I am not sure what kind of transport system there is here in big cities like New York, Washington DC etc. Ghure ese bolis kamon chilo oyekhankar public transport.
ReplyDeletepublic transport in India is indeed problematic in small towns, but still it is not as an issue of concern as pointed out by Saikat, that you almost get nothing on weekends.
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