{"id":284833,"date":"2010-02-05T22:49:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T03:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.team-bhp.com\/forum\/street-experiences\/74980-south-mumbai-streets-heaven-bikers-but-roads-hell.html"},"modified":"2010-02-05T22:49:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T03:49:57","slug":"south-mumbai-streets-are-heaven-for-bikers-but-roads-are-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/284833","title":{"rendered":"south Mumbai streets are heaven for bikers but roads are hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>When I was looking to buy a bike in Mumbai, I was dissuaded by everyone not to buy. I should rather go for a car.  The city has too much traffic, etc. By the way I have lived in some of the most chaotic cities to drive like Hyderabad, Kolkata (worst I have seen), Bangalore and Chennai. After travelling in Andheri for couple of days even I was of the opinion that maybe I can&#8217;t drive it much until night time.  But the Bullet classic 500 was here and I had to own it. So here starts my journey as a biker again.<\/p>\n<p>Finally after getting my bike papers on tuesday, I started driving the bike. It has been only a couple of days driving in south mumbai, But believe me it is heaven to drive a bike here. I felt taking a slow local train consumes more time than driving a wheeler. I finished a distance of 20 km in 40 min flat in morning traffic(without going beyond 50-60kmph even on open roads, bike run in). Evening it was coming around 50 mins. Bandra &#8211; Nariman Point.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking how is it possible that even with so much traffic I am able to make good times. This is all due to the fact that there are no Three Wheelers allowed in beyond bandra. Man it makes a hell lot of a difference without them on the streets. Bikes can zip through most of the traffic with ease. On top of it at some of the junctions the signals go green in a sequence so I get like 2-3kms of nonstop drive. The speed of vehicles here is averaging easily 50+ kmph, highest I have seen in the major cities (Have not driven around much in delhi). <\/p>\n<p>please:Make the cities auto free and half the traffic problems will be solved. We need a 4 wheeler replacement for Autos and voila we will have a easily manageable traffic.<\/p>\n<p>But the roads are bad I mean really bad. very uneven. I am surprised to see them in such a bad condition. Even marine drive is sad. Not many potholes but uneven and slippery surfaces make them dangerous for bikers. The chance of skidding is very high.  I guess I will have to look a tires which will grip better by the time it rains. Else I am screwed big time. I hope the road conditions improve.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was looking to buy a bike in Mumbai, I was dissuaded by everyone not to buy. I should rather go for a car. The city has too much traffic, etc. By the way I have lived in some of the most chaotic cities to drive like Hyderabad, Kolkata (worst I have seen), Bangalore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4804,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}