potholes and traffic jams in Bangalore

I read in Satish's blog that driving in Bangalore has been a pain. That reminded me of my experience with my regular route. Traffic jam makes us think aloud and here are my ramblings.

I see that religiously filling the potholes alone will improve the traffic flow to a great extent. 2-3 seconds to cross a pothole multiplied by the number of vehicles in-front of us and again this time multipled by the number of potholes we face would approximately the time that we can save.

I can easily enlist the potholes on each road from Lalbagh to my office in Old Madras Road.
When you cross the Philips office near Ulsoor lake, right in front of that office, there is one small pothole. I would be strategizing while nearing this office. Reason is this. You need to ensure that you don't go to the right most lane. Then you will be waiting behind the buses for them take the right turn towards Aadarsha theatre.
At the same time, you can't take the left most lane as BSNL has created a mess there. I should say only here the reflector acts as a good guide for you showing the middle of the road!
As soon you take left towards Old Madras road, you need to maintain the right most side of the road. But still your car can't escape limping on the left as there is a big pothole created by the rain(?). This one not only gives a bumpy ride but also makes the vehicle queue extend to 200 meters.
There are few more like these but the significant one is at the intersection of old Madras road and Indira Nagar 80-ft road near to the church. So far I could not study the contour of this pothole due to traffic jam, but I cringe each day when I negotiate this. You can't go slowly over this when somebody honks at the back desperately wanting to escape the signal.
And when you go on residency road, don't take the rightmost side unless you want to count the manholes.
When most of the road widths have been reduced to 18-ft thanks to 2ft median,not satisfied with this, BBMP had put reflector in the so-called middle of that 20-ft road adding pain to bum and brain.
Out of that 20-ft, 10-ft is unusable due to dumping of sand and gravel, waiting autos and bus stops. If you want evidence check Dr.Marigowda road near to Lalbagh.
Speed breakers at the intersection should have been put on either side of the cross roads.
I don't understand the logic of extending the speed breaker across the road, on either side of the median like a 'T' section instead of skewed 'N' section.
Third reason for traffic jam is jay walkers transforming to buffalo when they see a vehicle coming towards them.
They have so much belief on others that they will be seeing the opposite side of the traffic flow, though it is a one way.

They have a opinion that car drivers are rich,arrogant brats. And drivers see them as lazy bums.
Thinking of solutions, car pooling could be one of the solutions. I don't know how matured this has become.
We need to be inventive to have this to happen. May be I can start "Car pooling and dating service" website.
To displace 60-80kg of weight, one need not use one ton weighing car is my personal opinion. We can use bikes with some special arrangements.
Government can also encourage by providing NICE roads exclusively for two wheelers. Last thing we would like to see ourselves sweating in the traffic jam and blaming the metro construction.
Providing nice stop-overs at every km,though will ruin us the chance of seeing wet churidars,can save laptops and books from getting drenched. Immunity from traffic constables, head gear with ice packs and reducing tax for two wheelers are other measures that should invite people to go for bikes.
Above all, hoardings saying "Please, no ego clash with fellow commuters", "Show humanness" may solve most of the traffic woes.