Inefficient roads of India
My office is 4 km from home in Noida.
I spend 45 minutes getting there every single day.
That's not a typo.
4 km. 45 minutes. In a car.
At that speed, I could've walked, gotten a chai break, and still reached before the traffic cleared.
But here's the thing, I'm not even the worst off.
Look at what's happening across India's biggest corporate cities right now:
🔴 Bengaluru: 67.5 mins avg | 3,94,943 trips
🔴 Delhi-NCR: 67.5 mins avg | 3,01,488 trips
🔴 Mumbai: 62.5 mins avg | 22,727 trips
🔴 Chennai: 61 mins avg | 1,66,445 trips
🔴 Hyderabad: 59.5 mins avg | 2,09,999 trips
🔴 Pune: 59 mins avg | 2,49,068 trips
Nearly 14 LAKH corporate cab trips tracked.
Every single city nearing the 1-hour mark just to reach office.
And this isn't general commute data.
This is specifically GCC employees. Cab pickups. Cab drops.
The most organised, well-funded, globally backed offices in India, and their employees are still losing 2 hours daily sitting in traffic.
We talk about India's GCC boom like it's the future of work.
400,000 trips in Bengaluru alone.
300,000 in Delhi-NCR.
World-class talent. World-class offices.
But the roads connecting homes to those offices? Still stuck in 2004.
The irony is brutal.
We're building infrastructure for global capability.
But our daily infrastructure can't move a person 4 km in under 45 minutes.
Productivity lost in traffic.
Focus gone before the first meeting.
Energy drained before the laptop even opens.
2 hours of your day just gone. Every single day.
That's 10 hours a week.
40 hours a month.
Almost 500 hours a year.
Just sitting in traffic.
The smartest thing Indian corporates could do right now isn't just hire better talent or build fancier offices.
It's solve the commute problem for their own people.
Flexible hours.
Satellite offices.
Genuine hybrid policies.
Last-mile transport solutions.
Because the talent is here.
The ambition is here.
The work ethic is here.
The road just isn't.
And until we fix that, we're leaving hundreds of productive hours on the table every single year. more
I spend 45 minutes getting there every single day.
That's not a typo.
4 km. 45 minutes. In a car.
At that speed, I could've walked, gotten a chai break, and still reached before the traffic cleared.
But here's the thing, I'm not even the worst off.
Look at what's happening across India's biggest corporate cities right now:
🔴 Bengaluru: 67.5 mins avg | 3,94,943 trips
🔴 Delhi-NCR: 67.5 mins avg | 3,01,488 trips
🔴 Mumbai: 62.5 mins avg | 22,727 trips
🔴 Chennai: 61 mins avg | 1,66,445 trips
🔴 Hyderabad: 59.5 mins avg | 2,09,999 trips
🔴 Pune: 59 mins avg | 2,49,068 trips
Nearly 14 LAKH corporate cab trips tracked.
Every single city nearing the 1-hour mark just to reach office.
And this isn't general commute data.
This is specifically GCC employees. Cab pickups. Cab drops.
The most organised, well-funded, globally backed offices in India, and their employees are still losing 2 hours daily sitting in traffic.
We talk about India's GCC boom like it's the future of work.
400,000 trips in Bengaluru alone.
300,000 in Delhi-NCR.
World-class talent. World-class offices.
But the roads connecting homes to those offices? Still stuck in 2004.
The irony is brutal.
We're building infrastructure for global capability.
But our daily infrastructure can't move a person 4 km in under 45 minutes.
Productivity lost in traffic.
Focus gone before the first meeting.
Energy drained before the laptop even opens.
2 hours of your day just gone. Every single day.
That's 10 hours a week.
40 hours a month.
Almost 500 hours a year.
Just sitting in traffic.
The smartest thing Indian corporates could do right now isn't just hire better talent or build fancier offices.
It's solve the commute problem for their own people.
Flexible hours.
Satellite offices.
Genuine hybrid policies.
Last-mile transport solutions.
Because the talent is here.
The ambition is here.
The work ethic is here.
The road just isn't.
And until we fix that, we're leaving hundreds of productive hours on the table every single year. more
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It is showing that automobile Sector is booming. great Peoples, Great Govt. when the Peoples lost their Common Sense It happened. Improper City Development Plant & Transportation. If They would have develop Metro Like service , efficient Public Transportation It will not happened. Petro Product Consumption will Go down, Pollution Level also. But Peoples should understand Before blaming any Govt. Your Leaders selection & ability to Demand in Correct way has lost. In today Scenario the Peoples Do Not want to walk 100 meter also. Looking for AC & Luxury. more
Mar 30
People needs to use walking, bicycle or extensive use of public transport rather then using own vehicle just 1 person in a car. By walking all will be healthy, fresh and saves money, fuel and refuce carbon. This will reduce traffic also. more
Mar 29
India isn’t short of talent or ambition — we’re just losing both in traffic before the workday even begins. more
Mar 29
