Toll-gate Travails

Our

cars are getting better, our roads are improving and all of a sudden driving to

Pune from Mumbai is only a pleasant two-hour affair. I finish phone calls thanks

to the uninterrupted cellular network along the lovely expressway and I'm

beaming with the thought of a perfect new world. But wait! All is not well. Why

am I shelling out cash at toll collection gate? No smartcards for a regular

commuter like me so I can zip through? Even my regular city-limit toll

collection gates use RFID cards. There is no such thing as a perfect world after

all, is there?

Rajneesh De in

Mumbai