Traffic woes

I had been to Ritchie street today afternoon to get a hardware part fixed in my laptop. The fix took only about fifteen minutes, but the commute time was more than 3 hours to reach Ritchie street and come back home. Roads are blocked and vehicles diverted within the city (Chennai) for the metro rail construction. Roads with 4 lanes are reduced to just a passage that's big enough only for a single vehicle to pass. While i drove back, i thought that the mount road will be lane of vehicular chaos and took the beach road. I then understood that it was an experience of jumping onto the stove from the Pan. Vehicles were moving at a snail's pace with lot of vehicles coming in a cool way in the opposite direction. I now understand the reason for the frequent accidents on the beach road with buses and cars ramming vehicles coming in the opposite direction. I should thank Ilayaraja for helping me to keep my cool through out those 2 hours of nerve wrecking traffic chaos. Chennai seems to be in a transformation phase right now with the construction of the pillars and tracks for the metro rail. The plan seems to cover the busiest stretches of the city. I presume the city's transportation system will get a major face lift once the metro rail becomes  operational. Phase 1 may get completed by the end of 2013. The hope is that the car & two wheeler users will reduce their road usage with the advent of the metro rail system. Wherever available, electric trains seem to be the quickest means of transportation within the city. I am very hopeful that most of the vehicle users would prefer using this new means of transport instead of getting tormented by the traffic chaos to save a couple of minutes. So, the only option right now is to keep our patience intact while traversing through the main roads of the city and wait for the metro dawn.