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Written By Bheema.Upadhyaya - 13 March, 2010
Traffic Bangalore BETL Hosur Road Elevated Roads Safety Citizen Reports Accident
Believe it or not, Hosur Road Flyover witnessed multiple vehicle accidents at least 2 times involving 4 or more vehicles. Few accidents even caused damage to median, any one can see it clearly. 2 Fatal accidents have also occured. Pity ! - A local "breaking news" channel did not get these news, while they get news within minutes from any part of city. I suspect their mouth was shut by "Kaibisi"(Some offer) . When I drove I felt like driving in tunnel, not comfortable. I saw average speed of 90+Km when I drew. Ironically during a test of VMS(variable message system) it read "All is well. Drive slowly" !!!
Now I am scared to drive even below flyover in regular road, as I heard of an accident where a biker flew above side-guards and fell below onto road( and died of course). I always drive exactly below the flyover(rightmost lane) to be safe from falling objects, call me whatever..
To BETL : All the best for your toll collection which is going to start "soon" (Soon - Answer I got when I asked some people at toll. No dates, no certainity) . Make sure your customers reach other end for sure.
COMMENTS
It’s a bumpy ride on toll road Electronic City
Sanjeev - 9 April, 2010 - 04:17
Chaos continued on the Hosur Road Elevated Tollway even on the second day of toll collection as the route back from Electronic City witnessed bumper to bumper traffic on Thursday evening.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/62871/its-bumpy-ride-toll-road.html
The response to the monthly is so poor, its any one guess now how many vechile will use Elevated Raod.
Bheema.Upadhyaya - 4 January, 2011 - 05:15
This is the sentence seen in homepage of BETL website. I am sure, most of us will not support this going by first principles of life.
Anyway, today I have posted few suggestions in their feedback system, hope someone looks into it.
1) "Toll Road" display is hidden at Bommanahalli entrance. So outsiders/new comers will be mislead.
2) Display "Exit is 9.5 Km from here", again keeping newcomers in mind
3) Display toll charges right at entrance, so people will check pockets before entering tollway. :)
Naveen - 4 January, 2011 - 06:32
This sort of publicity by BETL is appaling.
Bheema.Upadhyaya - 5 January, 2011 - 05:11
I must mention that response was real quick, say within an hour. General Manager of BETL(Brigadier M.R. Deshpande???, I forgot to ask name) contacted me via my mobile. Here is the summary of call with him number *****11773.
1) "Toll Road" display is hidden at Bommanahalli entrance. So outsiders/new comers will be mislead. -- He brought to my notice that there was on overhead board indicating the same, which is correct, today I confirmed. 2) Display "Exit is 9.5 Km from here", again keeping newcomers in mind -- As per him any tollway will be of minimum of 9.5KM so people should common sense , than depending on boards. So BETL will not act on this feedback. Also just for few newcomers BETL can not provide any such boards, as its not practical. 3) Display toll charges right at entrance, so people will check pockets before entering tollway. :) -- As per NHAI standards toll rates to be displayed at toll plazas, not any where else. As per that gentleman, it can not be read by people easily, unless they stop midway to read rates. So BETL is not going to act on this feedback.
It was nice to talk him with all due respect for each other.
Travell Time by bus not much difference
Sanjeev - 13 March, 2010 - 11:20
It seems, the feedback what I got from my friends is Travell time taken after opening of Elevated Hosur Road is not reduced. As they travell by Company buses ( Infosys, HP ). these buses do not use the Flyover. Even if they use, then travell time will increase by 5-8 Minites as they have to tarvell extra 1.5Kms to reach bus yard.
Also the speed restriction for Buses is 40 Kms & no over-taking on the fly-over by buses.
I want to know from folks who are travelling daily to Electronic city on Elevated Hosur Raod, travell time has been reduced or not ( now when Toll is not collected ). Once toll collection starts, then what will be the travell tim???
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