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Written By GNT - 4 May, 2012
Bangalore ORR Analysis Outer Ring Road Flyovers and underpasses
Hello Everyone, If you haven't experienced or haven't heard about this, there was a horrible traffic pile up on Wednesday morning on ORR underpass near the Cisco Offices and Prestige Tech Park. Because of the huge rain on Tuesday night, water accumulated at the bottom of the underpass and literally the water was a couple of inches short of knee deep. Two wheelers couldn't use the underpass and all the four whellers and big vehicles had to go on a single file at a snail's pace to get out of the jam.
Guess why the accumulation of water? Some genius forgot about the water (rain or otherwise) drains at the bottom of the underpass. I am not sure if it an engineering impossibility to put the drains there to drain water from that low lying area, but why construct underpasses when you know there are going to be problems?
There are so many articles (in Hindu) on the poor quality of construction of underpasses in Bangalore recently, it is not even funny.
It noramally takes about 45 minutes to reach E.City from Marathalli. On Wednesday, it took me more than 2 hours.
Needless to say, I am dreading the monsoon season.
-Pavan
COMMENTS
ashok_n - 5 May, 2012 - 07:12
Incidentally this was noticed by a Skyscraper city user and posted there, in February itself. What was noticed by a layman is beyond BDA... Really shameless.
sanjayv - 5 May, 2012 - 12:18
Storm water drains on ORR are (a) Full of garbage (b) Discrete channels not really connected to any final sink. This whole business is a tragedy.
abidpqa - 6 May, 2012 - 13:16
The unregulated leveling of land makes the drains useless. When no regulation is there development is fast, but leads to blocks later. But despite these fundamental problems, the underpasses at Rammurthynagar, Banswadi seems to be working properly, so may be this is not too big issue and could be solved with some minor changes. They cant do such big mistake. They already have experience in designing and building underpasses.
GNT - 6 May, 2012 - 16:16
@abidpqa Don't be so sure that they can't make this big a mistake.. :)
Our geniuses are absolutely capable of screwing up the easiest of the jobs. I drive through this monument twice a day. I am positive there are no drains now..
My point is not if they can fix it or not. Where is the thought process when you are designing the damn thing in the first place?
@Sanjayv is absolutely correct. ORR is one of the better and wider roads in this city. There is absolutely no maintenance of that road. You don't see the drains through out the road. (I live in Marathalli - So, from Marathalli to Sarjapur Road) They are always in pockets and are almost always filled with plastic cups and what not. If and when they clean it and dump the waste on the road, the truck which takes it away is atleast two to five days late and the garbage comes back and settles into the drains.
Some times (when I am really frustrated with all this nonsense) I feel we are all living in a garbage dump.. :(
-Pavan
idontspam - 4 May, 2012 - 17:03
All underpasses will suffer this fate. Beyond the water the new flyovers & underpasses being built on the ring road near Nagawara dont have enough banking forcing you to slow down. This is just bad engineering. The new underpass had a sigboard reading 30KMPH this is on a road being built for 80kmph. What a sorry state of affairs.
To add to the woes a new temple is coming bit by bit on a 2 feet median gap near the bhdrappa layout intersection. It started with a hanuman photo, then came a leaf shelter, then the photo was replaced with a painted hanuman on a chappadi milestone marker.BDA is sleeping on the job
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