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ORR choking near KR Puram station - one reason
Written By idontspam - 23 September, 2009
Traffic Bangalore Design ORR KR Puram Analysis Transportation Traffic jams
Speaking of KRPuram shouldnt this entire length be only 2 lanes wide? Why are they allowing the use of the entire pancreatic bulge before the chicken neck? There should only be as many lanes as allowable for the entire stretch. So what do the "engineers" in the BBMP think when they lay asphalt? Do they know their profession has a meaning?
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blrsri - 24 September, 2009 - 09:13
Talking about the traffic here..a bulk of it is HTV/Multi axle vehicles which do not have an alternate to get to hosur road from tumkur road..
The PRR work need to be hastened to move this traffic..
Among the other grand plans of the Govt. we have the 'signal free' ORR corridor from Silkboard to Hebbal road..this should also address the pedestrians..cos the signal under the hanging bridge is mostly for peds..
magic underpass peds are more useful here than wasting it on millers road/nrupathunga road!
And if were to ask a set of questions via an RTI
s_yajaman - 23 September, 2009 - 14:29
What would they be? There is obviously something very wrong here and it reeks of negligence and neglect
What questions would we ask?
E.g.
a. During the construction of the suspension bridge was a pedestrian footpath planned along the ORR between point X and point Y?
b. How much money was allocated for this footpath?
c. Which department was responsible for constructing this footpath?
d. Who was the contractor?
e. What pedestrian facilities were planned?
Get what I mean?
Srivathsa
abidpqa - 23 September, 2009 - 07:16
I have heard there is a plan to acquire land on the other side of the bridge (Lowry school side). This could solve the problem to some extend.
As a temporary solution, the restriction of trucks between 8 to 10 in the morning and 6 to 8 in evening could be considered on this stretch.
silkboard - 23 September, 2009 - 03:06
Go through this particular place every evening. The bulge, and then the narrow/choke section - that is definitely one reason for backup here. It could speed up this point by 30-40%. What makes it worse are these two things
- Buses stop at a stand right where the 'bulge' changes into a 'neck'
- No facilities for peds under the bridge - they must walk on the road, without protection, except in mornings, and sometimes in the evening when a cop is around to blow whistles.
What the hell would it take to do a pedestrian subway here? I wonder if we should take it in our hands and organize a public works/digging day to launch construction of a ped subway. [not as easy as this is right under the cable bridge structure]
Last time I asked at KR Puram police station, 7 children were hit (most injured, and possibly 1 died - confirmation wasn't clear) at this point in last 9 months. This was via an informal chat with two cops, not any RTI.
idontspam - 23 September, 2009 - 08:38
I have heard there is a plan to acquire land on the other side of the bridge (Lowry school side).
We have 2 clear lanes all the way from beginning of the bridge all the way to whitefield. Do we know how to manage throughput with what we have? Even the split ahead at ring road can be managed by signboards to stick to right lane all the way from begining of the KR Puram flyover itself.
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