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Written By idontspam - 13 May, 2012
Bangalore Analysis Flyovers and underpasses elevated road
The BDA has proposed a six-lane bi-directional flyover from Le Meridien to Cauvery junction, all the way up to CBI junction on Bellary Road.
Read this nonsense proposal here
Why was the Palace grounds acquired then? How many lanes do we want to add? We have already alienated Byatrayanapura by building elevated road from Hebbal to Yelahanka without bothering to provide access to people but still charging toll. How much more nonsense should we tolerate? We should not allow any more building until the engineering of current roads is fixed.
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price to pay for..Subramanya's legacy?
srinidhi - 14 May, 2012 - 00:59
Have always thought that the camel humps starting from BDA need to go..they are no good.they were never needed in the first place..maybe they can give back the acquired properties or reuse them for other purposes..but if done right this might be the opportunity to correct many follies..
I would say drop the bridge just before the hebbal flyover so that all junctions are addressed..would have been better if NHAI would have done it but good engineering should address issues..
BDA Engineers have MUD in Head
kamalakar pandit - 14 May, 2012 - 06:00
Srinidhi/sathya,
I also read this article and was shocked the way BDA has Planned...they have MUd in Head..thats my conclusion...dont know who gives such ideas to them ?? they should be punished first.
I thought..couple of underpasses will ease the traffic from windsor manor bridge to Hebbal flyover ..
First, an underpass @ windsor manor...so that traffic moves smoothly, second one at the cauvery junction...(since they are widening the road they can build whilst widening itself) no more underpass/flyover required at other places...we need to stream line the bus stop at Air Force station..probably couple of bus bay's will solve the bottle neck. lastly there should be an pedestranian subway/sky walk...so that people can walk easily...if these things are implimented..I think 80% of the tafiic jam will be solved..
6 lane bi-directional flyover...bull shit idea...its gonna be criminal waste of public money...
GNT - 14 May, 2012 - 16:31
they have their brains up their asses. I am sick and tired of these idiots not fixing what is broken, but moving the problem down the lane to somewhere else.. I am sick and tired of this nonsense.
Have flyovers solved anything?
s_yajaman - 16 May, 2012 - 03:19
We can keep building flyovers and underpasses. But where have they permanently solved any problem? They have probably solved some corporators bank balance problem at best.
The BDA and BBMP first need to change their mindset about cities. Cities are not about cars moving fast without interruption from pedestrians. Their current mindset is a mish mash of the USA and China - that somehow we can have a car based society in urban India by spending lots of money on flyovers.
Richmond Circle flyover was supposed to have "solved" the problem at Richmond Circle. What has it done? Just moved around bottle necks.
Ditto Hyderabad where the flyovers on SP Road were touted as the next best thing after sliced bread. And in Bombay where the flyovers on the WE Highway. They resemble parking lots at 9:30 in the morning. The average speed on the WE Highway is about 10 kmph between Andheri and Kandivali in the evenings.
We always seem to have money to build flyovers but never enough to complete pavements and put decent medians and traffic islands.
Srivathsa
idontspam - 13 May, 2012 - 16:45
Current roads are engineered badly & a lot of problems will be solved by fixing that. Flying over problems bypassing population by building inaccessible redundant monstrosities isnt the way. I also would like to see better throughput on orridor roads but this is not solution at all. I had better hopes from RK Mishra than pushing such harebrained projects.
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