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Written By idontspam - 21 October, 2012
Bangalore Skywalks walkability intersection Pedestrian Infrastructure pedestrian Domlur flyovers EGL
Naveen, SB & I decided at short notice to take a walk around the Domlur IRR/OAR (Old airport road) interchange to see the pedestrian issues in that area. I am attaching the route we too walking all around. Some points that showed up
1. Bus stop towards the city on OAR spills onto the ramp. Bus stop towards marathahalli blocks traffic entering OAR.
2. Pedestrian have to walk on the street along the entire route including on the ramp with fast moving vehicles approaching us. Absolutely no safe walking place.
3. Have to brave traffic hurtling down the road on all sides to cross any stretch. Very dangerous.
Virtually no pedestrian infrastructure exists in this place & all interchanges in the city are going to have this problem as no effort is taken to put pedestrians in the plan at all anywhere!!!
Hebbal is worse & Nayandahalli has a chance to fix it but I am sure BDA wont!
COMMENTS
idontspam - 21 October, 2012 - 13:59
Click on the image to open a larger version. The red blue & green lines are the path we took walking. I have not measured but I would think the route would have been around 500M overall. The zebra rectangles I have used are where we chose to cross but currently there are no crossings marked/indicated on the road. The bus stop icons with the red cross mark are where the current bus stops are on OAR. The ones on 100ft rd & IRR are indicated without the cross mark. I have also marked the Domlur TTMC on the left corner of the picture.
I have chosen to write up the surface option recommendation while Naveen will do the skywalk option, so we can compare & contrast. Open now for your views & suggestions on how to make this more pedestrian friendly. We can apply similar concepts to all interchanges once we are done with this.
idontspam - 21 October, 2012 - 15:04
Broadly there are 2 options available at the surface
1. Lay a good 6 ft feet wide pedestrian walkway with signalized zebra crossings along more or less the path we have taken.
2. Lay a 10ft wide cycle/ped pathway more or less along the IRR/OAR road (as they existed before the interchange came) weaving under the loops & crossing the kaluve with a single 10 ft wide magic box under the OAR.
The second option is similar to an elevated walkway but is more cycle & pedestrian friendly as it is on the surface (the magic box across OAR should be ramped like a road not with stairs).
dvsquare - 21 October, 2012 - 17:36
Hi,
You haven't covered the path from the IRR bus-stop in front of DELL, or from the place on IRR, where flyover starts. There exists a footpath, but too narrow, and most of the places, it encroached, destroyed and nullified.
Same is the state on the other side of this road.
I did this exercise of walking on this strech a year back, and here I commented -
http://praja.in/en/blog/silkboard/2011/07/04/hall-shame-spot-2-domlur-flyover#comment-29175
Everyday I take this road and then U-turn below the flyover to reach EGL campus. On both sides of the road, I see all the people risking their life walking on the road, motorists and drivers honking on them, very sad state of public. Peak time shows the plight of the commuters/pedestrians.
One thing, which could be done, is to mobilise many pedestrians on this road, tell them to walk in between the road in groups. Idea is really not disturb the motorists, but to show the authorities that we as pedestrians also need our space to walk, they need to clear up the space meant for walking, and remove encroachment as well.
I had raised a complaint on ichangemycity as well about the adarsh building encroachment of the footpath, detailed here. I think, here I need to follow up on the number mentioned in this complaint's acknowledgement by bbmp.
Deepak
idontspam - 22 October, 2012 - 02:29
@dvsquare can you take pics & post your suggestions here? also mark the current & EGL busstops on a map so we can include it.
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