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Written By kbsyed61 - 10 August, 2012

Bangalore BTM Layout Bus Bengaluru Analysis Silkboard Traffic Electronic city Bottle Neck

Dear All,
ELCIA have been successful in getting improvements on Silk Board to E-city and beyond with elevated road and flyovers on ORR. Today the real bottle neck is BTM, silk board and Madiwala. This requires out of the box solution acceptable to all stake holders. They have requested associations of ORR, ITPL and WHEELS.,

Can I request you all to please share just ONE LINE OR within 250 WORDS a OUT OF THE BOX idea.,we will consolidate the ideas and discuss with the concerned officers and come back with the idea which is the BEST OUT OF THE BOX idea received.

Eg :
1. Have feeder buses from silkboard to E.city only every 5 minutes.
2. Service roads to be used ONLY by BUSES from Silkboard to E.city / Bommasandra

Regards
Viswanath Seetharam
www.blrwheels.com
blrwheels@gmail.com
 

COMMENTS

signal cycles and intersecting roads

Vasanth - 11 August, 2012 - 08:45

I am a daily traveller in this stretch. Signal cycles are too long and 3 cycked have to be waited twice for adjoining traffic and one long orr traffic. If the right turn traffic on orr could be avoided waits can be reduced. Right turning traffic should take turn at silkboard or advaitha bunk.

Develop other routes joining after silkboard?

Anithasunil - 14 August, 2012 - 04:36

Sometimes easing up a main road, happens when you repair the smaller roads around. Many a time, the smaller lanes have a carrying capacity of one or two lanes on the main road.

I have seen this happening on whitefield main road. Recently, the village roads connecting the whitefield main road to outer ring road (there are some two or three of them) were dug up for some BWSSB work, and the traffic block on the whitefield main road just shot up! The Hoodi - Krpuram stretch which used to take around 20 minutes a few weeks back can now take an easy 45 minutes .. According to me, these small roads used to carry traffic equivalanet to one or two lanes of whitefield main road, and suddenly you find all of them on the main road..

I am not a frequent traveller towards electronics city, and cannot comment on the existence of such small roads around silkboard. Prajagalu can pitch in with some ideas!

I believe that the way to improve silkboard junction might be not focussing on the junction itself, but on the infrastructure around that area

 

Problems for botteleneck Huge

mgururaji - 15 August, 2012 - 04:19

Problems for botteleneck

Huge Concentration of people boarding into public transport, Company Cabs, Private, Company buses which stop mid of road

Large number of 2/4 wheelers

Conventration of traffic comming from Baneerghhata , JP Nagar, Jayanagar side

Merging of traffic from by lanes and blocking on main road

 

Steps

Make Service lanes and parallel by lanes towards Madivala as one way and madatory for two wheelers only (most of time 4 wheels get struck and so  flow of traffic)

Create / Extend lake side  road towards ec along lake and then connect Hosur rd in rupenagrahara so all traffic comming from lake road and going towards ec take free u turn under flyover. 

Ban All bus stops for public, private along the strech for big vechicals, Shift to bigger stops all along hosur rd, Madivala rd, orr after silk jn and ply smaller bmtc cabs with regular interval from these places to shifted bus stops

Prevent all mergeing traffic to ORR from by lane or regulate with traffic police

 

 

 

 

Buses in and out of the box!

Srivatsava - 20 August, 2012 - 16:58

I strongly opine we need to build single lane (4-5m wide) magic underpasses on both sides of the road at the signals exclusively for buses. Two advantages

- Clear seggregation of traffic. Busses travel on 'their lane' betwen junctions.

- Faster public transport means lesser traffic in the long run. Ratio of time taken by bus wrt car should be 1, instead of twice or trice now.

 

plenty on PRAJA already

murali772 - 10 August, 2012 - 13:58

Prajagalu have given plenty of thought to the matter in the past. If you search with "silkboard", you'll get a list of them. One such post can be accessed here

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