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ST bed layout [1] looks to be a fairly well developed layout bordering the army portion. Are there any good properties available? What is the current price like? Seeing the buffaloes does give a village look. With all kinds of workshops I wonder who the corporater is and what the ward number is. Can we have this info sir?

As per article 75 which is about 20 years old I think there should be a ward committee in place, which should be meeting periodically. Improvement of the road issue is a fit matter to be discussed in the ward committee. IMHO Murali sir should try to put this up to his ward committee for discussion with the corporater.

In my ward 58 the MLA Raghu's fund has been utilised for similar development work . The Corporator of my ward # 58 is Smt Sumitra Vijaykumar. Mr. Vijaykumar Husband of the The Corporator is the one who does the running around.

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I second Murali Sir's comments here. I take those 2 colored paths everyday, to join the IRR from ST Bed and then while coming back, I take the road near the naveen-terraces to enter ST Bed area.

I agree that if we make those 2 roads one way, it would be great for motorabiity.

And also, I also had another suggestion to make, that we should create a good footpaths on both sides of road for people to walk safely, which is very much needed, and just 1 lane of motorists, it will make this area less congested and safe for pedestriands and other people who are residential alongside those 2 roads.

I have discussed about the footpath near the drainage, near naveen terraces here as well, but its not going further ahead. Mr. Rajendra Babu (President, RWA ST Bed) who claimed to have done a lot of good work for the ST Bed with the help of local corporator and MLA, doesn't seem to give any good attention to this problem. I am not sure why all the footpaths are being reworked still which is not at all going to be used by anyone (who doesn't agree, please take a walk on footpath and show us the video), then why waste money, instead why not do work for footpath near naveen terraces narrow stretch going inside STBed, along side the drain, which make sure that pedestrians are safe while walking there.

Deepak

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Not only this, but after coming out of this ST Bed stretch to Ejupura signal, all the so called educated motorists take up all the space on that road, which fully blocks any vehicle coming from the other side (from ejipura), sometime BMTC buses comes from there to ST Bed side.

A median is very much needed there, and before that road has to be constructed on the straight road connecting signal, which just slows down all the traffic there at GREEN.

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I think the traffic congestion on the narrow road lined with houses and shops, which is the main street of Shini/Srinivagulu village and was never meant for motoring, is really unfair to the residents of the village, which got absorbed into the city without any kind of consultation or planning.  

I think it's important to recognise that Koramangala's (and Shini/Srinivagulu village's) traffic woes are going to continue in the present and possibly worsen in the future now that the armed forces have -- deliberately, in my opinion -- chosen to locate their mammoth married staff quarters project on the one part of their vast land holdings on either side of the Intermediate Ring Road that could have provided an escape route by linking the IRR to Sarjapur Road at or near the Agara Lake junction, where it can connect to the Outer Ring Road.

Such a link road should, of course, have been part of the IRR from the beginning and the authorities should have built that into their negotiations with the armed forces for land to build the IRR.  It made/makes absolutely no sense to have a ring road empty traffic into a residential area (at least at the Indiranagar end there's the old Airport Rd. to take some of that traffic but at the K'Mangala end it comes right into the heart of the layout).  The continuation of the IRR up to Sarjapur Rd. would have enabled motorists and even buses heading to Sarjapur Rd., HSR Layout, Hosur Rd. and south B'lore to avoid going through K'Mangala -- which would have been good for them as well as K'Mangala residents.

It may still be not too late to try and salvage the situation by initiating the action necessary to officially request the armed forces to be magnanimous, public-minded, citizen-friendly, etc., by allowing some kind of link road (even if it can't be as wide as the IRR now) between the IRR and Sarjapur Rd/ORR. An exit somewhere along S.T. Bed Layout/Friends' Colony could be used by those heading towards the 80 Ft. Peripheral Rd. (junction with 7th Cross), K'Mangala 1st Block, etc.

I really think this would benefit not only residents of Koramangala and, of course, ST Bed Layout and Shini/Srinivagulu village but also a much larger/wider section of citizens who use the IRR to get to Sarjapur Rd., Hosur Rd., south B'lore, etc. (not to mention the hapless traffic police trying in vain to do something about the insane level of traffic congestion in K'Mangala).

Ammu

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@ Ammu

I think the traffic congestion on the narrow road lined with houses and shops, which is the main street of Shini/Srinivagulu village and was never meant for motoring, is really unfair to the residents of the village, which got absorbed into the city without any kind of consultation or planning.  

While that may be true, at least one of the residents on the road very clearly appears to have converted his cattle shed into a car park, and is now rearing his cattle right on the public road (they are there day and night). Like-wise, I wouldn't be too surprised if the buffalo herd owner has also sold of parcels of his land holdings over time, shrinking the land available for tending to his buffalos, and is now merrily using public spaces for the purpose. All kinds of new construction, coming up all over the place, is a testimony to that.

With the dairy industry having established itself fairly well in the country, it is neither practical nor economical nor hygienic to be rearing cattle right in the heart of a city. Perhaps at the time of forming the layout and providing the road linkages itself, the BDA should have given them say a ten year notice period to phase out the activity. In a developing city, there are enough other avenues for livelihood pursuits, even for the unskilled lot, if that be the issue.

Now, while one may have some consideration for the original people of the village, what consideration can you have for the businessmen who are merrily usurping public space for the parking of their vehicles, and almost permanently. The truck bearing regn no 1170 is there in the picture published by me, as well as the one published by Deepak in the above post. In fact, it's there almost always. And, towards evening, a whole lot more line up on either side, reducing the effective road width to just about more than the width of a car, leading to the kind of jam Deepak is talking about.   

As stated by me, there is an eminent case for the banning of long term parking of vehicles on the stretch, as also for converting it into a one-way.

The continuation of the IRR up to Sarjapur Rd. would have enabled motorists and even buses heading to Sarjapur Rd., HSR Layout, Hosur Rd. and south B'lore to avoid going through K'Mangala -- which would have been good for them as well as K'Mangala residents.

Yes, this would be a good solution, and for entire Koramangala. It was included in the Master Plan 2015. But, nobody seems to have pursued it so far. Perhaps, that should now become the big ticket agenda item for the RWA federation.

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