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All these signal free corridors is like attracting more vehicles to the road adding more stress. At the same time, Pedestrains have to struggle a lot with widened roads. Take for instance ORR between Silkboard to Marathalli, people have to cross the road holding breath in their hands.

Also, let all the Metro / LRT / Commuter Rail projects finish off. These constructions will obstruct these projects, especially Metro Phase 2 and LRT/Monorail. 

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All this widening, signal free, grade seperator, elevated roads etc must WAIT.

FIRST & foremost is making sure ALL roads (yes, EACH & EVERY) in Bangalore are completely free of potholes, geometrically corrected & engineered to IRC/tendersure standards including lanes, direction boards & pedestrianization/NMT friendly. Pending projects like CNR rao underpass, Hosur road widening etc is completed. Only then will citizens entrust the city into their hands for ANY new construction.

EVEN if all these take 10 years thats all these civic agencies should be allowed to do else we will have to take to the streets & stop these flights of fancy. If traffic increases in the meanwhile. Tough luck put a complete ban on new registrations until the street designs are fixed.

THEN, if they ever get to building these new things, detailed design of every project with scale models must be made available to the public viewing & published in all newspapers & feedback answered before it can be taken up.

Bangalore roads look like a mud track from a sub saharan African country with tinpot leadership. Actually this comparision is an insult to the sub saharan African country. SHAME ON BBMP. All engineers & corporators deserve to be riding donkeys with blackened faces on these roads with our trash hung across their necks like a garland

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Consider any old or new flyover, the worse affected part is the below the flyover.

Be it pedestrian or motorist, everyone is very much negatively affected by the flyover going above.

Domlur flyover, iblur flyover, agara flyover, any other flyover, They just made 3 lanes one side traffic roads on the flyover, but what about people walking, moving, driving, or crossing the roads below the flyover?

Deepak

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I am shooting off separate letters to the Commissioners of BBMP and BDA, Mayor, CM, Chief Secretary, as below, with copies to the Addl Commr, Traffic.

A ppt presentation on "Traffic Improvement Action Plan for 2012-13" (accessible here) was mailed to the Traffic Advisory Committee (sometimes referred to as 'Citizen's Traffic Forum') members, by the office of the Addl Commissioner, Traffic, a day before the meeting held on the 1st Sept. The same was apparently prepared in conjunction with the other "stake-holders" of the city, and, with their overall approval obtained at a meeting held on the 25th Aug, the works are expected to start soon.

Now, Sir, we wish to submit that this is the first time that the plan is being placed before the biggest stake-holders in any city, viz the citizens, and that too by the city Traffic Police, who themselves appear to have very little say, if at all, in the planning process. The onus of planning is on the elected body, which is the BBMP, or its nominees, the BDA and BMRDA, and would generally have expected the proposals to come from one, or all of them. This is particularly so considering the financial outlays on their plans far outweigh those of the traffic police.

The above apart, what has been presented, even at this stage, is only a list of the jobs being taken up, along-with costs, and time schedules. As compared to that, one would have expected to see detailed plans of at least each of the major works, made available perhaps on the net, apart from scale models of the project areas displayed at the nearest ward office (showing clearly how things will look after the jobs are completed). And, that should have happened at least some six months before the commencement of the actual civil works, and not when all decisions have already been made, and the jobs are set to commence any day now. The six months period should then be utilised for getting feedback from the citizens, and making necessary changes, as may be decided thereof, after which the project parameters should be frozen thereafter, and the job completed on schedule.

For your ready reference, accessible here is what one would consider a model citizen consultation process from the city of London, though petaining to a different sector.

In view of all of the above, Sir, we request you to keep the execution of at least the major works on hold, till such time as a process as stated above is gone through. Should you need any help in the consultation exercise, we shall be glad to offer the same.

If anyone has any comments, let me know by tomorrow.

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Here is where the problem is.

Under the guise of a "Traffic advisory commitee" or whatever else this is called,consultations will be made to appear to have happened.

and the wholescale "solutions" seem to tend towards steel and concreteand easing contractor works.

cant say if the individuakl projects are good or bad without details.

but they are massive enuf to warrant a collective citizen effort to say:"hold on" , "details please" and discuss.

but the lack of a real pan bangalore citizen outfit or inabilty for all civic groups to work together is a problem in issues like these.

vmenon 

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