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Mysore road expansion - how can you remove the bottleneck?
Written By muthusubs - 16 March, 2010
Bangalore Road Works Mysore Road Analysis Transportation Infrastructure Bottlenecks
Do planners in Bangalore realize that bottlenecks are the main source of traffic problems? It doesn't matter if you have a 5km long 8 lane road at the end of which has a bottleneck which reduces to 2 lanes.
It looks like that the Mysore road is going to be widened. The govt will end up spending crores of money and cause inconvenience to lot of riders during this widening spree. We'll also lose all the trees which so far have kept the Mysore road a complete canopy. But the Bapujinagar bridge is a huge bottleneck. If nothing is done to widen at this point, the whole effort is meaningless. Given that we have the Masjid and the GhaaLi Anjaneya temple on either side, we can imagine that this part of the road can never be widened.
Do the officials even think about this before going about doing their job of road widening?
COMMENTS
silkboard - 4 April, 2010 - 19:11
Uploading some pics Srinidhi sent
@Srivatsava, or @Vinay - any luck trying to send alternate solutions to BBMP? Or is it too late?
Response to traffic - Downright foolish
Naveen - 5 April, 2010 - 10:46
scratch their heads as to why the jams have not gone within a year!
Couldn't be put better !!
These acts of unparalleled callousness & improfessional responses by authorities may never be witnessed or seen anywhere. Why is our administrative system so inept & completely lacking in intelligence or creativity of any kind ?
srinidhi - 16 March, 2010 - 14:10
in front of the Shell Petrol Bunk is the main reason for slow traffic on Mysore road..this needs to be taken care of..and the solution is simple..only if they could hear!!
The other bottleneck is the signal right before the start of the sirsi circle flyover..the road needs to be widened only here to address the jams..
But there is madness and careless attitude of the authorities..who think widening and adding another lane is going to fix everything!\
..and again the trees on those roads is our heritage..more precious than the Vidhana soudha or the high court..which are only centres of corruption! We lost many of them when the mysore road flyover was built and now this..where we stand to loose all of them!
Maybe we need an avatar to stop them!
SB_YPR - 18 March, 2010 - 13:43
There is an elevated road/flyover being constructed over the SWD at the GA Temple junction, with various arms branching off to Chord Road, Mysore Road and the KSRTC bus terminal. When this is complete (as per the original traffic plan), Mysore Road will be converted into a one-way between GA Temple junction and Deepanjalinagar, Chord Road will be converted into a one-way between the ROB and Deepanjalinagar, and traffic from Kengeri towards Sirsi Circle will run via Chord Road and then the elevated road to reach GA temple junction. Hopefully, once this is done, the bottleneck at GA Temple junction and the narrow stretch between GA Temple junction and Deepanjalinagar should clear up.
Hopefully. Because the project has been limping along for nearly three years now and shows absolutely no signs of nearing completion.
Meeting Ch'pet /Azad nagar Corporators today
Srivatsava - 8 April, 2010 - 04:01
Myself and Vinay Sreenivasa are meeting near Uma Talkies today evening at 7pm. We will proceed to meet atleast one of the corporators today.
Anybody interseted to join us, please call me on my mobile (98442-98662). We can be a little flexible with the timings.
-Srivatsava
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