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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
rs - 7 August, 2013 - 17:54
This evening there was a terrific jam on Mysore road - apparently there was an accident. I was on a bicycle and it took me 40 minutes to get from Bangalore University to the Chord Road junction - even though I could simply lift my bike out of a jam. A simple accident can completely destroy all the improvements they claim to have made. Anyway, forget about widerning - they first need to make the existing road. Its almost impossible to drive on it.
This is one of the most important roads in the city and they have been messing around without significant progress for the last 4 years. Such projects should be done with a war footing. It gives one very little hope for the future of this city - recent successes of Praja notwithstanding.
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
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 - 7 August, 2013 - 02:13
The mysore road stretch from satellite bus stand to sirsi circle flyover was widened and asphalted about two months ago..just after new govt took to power..
Already there are huge jams, as predicted above, during peak hours..that is because, even though the road was widened the entry and exits like the sirsi circle flyover are still two lanes and chokes the ramp! Absolutely nothing can be done there! The jams extend all the way from the foot of the flyover to after gopalan mall (>500 mts)
So what did all the widening get us to? A complete Naught!
Feels pathetic seeing the tall trees cut..all that was needed was some conservative road redesign and better traffic management..but everything was screwed up!
Only wish planners can read blogs and be better informed!
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