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Bad Planning by Mantri Mall Malleswaram
Written By ranga - 21 March, 2010
Traffic Bangalore Malleswaram Citizen Reports traffic management Traffic jams
Quite a few days back i wrote about the Bad planning of Bigbazaar, where their were very less parking space made available and the vehicles hundreds of them parked on the road or adjecent bylanes, creating major traffic jams in that area.
Now it is the turn of Mantri Mall @ Malleswaram, in the weekend of last week and this week, the entire area is in a mess, by 4 pm in the evening( when i crossed that area) , the mall has put a sign board saying the parking is full. You can see hundreds of vehicles both two wheelers and four wheelers being parked in the adjacent roads, creating traffic jam, which amounted to about 45 mins of travel for a short distance of half a KM. You can see people with vehicles arguing with the police and the mall's security guards for parking.
How can officials let loose of a Big Mall not providing adequate infrastrucuture to the citizens for parking, and smooth manuvering of vehicles on the main road. It is surprising that the CM is inaugurated this last week. Haven't the officials and all checked on the basics in the Mall. Is this the way you put people into hardship. This Road and adjacent roads are major roads, leading to the City Railway Station and also to Yeshwanthpur, Peenya, Rajajinagar, Tumkur Road apart from Malleswaram etc....
Now, you hear the news that, same developers are going to construct a New complex near to the current one. Imagine the more mess it is going to create. Atleast now the authorities should get into action and make the builders provide Major Parking Lot for the visitors. Also, get them rectify the current fault in the entire system, which is creating major chaos.
Please Save Bangalore and also Save Malleswaram too.
COMMENTS
idontspam - 22 March, 2010 - 09:19
The problem of traffic isnt the mall's it is that of traffic management. We always bark up the wrong tree. Its one way good that the Malls limit their parking, they need to discourage personal vehicle travel and make people use the metro which is going to come up right next door. Until then suck it up and move on if there is no parking. No point arguing with the security at the mall and complicating the traffic for ourselves. If somebody puts half a brain they will know this problem is that of a lack of managing the roads, lanes & yeild rules. Of course we wont use even half a brain will we. Because what we dont want to admit we can overlook so we can blame somebody else.
Traffic management not parking
idontspam - 21 March, 2010 - 15:49
This has nothing to do with the parking availability in the mall. The traffic is a mess because of the merge from Sirur park road onto Nagappa road. Sirur park road must be closed for thru traffic onto nagappa road and the mall traffic should be directly entering the mall from sirur park road thru a magic box from Bashyam park (road between BBMP ward office & petrol bunk) across sampige road. Vehicles to city railway station should take the link road (bus route) and not use Sirur park road.
Stand at the sampige theater (millcorner signal) and watch the flow you will know why this makes sense. For our traffic police traffic planning means putting more police people on the ground. It does not mean studying traffic flow creating specific signage, deviations, extra lanes, making turn lanes, dedicating lanes for mall traffic, asking underpasses and ramps to be built etc.
See how when any structure especially malls come up in other countries, turn lanes, medians, signals, stops signs etc is altered all around the area along with the commissioning of the mall. Here everything is the same, more police will be standing around getting frustated along with the public thats all. I pity the constables, they work like robots without any brains from higher up supporting them.
rs - 21 March, 2010 - 17:23
Well, this was one of the issues I discussed in my long letter to various authorities which I also put up here - praja.in/en/blog/rs/2009/02/20/traffic-flow-change-required-malleswaram-area#comment-20727 - Of course none of the people who have any power bothered to pay any attention to this. I found this article today - the last line is rather frightning and shows how BBMP has screwed the mindset of people www.deccanherald.com/content/59182/mall-eswaram-rues-its-fate.html
And the Brigade Gateway mall is yet to open.....
idontspam - 21 March, 2010 - 17:40
the last line is rather frightning
Indeed, and the people should know better than to think this is expert opinion. Margosa road has nothing to do with the traffic jam, the last thing we want is chop, chop there. Unfortunately most of the comments also seem to thnk the traffic jams are because of the parkign in the mall. This has become so standard that they fail to look at first the issue as a traffic engineering problem and then a discipline issues by themselves as citizens and users of the road.
Bottomline, there is such a thing called Yeild which is an unselfish act bound by rules of who should yeild and when. We first dont know the rules and second do not believe yeild is a common good which will benefit all in the long run. This is the crux of all merge issues in Bangalore and India today. Selfishness is an extension of our culture and we show it off on our roads
Great opportunity to showcase PRAJA!
kbsyed61 - 3 June, 2011 - 15:30
IDS, Sanjeev,
Great yaar. Appreciate your taking some time off to prticipate in this walk. Don't forget to waer those PRAJA caps.
BTW do we have a PRAJA Banner? If not we should order one for such occassions.
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