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Written By s_yajaman - 28 July, 2009
Bangalore BETL Design Bangalore Review Improvement junction Transportation Infrastructure Flyovers and underpasses Silkboard
Read somewhere that BETL will open sometime during September to coincide with Dasara. This will significantly impact Silkboard junction during peak hours as all previous bottlenecks will now be bypassed by the elevated road.
The there is the plan to make the stretch between Silkboad and Hebbal signal free by having 6 flyovers. This is a mixed bag. While it might help clear traffic towards Hebbal, it will also bring a lot of traffic (on a PCU/hr basis) into Silkboard Jn after bypassing current bottlenecks along ORR.
Then there is the Big10 plan for Hosur Road.
Given all this Silkboard junction is going to face a lot of pressure along both ORR and along Hosur Road.
The objective of this post is to bring interested people together to come out with some sort of design for this junction keeping in mind the above 3 and growth in volumes.
First we need to make sure we consider all the issues while making the design. Can we start by enumerating these considerations. E.g.
a. Where should bus stops be located in future - for Hebbal bound buses, for Hosur Side buses, for BTM bound and for City bound buses?
b. How will pedestrians negotiate this junction safely?
c. How will bus commuters change buses safely?
d. Should there islands to facilitate segregation of straight, left and right at different roads?
e. What about pavements? How wide, etc
Could people please add on.
Srivathsa
COMMENTS
idontspam - 28 July, 2009 - 18:36
In my opinion, this is not about guidelines but rather application of them to solve a problem. I dont see anything abstract. Silkboard jn has always been a major jn in the IT corridor and will continue to be (Praja has people with handles named after this famous jn). There needs to be allowances for dedicated bus lanes and that poses a challenge when personal vehicles are clogging the jn. We cannot avoid dedicated bus lanes at this place at the same time they need to pull over to take people without abruptly cutting traffic and causing chaos.
I feel there need to be bus stops near the jn on the ring road to collect people from HSR, BTM, JPN and beyond and these should be connected to bus stops on the Big10 route along hosur road heading towards EC and the city. First step is to mark these out. And indicate tunnels/walkways that will link these bus stops across each other. The bus stops shouldnt be too close to the jn so they end up blocking the jn at the same time need to be staggered to ensure hundreds of people during peak hour are not piling on a single 10 by 10 shelter.
This junction will play an important role.
muni_blr - 29 July, 2009 - 06:37
In my opinion this junction may see potential bottlenecks for sure if the authorities have not done half homework atleast. As a lot of layouts have been formed near and after electronics city, it will be a matter of time (at the max 5 years) when people will start inhabiting these areas.
As you approach the silkboard junction from madivala towards hosur road after the police station and wipro office building there seems to be a lot of land available to the left side which touches ring road teachers colony side. Am not sure if it belongs to the government or not and if it does , it can me made use of.
One more question: Are there any plans to make the stretch from madivala till checkpost 2 way as i feel that may be required.
On the pedestrian front also, long term planning and execution is very much essential and we cannot think of something concrete unless we have some data on the current plans and future plans for transportation.
srkulhalli - 29 July, 2009 - 05:42
IDS,
My mistake. By abstract, I was intending is this just an informal excercise for ourselves or is this something solid we want to do (link up with ABIDE for example)
Of course junction design is very important and yes it is the application of guidelines. If we want to do a good job its a time consuming thing - just wanted to make sure our time is worth it
pathykv - 29 July, 2009 - 05:42
BMTC have requested City Connect/ Janaagraha to redesign this junction and some plans have been made. I have talked to concerned people at Janaagraha and they are willing to discuss with praja.
I have also talked to Mr. Pranav & Mr. Rithesh.
Tentatively a meeting is being thought of on Saturday, 1st Aug.
Those interested to join may pl. indicate their willingness.
K.V.Pathy
Silkboard : Is this an abstract excercise ?
srkulhalli - 28 July, 2009 - 16:50
Have all the guidelines and have documented them - however is this an abstract excercise - it can be quite time consuming to do something like this and may not be worth it if it is not going anywhere
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