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Elevated Inner Core Ring Road - whats up?
Written By silkboard - 13 August, 2007
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Remember the Inner Core Ring Road (ICRR) project? Find some documents here in case you need to jog your memory. BBMP and newspapers haven't talked much about it lately, and then The Hindu carried this piece (steel structures favoured for ring road) a few days ago.
There was one thing that struck me as odd in that news peice. Chief Engineer (Infrastructure) of the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike is advocating use of steel structures to build the expressway and is also dreaming up a 3 level road:
"it could have three levels for vehicles to travel — the existing ground level, one for two-wheelers and another for four-wheelers, he said."
But then, two execution models are suggested:
"The project could be proposed under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission or be given out to private companies on a Build Own Operate Transfer basis."
BBMP's engineers are clearly thinking design, that probably tells us we shouldn't assume that ICRR will be developed on a BOOT basis. Is BBMP thinking of doing the project itself?
Please. No! BBMP, you have zero experience building and managing such roads. Don't think of doing it yourself.
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Naveen - 8 April, 2009 - 10:17
SB - Much called for. "Widening" roads here means eating up footpaths, uprooting trees & allowing free parking on the sides by adopting Laisse Faire & being by-standers, encouraging the chaos on the "widened" roads, instead of being regulators.
I think they should embark on a project to make a study & find out how best to manage the available street space that we already have, instead of claimimg before hand that they are insufficient & complain about encroachment by hawkers & the like.
We could also assist with such an initiative as we have representatives from several areas now, I guess !
Need a "road-space usage efficiency" drive
silkboard - 8 April, 2009 - 08:24
Just like B-TRAC, or as part of it, we need an year long drive/project to increase road-space usage efficiency. Things like consistent road width, extra width at "mouths" or intersections, evenly shaped pavements, parking enforcement, byelaw enforcement along road ribbon, better footpath to keep pedestrians off the roads (roads are smoother to walk on) - things like these.
I would guess that available road space in the city could go up by 30% via such a drive. Very little hard costs to this project, there would only be some noise and politics to deal with.
As Ashwin Mahesh, and Dasrathi sir say - no elevating or widening roads till we get our road space usage factor up to 90-95%.
Elevated Core Inner Ring Road - going going...gone?
s_yajaman - 8 April, 2009 - 07:39
Read this in bangalorebuzz.blogspot.com
"EXPRESS EXIT
The much tom-tommed Inner Core Ring Road and elevated expressways, which were supposed to remove gridlocks and save travel time by 50 per cent, have been shelved as the BBMP develops cold feet over imposing a users’ toll to recover costs
MANASI PARESH KUMAR "
Tunnel Road gone. Elevated Core Inner Ring Road gone. Next to go will be those elevated roads that were to come up from Silkboard to Hebbal and from KR Puram to Yeshwantpur.
Big 10 plan will make a complete mess of the CBD or what is left of it once BMRCL finishes it off.
Srivathsa
how to drive the "road-space usage efficiency" drive
blrsri - 8 April, 2009 - 13:54
BMLTA arguably is the best bet for resources who can talk with authority on what is right and the way to approach it..
BTRAC is good at advertising(still wondering why all sign boards need BTRAC written below it)..besides they do some implementations too..
Is there a way to work with these agencies and get results?
Naveen - 8 April, 2009 - 08:22
I never agreed with the idea of CRR from the start. No other city that I know of has experimented with such a bizzare idea (except for some american ones that are being condemned by the whole world now).
If you provide such exclusive elevated routes in the middle of the city, why invest in a Metro or other mass transit ? It's like paying for the same real estate twice with an invitation to cars to further wreck our city, not to mention the strangulation of the environment further.
Once an exclusive, faster PT system has been made available, where is the need for another exclusive road system ? The trucks & the cars & the through travellers can use the ORR or the PRR instead of a CRR, for sure. If it adds time to their travel, well, it's the same in all other cities too, is'nt it ? So, why show so much concern about it here in Bangalore ?
Look at what is happening in Bangkok & compare it with Singapore. If we put up a CRR, the Metro & the buses will be starved of that many users.
This is good riddance in my opinion & I hope that talk about elevated roads, tunnels & the club-pyramid project (roads over drains) in the city centers ends here & never sees a rebirth.
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