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Written By silkboard - 30 August, 2009

Bangalore BDA Citizen Reports Outer Ring Road Flyovers and underpasses

Noticed 2 BDA tenders on Karnataka eprocurement portal that tell us that work is in progress for more flyovers on outer ring road (ORR). Tenders call for "project management and quality assurance" for

  • ORR and 14th main of HSR layout
  • ORR and Bellandur
  • ORR and Devarabesanahalli
  • ORR at Kalyananagar junction
  • ORR and Veerannapalya junction
  • Cross road at Hennur junction

Well, good going as far as keeping the promise of converting ORR to an corridor/expresssway is concerned. However, I am keen to know more about the proposed public transport amenity on ORR - the BRT system. We saw BRT lanes were marked in the designs for the flyovers in progress on ORR/Sarjapur road junctions. Why is no concrete work planned for BRT on ORR yet? I would say this is the time - engage a BRT consultant right now while these floyovers/underpasses are being built.

I have this half suspicion that BRT lanes are being shown on ORR flyover designs for "on-paper" complaince with NUTP guidelines. Lets hope these suspicions aren't true, and the intention is serious and real.

Pasting the tender titles from eproc website, just in case I made any copy paste errors above:

  • BDA/EE(SplD-LPD)/TEN/2009-2010 - Consultancy services, for Project Management and Quality Assurance for • Construction of Flyover along ORR at Kalyananagar Junction. • Construction of Flyover along ORR at Veerannapalya Junction. • Construction of Grade separator with flyover along ORR & underpass for the cross road at Hennur Junction. Package-3, as per detailed Terms of Reference in Section 4 Page No. 24 to 27 of Bid documents for the entire construction period including extended period if any till final bill of the contracting agency is settled including renumeration, report, documentation, taxes, etc., complete (excluding service tax, which will be paid at prevailing rates).
  • BDA/EE(SplD-LPD)/TEN/2009-10 - Consultancy services, for Project Management and Quality Assurance for • Construction of Flyover along ORR at the junction of ORR & 14th main of HSR layout. • Construction of Flyover along ORR at Bellandur Junction. • Construction of Flyover along ORR at Devarabesanahalli. Package-1, as per detailed Terms of Reference in Section 4 Page No. 24 to 27 of Bid documents for the entire construction period including extended period if any till final bill of the contracting agency is settled including renumeration, report, documentation, taxes, etc., complete (excluding service tax, which will be paid at prevailing rates).

PS: Map feature is temporarily broken on this website, or else I'd love to mark out these points on ORR.

COMMENTS

Tender notification on the TOI monday abt commuter conveniences

dvsquare - 25 May, 2012 - 06:27

Hi,

I have seen this tender from BDA on monday in TOI.

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=TOIBG/2012/05/22&PageLabel=18&ForceGif=true&EntityId=Ad01806&ViewMode=HTML


It talks about providing commuter conveniences such as pedestrian crossings (skyway, subway), bus-shelters, rest-rooms, road furniture, street lights from Nayandanhalli Junction to Silkboard junction.

The questions is - Do we really get to see all these things evers? or BDA first time floated this kind of tender? And how shall we track this, as how is this going for next 15 years?

Deepak

Ask for DPR or design

idontspam - 25 May, 2012 - 06:55

Ask for DPR or design drawing... BDA/BBMP always run behind BOQ paying scant respect to design or geometry. We need to insist they make the designs available publically or get it evaluated by a third party engineering firm for IRC adherence. We could insist on TOR compliance map in the DPR but the TOR itself is so generic that it is useless.

Bottomline BDA/BBMP should be held accountable for the lax approach to the engineering, cant blame vendor for doing a ham handed job.

PS: couldnt find this tender in eproc under BDA

Priority Lanes for Buses and Public

j_venu - 13 October, 2009 - 19:26

Having Said that,

Priority Lanes for all  Govt Public Transport Buses (BMTC ), Private Buses ,  Car Poolers and High Occupancy Vehicles can be considered referring to the Picture posted above.

but Enforcement  Against Intrusion may be major issue.

BRT requires 2 dedicated Lanes

j_venu - 13 October, 2009 - 19:14

ORR is 3 Lanes.   BRT   would require to have 2 dedicated lanes which leaves only one lane for Other Vehicles.  2  Lanes for Buses are Required considering some of the buses are Slow Moving and Some Break Downs.  I dont think  that is BRT feasible option on ORR.

my feeling BRT  would be slowly forgotton ... on this stretch.

ORR-Hennur Rd BRTS Plan

Transmogrifier - 28 June, 2011 - 06:53

Appears from this document that the ORR-Hennur Main Rd junction is to become a underpass-flyover combo with at-grade level being reserved for BRTS facilities and all right-turns... unless I'm reading the plans all wrong.

Attempting to host this on Scribd... will embed it here when it's up.

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