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Written By srinidhi - 27 July, 2011

Bangalore Mysore Road Citizen Reports Transportation Infrastructure Flyovers and underpasses flyovers hump

Bangalore has the dubious distinction of some of the worst implementations in infrastruacture..

  • Only city to have traffic signal in the middle of a flyover
  • Most flyovers have more traffic below than on the flyover
  • U-turn on a signal free road
  • Build underpasses without a need or a traffic study

The list is way too big..but adding to this list is one more change that BBMP has done..this is having..

  • 6 Humps on a single stretch of a flyover

This has been done on the mysore road flyover..initially when L&T implemented the project, one of the best implementations should say, they had joints at regular intervals with a rubber joint..

This was more to take care of the seasonal expansions and shrinkages and also to drain water..this was working well for many years and as all projects would need maintenance..this rubber joints also needed replacement..

lo..here enters our awesome 'engineers'..in order to save money on the maintenance contracts they started asphalting the joints..this would regularly give way because of the rubber below and they would patch it up again..

Now after all experiments..they have done the ultimate..they have put humps on these joints..6 of them each way..its a complete implementation with zeebra stripes and all..see below!

One other mistake they did with this was the timing..monsoon is a very bad time for road works..think Siddiah knows this very well..but they still did

Now traffic slows down hopelessly on this flyover just because of these dumb humps..and some of these humps have already lost shape due to the original rubber base below..

All in all they have achieved another feat in proving that BBMP can do innovations which can get into record books..albeit they proven as disaster!!

 

COMMENTS

 Can you accomplish that? We

idontspam - 27 July, 2011 - 09:11

 Can you accomplish that?

We have already, people who have nothing to hide and truly care to listen are already listening/reading. Others are busy making money on useless projects with no outcomes, so sensible stuff can be given a go by. 

We have a newsletter that we send, maybe we can send it to BBMP as well. 

its a complete implementation with zeebra stripes and all.

Who in his right mind takes a walk on a flyover with no destinations on it? Secondly who will cross over to the other side in the middle of the flyover & what for? Why do you need to slow down traffic 6 times on a flyover sending shockwaves and causing backups? On the other hand there are stretches on the surface where people cant cross at all !!! Where are the zebras & horses on the surface?

Missing item from your list of "einstein-ish" ideas...

mp - 30 July, 2011 - 06:56

At least two Bangalore roads where the traffic direction is reversed. ON both these roads you are expected to drive on the right side of the road. In fact this has caused the ridiculous situation that in one of these roads the bus stand is on the median because the bus doors open on the median side and not the pavement side. 

 

12cr for a small useless job

idontspam - 1 August, 2011 - 10:53

12cr for a small useless job like this is really atrocious.

This is how the people are swindled, hard earned tax going to peoples pockets. Most of these projects are essentiallworthless in terms of outcomes, some like these are actually counter productive, & exist only to allow people to make money on some pretext. Doesnt this amount to robbery under IPC? or atleast cheating? 

There was a maintenance tender worth ~ 12 crores

ramesh_mbabu - 31 July, 2011 - 08:43

I could not get the exact details about the tender, but the total amount was around 12 Crores. Refer http://tenders.indiamart.com/details/813556737/ . Did not know that these 12 Crores is for a pair of humps.

So there's no pedestrians there? (obviously)

akauppi - 27 July, 2011 - 06:53

This reminds me of a joke about "hölmöläinen" (Finnish for "dummers"), who do things like extend a carpet by cutting a piece from the other end... There's plenty of those in our folklore but we try not to behave like it today.

Such stupidity is really not having any grounds in today's world. We need smart solutions. And smart enough people. And smart enough managers. And politicians (...the list goes on).

Now that Praja works as a "citizen police" to highlight such idiotic occurances, you have half of the feedback loop. The other half is to get the city officials / transport planners involved, and *participating* on this very site. Can you accomplish that?

-asko

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