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Like it or not, with the Advent of Magic Boxes on Bellary road, the out cry of connectivity to new airport diminished. The Fact is that it has greatly contributed to the reduction is Travel Time to reach the Airport. Definitely it could have been Engineered and Executed a Lot Better. i would like to generalize the last statement to most Infra projects in Bangalore; be it KR puram hanging bridge, Hebbal Flyover ...

 In my view , it is impossible to have BRT on bangalore Roads (not wide enough for BRT). Implementing Bus Priority is a day dream, given the record of our present conditions. Come to the ORR, you find The Traffic Police barely able to Manage, the maxi cabs, autos, Bus Bays hardly used and public converting Traffic Signals to BMTC stops and the ever growing traffic pile up.

As far as Better busing, although Vayu Vajras sounds great in theory, the number of air passengers using it to reach the airport is very very few. It appears that Bangalore prefers Door to Door pick up and drop.

Regarding Pedestrians Getting Hit, Forget Highway or Single Free Roads, Crossing even our Common 60ft Roads, Walking inside my area Main Roads is also big risk today. Even the Humps don’t deter much . some one was stating this as the "mentality of the current generation". sometimes i feel the traffic chaos has made the people mad.  A total overhaul required in the change driving sense of people.

The total of Pedestrianization, Better Driving common sense should be Separate thread of Discussion.  the idea of Traffic Marshalling  presented by Murali Sir is a good step towards managing this menace.

Going back to the subject, i believe Bangalore requires some grade separators. it seems to be necessary surgery. We need to work on it success how it can be as painless as possible for the people living nearby while it delivers it intended results. Knocking it down based on theoretical suggestions may not be prudent

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Thanks for posting this, I support making corridors signal free. I wish they do corridor improvement and include pedestrian, cycle and dedicated light rail/BRTS lanes along with this. If these facilities are not provisioned for it will become expensive to change later.

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- why is such a huge project not being taken up when an elected council is not in place?

- no public consultations were held

- NUTP, a draft (semi-draft?) of karnataka's transport policy, union  minister for urban dev., all say moves to encourage pvt. transport should be avoided. why then are we going for this?

- where will they get the funding for this?

- what sort of facilities will they give pedestrians? underpasses, overpasses are exclusionary and wont work. besides, its not just the issue at the junction..if you make the junction signal free, all the roads leading to/away from it will have continuous traffic. how will people cross there?

- this requires widening roads , which means homes, shops will be broken, trees will be cut.

i think its a terrible project, one which will permanently scar the city

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I feel like weeping!  BBMP can only see our city as a network of roads.

IDS - if you can get permanent residency in Sweden, I suggest you take it :) because you will not like what you see here.  BBMP is making a mess of our city.  Only an earthquake can save it now. 

Knowing BBMP's execution capability and capacity this will make our lives miserable for the next 3-4 years and then leave a permanent scar on the city.  Look at Bellary Road - the construction of those underpasses is so poor that they tilt sideways.  Wide roads with no lane markings, no uniform width of the road, etc.  The whole road looks so ugly and bare.  Or please see Seshadri Road and how ugly and uneven they have made it.

Take the Hosur Lashkar Road flyover.  All the traffic will pile up at (the old) Ashok Nagar police station after Vellara junction.  No details of pedestrian crossings, pavements,  Where will the Metro come up if indeed E-City is part of the plan?  Is the road wide enough to accommodate these underpasses? 

Or the Airport Road stretch. What happens when all this traffic goes past Vellara junction.  How are people going to cross Richmond Road?  What happens at Marathahalli Bridge? 

When the keeper of the city becomes its worst enemy then there is no hope.  Ironically this comes a few days after we do Mobilicity.

Srivathsa

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why is bbmp rpeating the same mistakes? Having grade separators and making roads signal free is not going to solve anything. A strategy of rewarding mass movement of people has to be followed. Signal free roads & grade separators for buses but not for normal traffic.

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