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Written By tellvkb - 25 July, 2007
Daily we see a lot of traffic jams in most of Bangalore roads. It almost takes 30 min to reach silk board from St.John hospital road. The major reason for this is due to one way introduced by traffic police. We also see lot of jams at Koramangala last bus stop as many people want to take a right turn to reach airport road.
Even though the roads are big enough they are not being utilized properly. The greatest example for this is road b/w Jakkasanda and St John hospital. The service road on one side is not at all being used. The service road has 2 lane roads and one lane road is used as foot path. If this road is properly renovated the traffic flow can be reduced to large extent. Why can’t we introduce the concept of “Transit Way” in Bangalore roads wherever it is possible? I guess this might reduce the traffic a bit.
- Introduce one lane transit way from St John junction to silk board which is currently one way road. Allow only BMTC, KSRTC and private company buses in this lane.
- Introduce transit way in service road from Jakkasandra to Krupanidhi College. Allow only BMTC, KSTRC buses in this lane.
- Transit way can be introduced from St John junction till Jakkasandra bus stop
Will this concept work out in Bangalore?
COMMENTS

shas3n - 25 July, 2007 - 08:32
-Shastri

Hi vkb, please consider reformatting your post to remove unnatural line breaks.
coming to your post, this is the bottleneck SB has been discussing and predicts will only worsen once the the tollway is done bcoz two streams at different rates will then merge south of silkboard.
I agree transit lanes can help buses and could help other traffic too. Perhaps they can extend these bus lanes consistently all the way south along NH.
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