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Written By Vasanth - 26 November, 2007

Traffic Bangalore BTRAC

State Government is engaged in just planning comprehensive traffic management plan for Bangalore for years together - Everything is on books - Nothing becoming to force except in very few countable cases. Simply Government is investing on tools such as Blackberry for traffic without any real application of it. Government should have seperate commitees for each and every locality who work along with the local residents and take a decision for that particular locality. Traffic managment should go to the microlevel and in discussion with the people of locality. There are so many traffic jams in small localities which are totally unnoticed by top police officials and the normal police men take advantage of it and do not do any management. I will give a simple example of Bank Colony. There is a junction near a hotel called Udupi Upahar on Bank Colony Main Road. There is always a Jam. Occassionally a police man appears here. This is an unnoticed locality - There is very poor traffic management - Not like Jayanagar which is given full preference. A full time traffic signal with a police man punishing the offenders can solve problem here. Second example is jam near KR Hospital of Srinagar - on the other end of the same road - Again unmanned which comes to the same judistriction of Hanumanthnagar Police Station - Here also very poor traffic management. There are 1,000s of such unmanned important junctions with 'always jam' kind of situation - without drawing any attention of the local police men. Again - enforcement of rules is not done properly resulting in lack of discipline in Traffic - Which is the first evil for Bangalore traffic. Very simple solution exists for most of Bangalore traffic problems - Implementation is the key. This implementation is badly needed. Government is trying to show us BTRAC - Metro - Mono dreams and getting away with the problem on hand.

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concrete

tsubba - 29 November, 2007 - 05:53

blrsri, bingo!!! i have been sitting on these slides for a while now. your post prompted me to action. this discusses bus stops, but applies to junctions also. see these. gimme some time i'll post your idea too.

manning

tsubba - 27 November, 2007 - 17:44

actually, even if all the metro,mono etc come upp the issue you raise still needs to be resolved. #1. increase manpower. #2. improve junction geometry and design. the question is do they have any guidelines or set of specifications even designed? right now the only working definition seems to be all intersections should have roads. :) how is it going to work? if a junction sees more than X vehicles/hour then this should be the design, if it sees more than Y vehicles/hour then this should be the design. i thought CTTP would address these types of issues too. It is just a general prescriptive document only. no details as such. one detail i saw way 6.75 meter 3 lane row for non-bus type of traffic. thats about 7 feet per lane. which i think is a good suggestion. but don't know if it is binding. if you have access to it, can you look at what IRC says about this? meanwhile here are some examples of others think about this problem. intersection design - texas intersection design - massachussets intersection design - florida you can look at TRB website for more detailed guides... here are some synopsis... http://rns.trb.org/dproject.asp?n=12658 http://rns.trb.org/dproject.asp?n=13450 (i have exact documents downloaded somewhere on my hard disk, but cannot find web links to them now.)

Great Information TS

Vasanth - 28 November, 2007 - 11:31

Very good info TS. Here in Bangalore we have lot of light poles correctly at the corners and we do have roads crossing each other at 45 degrees (example is Kattriguppe Main Road) - very strange - Lot of things to be learnt from other developed nations.

good point

silkboard - 28 November, 2007 - 18:41

good points Vasanth, and good stats Tarle. There is a nice write-up by Swati Ramanathan that talks similar things:Cities at cross roads

concrete-intersection

tsubba - 29 November, 2007 - 06:44

cant find my original drawing which had left slip lanes and ped crossing design. for now, this image from wiki has to do. it shows left turn lanes for right side traffic(for us it would be right turn lane). the area in red should be concreted.

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