Alternate Road to Bannerghatta Road - Continued
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Written By bangalorean - 17 August, 2007
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Last week, there was a good post suggesting an alternate route to Bannerghatta Road (see here). Today i am raising the same topic in a little more detailed way. The photo below shows the map from google maps.
The line in green is an existing road, and the green circle at the bottom of the photo is the Vijaya Bank colony. There is a nice double road till the Vijaya Bank colony, but unfortunately that road ends couple of hundred meters past Vijaya Bank colony. Yellow line shows how that road can be connected.
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I heard from couple of people that, there was a litigation over a piece of land on which the road was to be constructed. I also heard from people that an un authorized building has been built which is obstructing the path.
Because of this land litigation {Or i can say due to foolishness of one of the apartment builder and some BMP officials who have pocketed money}, thousands of people are going to sacrifice their peace, money and petrol to cover couple of extra miles daily to reach Bannergahtta road and once again join back the BTM road (shown in green lines) which touches BTM lake and intersects Hosur road much ahead of BTM petrol bunk.
Can we build a road as shown in the yellow line, may be more diversions are needed.
I will post some more photos of where the road has been ended... watch this column.
Hats off to those who have been a part of this...
--Cheers
Bangalorean
folks, this discussion is getting interesting. at one level this is an opportunity, at another level an example for BDA's failure to plan. how could they parcel off such a large piece of cake between bannerghatta rd and hosur road without any consideration to connectivity?
is the builder of that apartment really at fault, if BDA didnot have the foresight to see bottlenecks?
visitor, i could gather from aerial google earth survey, whatever you said. i was thinking about it. a small bridge could serve the purpose. perhaps there are JNNURM funds.
but have to wait for bangaloreans full details before we can discuss this further.
bangalorean, do consider moving this to a book. i could do the leg work, just need your permission.
are you talking about advaita petrol bunk on the ORR? so you are saying from ORR 29th main could take you down to BTM without taking a deviation to Bannerghata?
Nope
Visitor -
21 August, 2007 - 03:44
This road would connect from the BTM lake road, you have to take left from just couple of hundred meters after silkboard junction on ORR Road, and much before Advaith Petrol bunk.
This road will just go parallel to the BTM lake and takes a right turn, which connects to the Mantri apartments on Bannerghatta road.
If this road instead of taking right, cuts through the lake, may be using some bridge and connects to the vijaya bank colony road (May be Visweswariah Road) which is a big double road, runs all the way to Hulimavu and Ends before Hulimavu Lake.
If this road is extended beyond hulimavu lake, then it will to take half the traffic from banneghatta road. If they create one more connection to Hosur Road from the BTM lake road, parallel to ORR Road, it will take away some more traffic from ORR road, near silk board junction.
The only problems i see today is lack of parallel road connection, which people can take or traffic can be diverted. Where ever you go this is a problem in bangalore, which shows a big and serious lapse of planning on part of who ever they are!!
hi,
since you are using google earth why not markup on that and post upload the kmz? that way we can see the changes and exchange maps more easily. for those without GE, we can post a snap shot too.
if you would like that, we could also move this discussion to a "book" so that it can have book pages for each revision. (
see this to see how a book works)
we could tie up silkboard's blog and your discussion together in a book to begin and then go on add pages as new ideas come up.
but this is interesting this could run all the way down to begur road. how good is the begur road?
Let us do this first. I will post all the phone numbers, email ids, URLs of relevant bodies where we can post this question. We will ask the exact same question, post the exact same query. If 20-30 of us do it, there is no way we wont be heard.
But, somebody from the area (somewhere aroun vijay bank colony) must be one of the participant in this.
Let me make this comment into a post or a poll and see how many will be interested in participating, which is as simple as clicking on a URL and posting a question, or emailing the question to an email id.
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