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Jam under the Cable stayed bridge on the ORR -- The problem is due to 2 things -- 1) The U turn in front of KR-Puram railway station.  This must be shifted to the U turn under the ORR flyover after the railway station. This will reduce the daily evening jam for vehicles coming from Marathalli or Whitefield. 2) The parking lot for the railway station. There is the old bridge and dilapidated structures (marked as unused by railways themselves) next to this parking lot, which must be used as parking lot instead, and a section of the existing parking lot must be converted as road. This will remove the bottle neck and remove the merging of traffic. In fact, there is lot of railway space on the other side of the railway track (can be accessed by going over the Bridge and taking a left) for a parking lot(however, inaccessible it is, its still one)

These solutions must atleast be tried, considering that no major changes can be done now... when some intelligent people who constructed the Bridge never accounted for how the traffic would have to squeeze between the Bridge's pillars below.

 As for the RUB problem---Wish I knew who is responsible for it. I would have sat a dharna in front of the persons house. Actually, it doesn't take much time to construct or enlarge an RUB. I saw 2 new RUBs build beside an old one in no time, in front of Frazer Town police station, near my house. Is there a way we can take it up?

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There are three parties in the mix here, someone has to bring all on one same table to get to good solutions.

• SWR (Railway station)
• NHAI (Highway to Kolar - OMR)
• BDA (Ring Road)
• Traffic Police (to decide locations of signals and U-turns)
• Who else?

A new railway over bridge to take northbound traffic on ORR direct to OMR will help the jam near the packaging plant. At present, ORR traffic, most of which wants to stay straight on ORR must mesh with and cross OMR traffic, most of which wants to stay straight on OMR. This "meshing" is what causes the jams for the ORR anticlockwise traffic and OMR entering-city trucks.

 

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Has anybody heard about any bridge at the hoodi railway crossing?That crossing is really bad..and very narrow.

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OMR Road: As already mentioned the problem at ROB is the many lanes traffic merging into 2 lanes. The same problem exists at the place where Whitefield road merges with the outer ring road just before KR Puram (going towards kr puram from ITPL). The overall traffic slows down due to this in-appropriate merge of heavy traffic. ROB should be expanded for sure to solve this jam. The second one is at the start of the cable bridge due to heavy traffic piled up to go towards ITPL/Whitefield area. When the cable bridge was designed no one would have thought of heavy traffic movement on Ring Road compared to OMR?? White Field road (near KR Puram Railway station): The double road starting from KR Puram Railway station is heavily affected during peak hours due to the heavy vehicles (trucks) on this road. As implemented in hosur road, these heavy vehicle shouldn't be allowed during peak hours as a temporary solution till Peripheral ring road comes up. The main problem is the amount of people crossing at the KR Puram junction and at the start of the cable stayed bridge. I strongly believe that there is an immediate need to have pedestrian over-bridges one near the railway station, second near the start of the cable bridge (tin factory). Also public transport vehicles should be provided with separates bays (and there is enough space on both sides). But as a long term solution, 2 things come to my mind. First, currently many IT companies in the ITPL, Whitefield area provide transportation facility, but they all manage this themselves. This ends up with many-many smaller vehicles (read sumo,indica) on road. I am of the view that companies in this area should think of aggregating the employees from different companies and go in for bigger vehicles (read bus). That removes lots of smaller 4-wheelers from the road for everyones good. The 2nd phase of Metro connecting to Whitefield could (hopefully) have more n more people using less n less private vehicles.

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I travel everyday from KRPuram to Majestic and it takes me almost 1hr & 30mins to reach office.  Out of the total travel time, I spend 20-30mins @ benniganhalli RUB itself. I don't know whom to report / raise a complaint. Can anyone give the contact authority/address.

Also I heard that the SWR is reluctant to give permission for expanding the RUB - not sure how true this is, but with the given situation.. its a horrible experience everyday for all the commuters.

Awaiting help from the forumers to take this plight and find a permanent solution.

 

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