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Written By rs - 1 March, 2009

Traffic Bangalore Roads parking Media Reports Commercial Street Pedestrian Infrastructure Mobilicity

I saw this in the times of India today. Perhaps some good will come out of it - and perhaps similar surveys should be made in the Brigade Road/Church Street area - the link to the actual news article is timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Bangalore/Make-Commercial-Street-traffic-free-Survey/articleshow/4209856.cms

Some snippets:

... Commercial Street is not a thoroughfare ... it should primarily cater to pedestrians and not vehicles. However, only 32% of the road space is available for pedestrians ... automobiles carry only 24% of the people coming in, but hog 68% of the road space ... 42% of the road space is used for parking by just 2% of the people ... Half of this 42% is used by slow moving cars that drop off shoppers and crawl along waiting for parking space to open up ...

Ramesh

[PS: Edited this post. Please don't paste full newspaper articles, thats unethical. Best is to provide a link with a short summary or member's commentary on top - {moderators}]

COMMENTS

Simple but hard to realize

psaram42 - 2 March, 2009 - 07:39

Some ideas are simple but hard to realize. This one is an example. Other one was the spread sheet. We used it much before it was available as MS spread sheet.


PSA

Gandhi Bazaar Main Road and

Arun - 2 March, 2009 - 05:09

Gandhi Bazaar Main Road and part of DVG Road qualify, while making most of the by-lanes no-parking zones; Sajjan Rao Circle by lane catering that serves food on the street is also one such road; some serious traffic management at Kathriguppe shopping area too is required.

Bummer

idontspam - 1 March, 2009 - 21:13

This was an absolute no brainer. It has been that way since I was in school. Especially commercial street made sense to be pedestrianised. We shoud do the same with Avenue road make it traffic free instead of knocking off  piece of history.

Now, the Numbers Speak Up

Naveen - 2 March, 2009 - 03:47

Great ! This has been long overdue & the people's verdict confirms it with a survey.

Along with Commercial Street,  Brigade Road, Sampige Rd, Streets around Jaynagar shopping complex, Chickpet area including Avenue road & Gandhinagar should also be pedestrianized, step by step.

Only Hop/On-Off buses must be routed past Brigade rd, Commercial street, Gandhinagar & Chikpet areas. Pedestrians & children can move about freely without terror of cars or two-wheelers.

For Jaynagar complex area, the 4th block bus station is adjacent & buses can be allowed on the streets around the complex. Private vehicle movements will need to be restricted as the place is quite a mess. Sampige rd is more or less a market area, but is also being used as a thoroughfare. Something needs to be done here as well.

Pre-Historic spreadsheets

idontspam - 2 March, 2009 - 08:25

 PSA, Were you trying to build one in NAL or ADE? Can you blog about it somewhere and give a link here so I can read your experiences?

 

More related to this thread... why is it hard to realize a ped only street? Especially in Bangalore? Why havent we done it already when rest of the world has done it.

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