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"Road Dividers" or "Walls"?
Written By ssnkumar - 7 May, 2009
Traffic Bangalore Road Works BTRAC Complaint Road Dividers Pedestrian Infrastructure Mobilicity
Dear Sir,
Recently most of the important roads of Bangalore have been made double roads.
As part of that, "Road Dividers" have been placed in the middle of roads, so that the traffic gets streamlined.
This is a welcome move and helps.
But, the way these "Dividers" have been built is causing lot of problems.
I live on Kanakapura Road and I was travelling near 7th Block Jayanagar at around 8 PM.
The street lights on that road doesn't give enough visibility during nights.
And hence it was almost dark.
All of a sudden, I saw somebody standing in the middle of the road, that too it was only few meters from me.
Since, there was not much traffic at that moment, I was able to turn my car to left and avoid hitting the figure and then slowed down my car.
To my surprise, I saw a lady trying to cross the road and she had a small kid in her hand.
Since the road divider is almost 1.5 feet high, she was finding it difficult to cross and hence she was standing in the middle of the road.
I have also experienced the difficulty while crossing the Kanakapura Road.
The divider is very high and also narrow.
So, we cannot stand on that and if I try to jump in a hurry, I might fall down.
And traffic will be coming in both the directions and I am afraid to stand on one side of the divider.
I don't know, why such high dividers have been made and why these people haven't thought about the public (especially ladies with kids and elderly people).
Either the divider has to be widened, so that people can stand in the middle before crossing the other part.
Or crossing bays should be introduced every 50 meters where the hight is reduced and divider is widened and people can easily cross the road.
Otherwise, there could be accidents and people might lose their precious life and authorities might open their eyes after that.
Regards,
Narendra
COMMENTS
idontspam - 8 May, 2009 - 16:22
Crossings near bus stops..atleast one 150 mts apart..is that too big to ask?
No if it makes sense we should ask for it and get it. I dont know about 150mts but definitely near bus stops given that we want to encourage people to walk and use PT.
idontspam - 8 May, 2009 - 16:28
Ask the authorities and they will tell you that only vehicles have the right of way on roads and damn those pedestrians!
In a way they are right. Vehicles have ROW on roads and Peds on Sidewalks/footpaths. Unfortunately we use both interchangably.
blrsri - 8 May, 2009 - 16:43
I was referring to the peds crossing or trying to cross the street..cos thats what this post was about I guess..
Its a different question if footpaths are at all available for peds..cos they are a parking place for the cars and other vehicles!
idontspam - 8 May, 2009 - 16:47
If ROW is for vehicles only
Please remember Peds have ROW on ped xing since it is a ped facility. A zebra crossing is not "A" road it is "ON A" road but it is a ped facility. So when people are using it they have right of way and cars have to stop.
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