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Parking vs pedestrians - What about Brigade Road?
Written By rs - 12 April, 2009
Traffic Bangalore parking Brigade Road Media Reports amenities Pedestrian Infrastructure
I believe a similar survey (like Commercial St.)should be done on Brigade Road - at the very least they should ban parking on Brigade Road betweem MG and Residency Roads. Instead the govt seems to be planning on wasting money on yet another pointless plan
http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Apr112009/city20090411129531.asp
The 85 cars parked on Brigade Road cause terrific traffic problems on that small stretch of road. In my opinion the road should be closed to traffic and completely pedestrianized and instead cars can be made to go around Mayo Hall.
Even if this is not possible certainly they should not allow parking on the street and widen pavements for people - otherwise there is so much stress.
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Ramesh
COMMENTS
idontspam - 12 April, 2009 - 14:06
It is sad to see the rest of the CBD cant even get meters. BBMP should just put in meters themselves instead of waiting for private investors who are not coming. At least they will create parking inspector jobs.
Good thing if the VMS can indeed be made to work. My only worry is these become useless after a while as the data become unreliable. How many innovations have seen abandoned.
When are they going to start working on congestion charging?
idontspam - 13 April, 2009 - 08:45
We know historical parade ground will be lying vacant 24X7 except for two or three days in a year.
The military can allow the use for the rest of the days to the public by growing some greenery and putting up some furniture. They can open it up on the condition that it can be closed when the army needs to use it. We are grateful to them for Cariappa park and hope they do this also. Its best if Parade grounds lie with the army so it doesnt become a mess.
Bang on - why invest on a parking system?
silkboard - 12 April, 2009 - 11:12
I logged in to post about this same thing, as per TOI report, there are 85 car park spots, and the "empty spot indicator" system will cost Rs 35 lakh or upwards.
I rarely go to that side of town, is it true that no buses ply on this stretch of brigade road? On one hand, we want to popularize Hop on Hop off, Blue line etc services, and on other hand, we are investing in parking facilities right on top of this road in the downtown?
How much is the parking fee here? What responsibility has the shopkeeper association of this area shown so far to promote public transport? When this road was seeing rapid reconstruction (late 90s onwards and early 2000s), why did the renovated fancy buildings not include provision for parking in their basements?
With Big10 and Hop on Hop off buses, at least going to this shopping district is really easy. I mean REALLY EASY. Investing in parking is not going to send any right signals.
sanchitnis - 12 April, 2009 - 11:31
Any new planning on MG Road/Brigade road should take into account the Metro station and the HSRL to BIA.
I have not yet seen any traffic plan to support the increased number of cars. May be there need to be tunnels/elevated roads from the points where big-10 routes touch the proposed inner core ring road to HSRL terminus.
Yes we will meet on 2009 April 23rd
psaram42 - 16 April, 2009 - 03:14
I will be there at 11:00 hrs at lal Bagh West gate.
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