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'Magic' Box on Mysore road is probably being fitted at the deviation on to Ring road (earlier, a steel portable flyover had been planned there), or it could be deviation to Chord road, I guess. The height is larger, maybe to permit taller goods vehicles to pass.

As Srivathsa mentioned, these just provide the driver an illusion of speedy travel. In reality, the pile ups get moved further & get worse as too many vehicles will collect at the next intersection. This is a poor attempt to temper the drivers' mind & try to reduce cases of criticism & road rage. It can also be dangerous to pedestrians & other law abiding road users as there are many rash, irresponsible drivers who will try to drive too fast & end up causing havoc on the streets.

I wonder why the authorities are not using these for society's best interests, which is to use them exclusively for public transport buses. The degree to which the administration is willing to bend over to please vehicle owners is quite unimaginable.

I noticed that private vehicles are being permitted on MG road, but not public buses. The Hop-On/Off buses should have been routed through MG road, but they have been planned on Cubbon road since buses are now banned on MG rd with the ongoing Metro works. Many potential commuters that would have used these services for access to MG rd have thus, been ignored. This is another piece of evidence to suggest how poor the quality of administration is in the city. At least this new service should have been allowed access on MG road - it badly needs some good publicity, at start.

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When done with some long distance traffic plan in mind, like BBMP did for Bellary Road, these boxes did help, didn't they?

Are these new underpasses too part of some larger-distance traffic management plan - I am curious to know that.

Srivathsa, Naveen, possible to mark out the exact spots for these new magic box underpasses?

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IF you travel from Ganganagar to MG Road via Bellary road, you'll encounter:

1) A bottleneck at Mekhri circle. This is due to poor lane discipline.

2) Then you encounter a HUGE HUGE bottleneck all the way from Palace grounds to the BDA junction underpass. This happens because the 3-lane road narrows down to a 2-lane one. Traffic merges here, and results in a huge huge pileup. In addition, the entire bunch of vehicles coming from Malleswaram-Yeshwanthpur via sankey road joins this road, creating even more chaos.

3) Near Raj Bhavan, there is another gigantic traffic jam, and this happens because of a long long traffic pileup because of the Indian Express signal. This pileup is almost 750 meters long.

At the end of the day, have I benifited from these magic boxes, in terms of the amount of time it takes me to reach MG Road?

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The magic boxes on Bellary road are like a patch work on a dam about to burst.

The BDA office junction - the very first magic box is horribly designed. The BBMP has been re-laying the road over it every 2 months. The design is an eyesore, also it is too narrow and does not cater to future traffic needs.

The Cauvery theater junction underpass - 2nd magic box - slightly well though off - they re-tar the road every 3-4 months!!. The U-turn design is extremely bad - during peak hours, traffic piles up till the Windsor Manor bridge and moves at snail pace. It is too tough for buses to negotiate this sharp u turn.

The Ganganagar-CBI junction maggic box complex is yet to be fully completed. I dont see any miracle happening here - it will the same old story. Traffic moving out of Sanjaynagar into the city have to go through a narrow underpass - again it is too tough for buses to negotiate.

It is time BBMP reconsiders this magic box concept all together. The Ganganagar-CBI junction has been going for last 4-5 months and will take atleast another 3-4 months to be completed. With some better planning they could as well consider better designs (may be full fledged fly overs/underpasses) than these quick fix ones. Also these are more or less short term solutions - just postponing the eventual breakdown.

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6.5 m width, 4.5 m height, 1m depth.  I know they are building one of these illusions across Seshadri Road near Maharani's College to allow Palace Road traffic to flow uninterrupted to the next big jam at Basaveshwara Circle and for Seshadri Road traffic to pile up at KR Circle.

Srivathsa

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