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Written By s_yajaman - 30 March, 2009
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Read this in today's paper.
http://www.hindu.com/2009/03/30/stories/2009033059820400.htm
"Bangalore: Bangalore will soon have its widest magic box underpass for vehicular movement at K.R. Circle.
The underpass, to be built across the road leading into Cubbon Park at K.R. Circle, will have a width of seven metres. It will connect Ambedkar Veedhi with Nrupatunga Road and make the junction signal-free."
Anyone knows anything more about this grand plan? This is called kicking the can down the road. All the traffic piles up on Nrupathunga Road (near the signal at Hudson Church). Or do they plan another magic box so that this traffic keeps flowing? Imagine Cubbon park; it will become impossible to walk inside as traffic will flow non-stop. And it's not that all this will make car drivers more patient. They take uninterrupted travel as a birthright and BBMP panders to them.
Well managed signals can lead to smoother traffic flow. The problem with our traffic lights is that people don't wait in lines and in the correct lanes and hence traffic jams occur at the signals itself. This small fact seems lost on BBMP and its engineers. Any such structural intervention should follow detailed analysis.
How are pedestrians going to cross? There are colleges and plenty of government offices there. I plan to write to the ACP Traffic police and let's see how he responds.
Srivathsa
COMMENTS
Metro does not pass along Seshadri road
Naveen - 3 April, 2009 - 10:47
The Metro alignment will pass from KR circle along Post office road & reach Mysore bank & turn into KG rd (all underground). Space below Seshadri rd is not being used.
Why aren't detailed plans made public?
silkboard - 30 March, 2009 - 04:24
Enough is enough. Why are detailed traffic flow plans/designs not being made public? Outer ring road flyovers, junction elimination plans on corridors - we want all plans to be on bda/bbmp website. PLEASE, dont make us as well as you waste time on needless RTIs.
If the excuse is 'we dont have the time to share information', give the designs to us, we will scan/post and host them here for you. If detailed designs/plans are not made public soon, we will assume that bda/bbmp/abide (whoever) just don't have them and they are working in ad-hoc fashion.
PS: Ideally, we don't want to comment/criticize without seeing detailed plans, but are simply forced to do that..
Naveen - 30 March, 2009 - 04:25
The extension of this "signal-free" concept with "magic-boxes" will cause serious hardships for pedestrians, unless plans are afoot to include pedestrian welfare at KR circle. Any such construction must accord more priority for pedestrians than movement of vehicles. Facilities for movement of pedestrians must, so far as possible, be on an even surface.
If these factors are borne in mind during the design process, then they can go ahead with building these monsters - & shift attention for another one at Hudson circle - for that is what will most likely happen in a short time after this one is opened !
s_yajaman - 30 March, 2009 - 04:41
Please see this outcome of the effort to put flyovers all over Hyderabad to smoothen traffic. I remember in the late 90s when praise used to be lavished on Naidu for putting "flyovers all over" and Bangalore did not have any. And we came up with a few idiotic ones of our own.
Srivathsa
blrsri - 22 June, 2009 - 05:48
had a chance to ride thru the KR circle while coming back from the praja meeting..its pretty decent..hopefully this setup holds good in weekday peak traffic too!
Btw why is the maharani college underpass opened partially!?
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