Case Study - ORR/KR Puram Chaos

silkboard - 23-SEP-2009

A book page to group together good threads of analysis/discussion on Outer Ring Road and Old Madras Road merge and de-merge chaos chaos near KR Puram Railway station.

ORR choking near KR Puram station - one reason

idontspam - 23-SEP-2009

Speaking of KRPuram shouldnt this entire length be only 2 lanes wide? Why are they allowing the use of the entire pancreatic bulge before the chicken neck? There should only be as many lanes as allowable for the entire stretch. So what do the "engineers" in the BBMP think when they lay asphalt? Do they know their profession has a meaning?

KR Puram Bus Stand - Does it exist?

Sunil Kumar - 21-SEP-2009

I would like to share with you all a bitter experience. On Saturday I was in KR Puram area at around 5pm & was waiting for a bus to Hebbal. It started to pour I would not believe there is no shelter for passangers to stand at all. It poured for over 1 hour I had to cross the road & stand under the ATM counter for a roof.

3-day experiment reveals a lot

mcadambi - 16-SEP-2008

Source: http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/16/stories/2008091659250300.htm Some positives, some negatives, IMO:

Positives:

KR Puram bridge area - Good going traffic police!

silkboard - 18-MAR-2009

I have waited to post this, 3 weeks to be precise because I want. After after our street photography adventure at OMR/ORR junction, I have been noticing a few changes at this junction of junctions.

Benniganahalli bridge work underway

srinidhi - 24-FEB-2009

Finally!! http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Bangalore/Underbridge-road-on-NH-4-to-be-widened/articleshow/4179483.cms

Any idea if the pedestrians are taken care of?? If not, we need to immediately get their attention on this!

KR Puram meeting - pics

silkboard - 14-FEB-2009

7 of us showed up, 6 in one batch and 1 on his own (came to know later) for this event. Met Kannan for the first time and speaking to him made it clear that he has given detailed thoughts to possible solutions for this chaos. He will soon be scanning and posting his sketches here.

Meeting near KR Puram bridge (Feb 7)

silkboard - 3-FEB-2009

One suggestion from Safe Passage folks (CKannan, psaram, sheragu) was to organize a street event at the spot. Lets try it this Saturday (Feb 7, 10 AM). This isn't a protest - no holding-placards or slogan shouting type of stuff. Lets do some street photography, scan the area for all possible violations of (IRC) road building, design, signage standards, discuss solutions on the spot.

A solution for eastbound OMR/ORR lanes

Transmogrifier - 20-JAN-2009

The mess at Bennigannahalli is a 2 km microcosm of what haphazard (if any) planning can result in- apathy (and sometimes antipathy) to public transportation, lane indiscipline, poor forethought (narrow RUB; non-existent pedestrian infrastructure) and bad design (Cable-stayed bridge) to name a few. However IMO some solutions are not that far away.

The joys of crossing a road

silkboard - 13-JAN-2009

The pedestrian chaos at ORR-Old Madras Road interchange can'tt be stated in words, so I tried this video last week (find it below). The place is a live example of collaboration, lack of it rather, between multiple sarkaari bodies. Bring this up with a babu in Bangalore and instead of ideas or initiatives, you will get stories of how things can only fall between NHAI, Railways, BDA, and the Traffic Police but not improve. Oh yeah, the job of taking initiatives is best left to the citizens.