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IRC Road markings & signs

14 November 2008 - 9:26pm — asj

I am not doing a summary here of the IRC codes for road markings. I ordered a copy and got it yesterday and flipped through it. The norms / guidelines cover the basics well. Significantly, there is clear guideline on GIVE WAY - markings.

What will you prefer: Road over river or something like the Thames Valley Cycle Path

11 November 2008 - 12:11pm — asj

What will you prefer?

Freeways are Freeways and City Roads are City Roads

8 October 2008 - 1:44pm — asj
Traffic

Freeways are Freeways and City Roads are City Roads, there is no confusion about that.

By definition a Freeway is - FREE - of pedestrians / cyclists and T or cross junctions. Our planners have never either understood this or did not care or had ulterior motives.

Learning from Road Layouts

4 October 2008 - 6:42pm — asj
Traffic

Dear All,

I have for some time wanted to share how planning road layouts is vital for ensuring traffic flows smoothly.

Here is the first in what I hope to make a series (and hope other contribute too) of road layouts from UK. Aim is to share these observations with our planners to reduce entropy on our roads.

A Typical cross junction in UK

'Safe Passage' - for pedestrians at K R Puram, Benniganahalli

1 October 2008 - 9:48am — psaram42
2 Oct 2008 10:00
2 Oct 2008 11:15
Asia/Calcutta
Pedestrian Infrastructure

Please refer "Oct 2 meeting Note" on CKannan's initiative. The meeting is on. All are welcome who can make it at this short notice. The day happens to be auspicious.

The science of traffic jams

27 September 2008 - 11:45am — mcadambi
Good and informative article from 'The Economist' http://www.economist.com/...

FM Cariappa Road

10 September 2008 - 5:39am — tsubba

Ok, before we make suggestions, we need to be very explicit about what we understand about the road. Since, sri is the local malla complete with a high flung jeTTi and spread out rhetorical stance and all*, we start with what he said about this road. We keep in mind that beyond his generic description, which nevertheless gives us a feel for the road, we need explicit and detailed details. Srivatsa said:

Simple Solution to Ganesh Mandals and digging of the roads

1 September 2008 - 11:59pm — asj

We all agonise each year over roads being dug up by Ganesh Mandals (Lokmanya Tilak must be restless seeing what his efforts to pull the community have come to).

In the past, I have suggested that barrels are used to support bamboo pole's. One can either fill the barrels with sand and rubble to support the pole or even produce pre-fabricated barrels filled with concrete with a central gap to secure the pole. I have seen such pre-fabricated barrels in use in UK where they are used to erect temporary traffic lights during road works.

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'Killer' road humps

1 September 2008 - 2:50pm — swamy

Mr Chavan lost his son to bad road hump design. He used RTI to get information. Now he is planning to do PIL "seeking a High Court directive to the authorities to either remove the unscientific humps or relay them as per Indian Road Congress standards".

Read the inspiring story on Bangalore Mirror's new website. - Parent’s war on ‘killer’ road humps

Roads, streets, footpaths - design to implementation Resource hub

31 August 2008 - 10:28pm — asj

Hi! Thought we could collect, categorise, print and hand over every resource that details good practice with regards road / pedestrian infrastructure to our authorities. Lets not leave them with any excuse for executing yet annother bad job.

I know we have our IRC stuff floating about, but I find their work somehow falls short (and why wont they let people download stuff - they are limiting their ability of empowering citizens with this crazy policy).

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