OMR jam's

OMR Road: As already mentioned the problem at ROB is the many lanes traffic merging into 2 lanes. The same problem exists at the place where Whitefield road merges with the outer ring road just before KR Puram (going towards kr puram from ITPL). The overall traffic slows down due to this in-appropriate merge of heavy traffic. ROB should be expanded for sure to solve this jam. The second one is at the start of the cable bridge due to heavy traffic piled up to go towards ITPL/Whitefield area. When the cable bridge was designed no one would have thought of heavy traffic movement on Ring Road compared to OMR?? White Field road (near KR Puram Railway station): The double road starting from KR Puram Railway station is heavily affected during peak hours due to the heavy vehicles (trucks) on this road. As implemented in hosur road, these heavy vehicle shouldn't be allowed during peak hours as a temporary solution till Peripheral ring road comes up. The main problem is the amount of people crossing at the KR Puram junction and at the start of the cable stayed bridge. I strongly believe that there is an immediate need to have pedestrian over-bridges one near the railway station, second near the start of the cable bridge (tin factory). Also public transport vehicles should be provided with separates bays (and there is enough space on both sides). But as a long term solution, 2 things come to my mind. First, currently many IT companies in the ITPL, Whitefield area provide transportation facility, but they all manage this themselves. This ends up with many-many smaller vehicles (read sumo,indica) on road. I am of the view that companies in this area should think of aggregating the employees from different companies and go in for bigger vehicles (read bus). That removes lots of smaller 4-wheelers from the road for everyones good. The 2nd phase of Metro connecting to Whitefield could (hopefully) have more n more people using less n less private vehicles.

There is always a traffic jam here and added to this road under the bridge is in pitiable condition. I have some solution for this. Just construct wall (meridian) at the centre of the bridge extending bothways for about 20 feet. That means it will become single lane traffic lane. Definitely the movement will be a bit slow but not altogether it will standstill as af now. Alternatively barrier on the lines of rly level crossing on both sides of the railway bridge, at a convenient distance from centre of bridge,which should allow one way movement. The barrier may opened alternatively to allow traffic.

blrsri, I have tried this option 10 - 15 times in the morning and 50% of the times I got stuck near the hoody railway gate. The wait near the railway gate varies from 10 mins to 30 mins. The gate is narrow and is frequented by trucks, so this gate is prone to jams. The poor gateman has to double up as a traffic warden and some generous road-users too direct the traffic. I stopped using this route because of this prolonged waiting periods.

By the way new vajra volvo routes has been introduced -

500D - from hebbal to silkboard via KR Puram

500E - Hebbal to ITPL via KR Puram, Marathahalli, Sai Hospital.

I have started using 500E and it is qutie comfortable. It actually saves me the tension of driving in the maze called KR Puram. I talked to the conductor, he said these are buses actually meant for BIAL, but since the airport opening has been postponed, they are plying them on this route temporarily. These buses have around 30 seats with luggage racks in the front portion of the bus.

There are three parties in the mix here, someone has to bring all on one same table to get to good solutions.

• SWR (Railway station)
• NHAI (Highway to Kolar - OMR)
• BDA (Ring Road)
• Traffic Police (to decide locations of signals and U-turns)
• Who else?

A new railway over bridge to take northbound traffic on ORR direct to OMR will help the jam near the packaging plant. At present, ORR traffic, most of which wants to stay straight on ORR must mesh with and cross OMR traffic, most of which wants to stay straight on OMR. This "meshing" is what causes the jams for the ORR anticlockwise traffic and OMR entering-city trucks.