Went past KR Circle at peak evening traffic yesterday evening. had been to Kaveri Bhavan and then took the Post Office Road to go to Cubbon Park.
It was a mess. Traffic that comes from KG Road along post office road needs to take a left and then a U turn and then merge with the traffic coming from Ananda Rao circle (never a break thanks to no signals). People wanting to turn right from Seshadri road are on the left, people wanting to go to Ambedkar Road and Cubbon park are on the right. Net result is extremely slow moving traffic. I did not have a chance to go down NT road - I can only imagine what the state must have been.
See this from expressbuzz
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=While+there+seems+to+be+no+end+to+traffic+snarls
Newly laid pavements have been dug up. No provision has been made for pedestrians to walk safely in the meantime.
BBMP should stay out of traffic engineering having proved its incompetence time and time again. I wonder who makes these designs, who approves them. What we want is reasonably smooth traffic and not an expressway inside the city. BBMP comes out with this hare brained scheme.
Please put the signals back. Let the circle remain - it is reasonably nice looking (in stark contrast to the ugly mess they have created all around!).
Srivathsa
P.S. I sometimes feel like crying seeing what BBMP has done to what was once a lovely city.
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In the name of widening..
so many wonderful old trees were cut around KR cricle..the canopy there was the best and even harsh summers were shielded compeltely for road users..
now its barren nothing..which has also turned into something useless!
I second the thought that BBMP has to keep away from doing anymore innovative cheap implementations and leave the roads to the experts..allmost all their works are uselessly designed!
Will they ever see BRT as a solution ?
I'm not surprised. The new airport road might be providing a fast ride to & from the airport, no doubt, but did they ever consider how it had impacted others that were passing on part of the road - say someone from Kumara park or Malleswaram to Shivajinagar ?
The answer is to reduce the no. of vehicles on the streets & not keep widening or building roads & installing magic boxes all the time - they will not last long without other interventions !
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How to drive around a 'round about'?
Found this nice video on using round abouts..KR circles desperately needs markings and road signs..
I think its not a bad design afterall..its just how we use it!
roundabouts
Good video, first they should make such clean junctions, second they should play these videos on TV since the RTO and driving schools dont know these things enough to test for them.
As you may have noticed most roundabouts are not designed for high speeds since banking the roads are not appropriate. The widening of roads and signal free junctions have made travel speeds higher which means the vehicles need to be told to slow down to atleast 5kmph above the roundabout limit before approaching it. Since you cant go from 60 to 20 in 100 meters the slow down has to start way early and in steps of 5 /10kmph so as not to brake too hard. Of course there will be complete stops at the entry of the roundabout when giving way to traffic already in the circle.
Thus, firstly, a roundabout, while is signal free, is not the same as stop free. Second, if we dont manage the flow smoothly, with appropriate education of how to drive in the roundabout followed by proper signage like lanes and speedlimit posts, there is bound to be chaos and backups due to jamming.