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Meeting with Mr Sood, ACP Traffic, May 22

22 May 2010 14:00
Asia/Calcutta
Enforcement

Traffic enforcement being the ever popular 'issue', I had requested for Mr Praveen Sood (Assistant Commissioner of Police, Traffic) for some time to hear him on two subjects

Enforce traffic rules rigidly

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Traffic and IMV act violations: in Bangalore GALORE!

It is routine to see red light jumping, oneway violations, parking violations, slow moving vehicles in the outer most lanes,wheeliing which recently cost lives,  cell phone driving, overloaded 2/3 wheelers especially with young innocent children whose lives are endangered. Recently I saw a horrifying one motorcycle with SIX on it- 2 adults 1 kid in between and 3 kids on the gas tank. Under aged driving, tinted glasses, defective number plates( a new breed of glaring LED number plates combined with reflecting italics  small number plates makes identification impossible even from a 3 foot distance of an immobile 2 or 4 wheeler fitted with this kind of number plate.-video attached), kannada only number plates on autos and taxis, no side boards are all designed to evade identification and hence irresponsible behaviour.

Autorickshaw,taxi malpractices damage Bengaluru image irrevocably

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About Autorickshaw/taxi  coolie malpractises that damage the city's image, we the citizens were very pleased to hear of transport minister's initiative to control Auto Rajas ruling the city roads  and tarnishing the city image by their rude

Ban honking - proposal

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Dear Honorable Authorities in power who can do something, You all are also victims of all these problems facing us 24/7. and you have the powers to make a difference.

Please DO.
 
Enclosed a request to Ban honking in Bangalore, submitted to prior authorities 3 years ago. without any perceptible results so far.

1) Honking: The problem has become extremely  acute because between then and now almost EIGHT LAKHS (800 per day x 1000 days) have been added in to the unchanged 4,500 kms roads of Bengaluru. These have added almost 1.5 MILLION TONS of pollutants (1500 tons/day) into the air around Bangalore.

Every honk disturbs 8000 individuals at the present rate of population density in Bangalore. Honking has been known to encourage reckless driving rather than being an index of careful driving. No accident has so far occurred due to proven failure to honk. Infact all accidents honking does happen but accidents still occur probably due to recklessness arising out of overconfidence in honking.

ಹಾರನ್ ಬಳಕೆ ನಿಷೇಧಿಸಿ

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ಈ ಕೆಳಕಂಡ ವಿಷಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಭಾವ ಬೀರಬಲ್ಲ  ಶಕ್ತಿ ಮತ್ತು  ಅಧಿಕಾರವಿರುವ ಮಾನ್ಯರೆ,
 
ನಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲರಂತೆ ನೀವೂ  ಈ ಶಬ್ಧಾಸುರರ , ವಾಹನಸುರರ   ಕ್ರೌರ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ೨೪/೭ ಯಗ್ನಪಶುಗಳಾಗಿ
ಆಹುತಿಯಾಗುತ್ತಿದ್ದೀರಿ.
 
 
ಆದರೆ ನಿಮಗೆಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಇದನ್ನು ತತ್ಕ್ಷಣ ಬದಲಾಯಿಸುವ ಸಾಮರ್ಥ್ಯವಿರುವುದರಿಂದ ನಿಮ್ಮನ್ನೂ ಪಾರುಗಳಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು , ನಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲರನ್ನೂ (೧೦೦ ಜನಗಳಿಗೆ  ಕೇವಲ ೫ ದೇ   ವಾಹನ ಉಪಯೋಗಕರಿರುವಾಗ ) ಉಳಿಸಿರಿ ಎಂದು  ಈ ಮೂಲಕ ಪ್ರಾರ್ಥಿಸುತ್ತೇವೆ.
 
೧)  ಹಾರ್ನ್ ಗದ್ದಲ: ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರತಿನಿತ್ಯ ೮೦೦ ವಾಹನಗಳು ರಸ್ತೆ ಎಂಬ  ಯುದ್ಧಭೂಮಿಗೆ  ಇಳಿಯುತ್ತಿವೆ.
ನನ್ನ ೨೦೦೬  ರ ಮನವಿಯಿಂದ ಈಗಿನತನಕ ಸುಮಾರು ೮ ಲಕ್ಷ ವಾಹನಗಳು ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿ ಸುಮಾರು ೩ ಮಿಲ್ಲ್ಯನ್
೪೫೦೦ ಕಿಲೋ ಮೀಟರ್ ರಸ್ತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ತುಂಬಿಕೊಂಡಿವೆ. ಅಂದರೆ ಪ್ರತಿ ಕಿಲೋಮೀಟರಿಗೆ  ಸುಮಾರು  ೭೦೦ ವಾಹನಗಳಾಗುತ್ತವೆ. ಇವು ಪ್ರತಿನಿತ್ಯ ನಮ್ಮ ಪರಿಸರಕ್ಕೆ ೧೫೦೦ ಟನ್ ವಿಷಾನಿಲಗಳನ್ನು ಉಗುಳಿ ನಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲರ ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ಹಾನಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿವೆ. ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ  ಪ್ರತಿ ಚದರ ಕಿ.ಮಿ. ೨೩೦೦೦ ಜನದಟ್ಟಣೆಯಿಂದ   ಒಂದೇ ಒಂದು  ಹಾಂಕ್ ನಿಂದ  16000 ನಿರಪರಾಧಿ ಕಿವಿಗಳು ನೊಂದುತ್ತವೆ.

ವಾಹನಾಸುರನ ಬಲಿ ಪಶು ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ೧: ತಡೆಯುವುದೆಂತು ?

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ವಾಹನಗಳಿಗೆ ಜೀವ ಇಲ್ಲ ದಾನವತ್ವ ದೈವತ್ವ ಚೇತನ ತುಂಬುವ ಶಕ್ತಿ  ಅದನ್ನು ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಮಾನವನಿಗೆ ಇದೆ..

Pedestrians Right of Way

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Bangalore is such a civilized city populated by the highly educated working class. But in most civilized cities around the world motorists, motorcyclists, scooterists ... give the right of way to pedestrians, but alas not in Bangalore. Why is this so?

To illustrate a point. I was recently in California, as an invitee to the Stanford University, Palo Alto. The morning walks required I cross the famous El Camino Real highway. Crossing an exit is a dangerous experience. But each time all manner of folks would stop their car and wave to me to cross over. What humility. And I am certain half these folks were not as educated as our gentile in Bangalore. Few  folks go to college in the US.

In Bangalore the abusive horns of our motorists seem to shout at high pitch, "move out, or be run over". What a shame.

I have aged and cannot move out fast. I am not angry, but I feel sad. My wife keeps reminding me to look out. And I even have to do so for cyclists.

Agara Flyover

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Can someone tell when is the flyover construction at Agara junction to be completed ?

Vehicles must be allowed to take right from this junction at 27th Main. Also the one way implementation at 27th main HSR layout is not justified. AFter entering 27th main the road joining the agara village (1st cross) must be left open to public so that all vehicles need not go round about route. Few suggestions to improve traffic are -

  1. Allow right turn at 27th Main
  2. Allow LMV vehicles to go straight at agara/27main junction
  3. Extend 2 ways on 27th main till 1st cross
  4. Remove all the blockings made at 8/9/10/11 cross on 27th main and allow normal flow of traffic
  5. Re-route BMTC bus to paringipalya via Agara at earliest

Mr Praveen Sood, can we do a Monthly Enforcement Day?

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On the lines of Bus Day, where citizen groups and volunteers support BMTC in executing a real on-ground event, will Bengaluru Traffic Police be game to lead us for a "Traffic Enforcement Day"?

In theory, BMTC should treat every day as Bus Day, and traffic police every day as enforcement day. But we know the realities. But then, what could be special in this once a month event? Some possibilities would be:

How about BOT Traffic Signals and Signs?

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 After seeing elevated hosur tollway, I started thinking why not BTP can try BOT with traffic signs,signals, road signs.  

Silly? Not really? Why?

The idea/concept is to convert rule-breaking nature of people into revenue for short period, or till people become alright. Imagine every rule-break ,except non-humans :) , specially where is there is a clear signage/signal is fined/collected without fail. Example : in my short travel of 30 mins,today I noted at least 20 rule breaks where there was a signal/signage. Let us say minimum of 20*Rs. 100= Rs.2000 is fined and collected. 

I noted following where was clear traffic sign/signage:

 

1) Passing Red light : 5

2) Left turn where not allowed : 3

3) Leftmost lane vehicle right turning right. Lane is marked clearly with a " -> " sign. : 2

4) Crossing stop lines : 10

5) I did not observe for other rule-break.

 

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