jiggy3s @ youtube on the KR Puram Bridge.
This is the supermaze of all. Mayhem is not even close to describe the traffic chaos that happens here every day between 8 am and 9 pm.
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2 major flyovers , one end of a cable stayed 2 KM long bridge, 8 - 12 lane roads, and a narrow 2 lane railway bridge which bisects the 8 lane old madras road, village roads crossings to stop arterial traffic before and after the railway underpass, a 30 feet road leading to a area of 50 blocks as an arterial road to this region, another low lying layout build on a lake with just 20 feet road making way to 8 blocks of residential layout with 100s of apartment(all 5+floors), massive truck traffic in the city during the day, 3 major bottlenecks at the both the ends of this 1 KM stretch and one in between, a bus stop at the beginning of the bridge, 8 lanes of a 12 lane road encroached by indiscriminate parking, 2 lanes of the arterial OMR encroached as a railway platform and auto rickshaw stand, all this in a place over which the most expensive cable stayed bridge of bangalore was made only to render it useless. welcome to Old madras road, the epitome of the word which is a super-superlative of word mayhem - Bangalore traffic.
do you think we are crazy? and its anarchy in this country. no we are the self proclaimed greatest democracy of this world.
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benniganahailli stretch effort
Ok..looks like some work is underway to widen this bridge and then what?
All the vehicles will get stuck at the next junction under the hanging bridge!
This bottleneck has to be taken care of or else it will be wasted effort if they widen the b.halli bridge alone!
Widening the bridge alone
point taken
True..the traffic is always worse on the opposite lane moving from hanging bridge into city..However widening the bridge might not solve everything..
This is because the current situation made worse because of the intersection right after the bridge. There are two major problems at this junciton..
1. Pedestrian traffic, crossing the road to reach either side
2. Bad roads for turning right towards hanging bridge from nagavarapalya main road
Solution:
1. Provide magic underpass for pedestrians
2. Right turn banned for traffic on nagavarapalya mn road and instead the traffic should be directed to big bazar side and provided a magic underpass u-turn.
Around the Hanging..
there are few things that need to be done here..land to be acquired and road widened..part of land belongs to railways(having old quarters) and part with a college belonging to a church..without any construction..
These can be acquired and the road widened.
and then we need the underpass for pedestrians accessing the railway stn.
The solution is not at all difficult..it just needs commitment!
Mean while http://pgportal.gov.in/ works
It is an Online Grievance Redress mechanism in Goverment. The above reply from the PWD was for a grievnace filed through the above portal. I was sceptical when I got the link from an email, but to my surprise it worked!!! They forward the recieved compaints to the respective departments for actions, the follow up mechanism is doubtful because railways are sitting idle on other 2 comlaints against them. I have proofs from the portal guys showing that they have forwarded it to Ministry of Railways. Any how a good initiative by the goverment.
Applause for Indian Goverment. Ramesh.
KR Puram
Hanging bridge is a planning/engineering disaster!
Some where in CTTP it was mentioned that - the ORR traffic has to be separated on this stretch by constructing a bypass for the existing ORR from Beninghanahally flyover to ORR close to the salem railway line over bridge parallel to the railway line. May be in another decade plus ;)
Ramesh
what about road below the hanging bridge?
This mail from the govt is a good update..atleast something is happening!
What I dont understand is why did the railways put their hands up for widening the bridge and asked the NH guys to do it and also why this late? the latest mail from railways is dated 24-april-2008! What were they all doing all these days!? eating kadalekai?
Benniganahalli bridge is one thing..if this is fixed its good but what will happen is that all the traffic would pile up under the hanging bridge OR rather the approach to the hanging bridge! Whos working on that?
Analyzing that bottleneck..there are many reasons for blockage:
1. Pedestrians from the train station( need a magic pedestrian underpass desperately here)
2. U turn under the hanging bridge. This needs to be stopped and the turn should be taken under the next ORR bridge which is about 100 mts
3. Trucks on ORR..hope this will get reduced with NICE PRR getting completed
Re: Benniganahalli to KR Puram Maze
Good reading. And another interesting point here is that to go towards center of the city from the north side of the ORR, there is no right turn facility. One has to go towards K R Puram and then take a U-turn in the messy traffic :-( Or go through the narrow lanes of Kasthurinagar and NGEF.
Once the airport expressway comes up, I cannot imagine how the traffic coming from airport to Indiranagar/Koramangala can be managed..
KR Puram: Response To Complaint
have we been heard?
Apathy!
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