BIAL to open on May 23 night

People seem to be thinking that the ride to the new airport will be smooth once they reach the hebbal flyover, but that is not quite the case. There couple of major bottlenecks even after the hebbal flyover.

1) Kodigehalli Gate Junction: This is a major bottle neck. Even during non-peak hours it can take a couple of minutes to cross this junction. Due to the flow of traffic from all four directions the wait time are high. Once the BIAL opens and the traffic inflow increases peak time wait can go up significantly. The problem is getting compounded because of the intermediate signals on bellary road getting transformed to signal free junctions, after the installation of the magic boxes, the trafficflow has become more and frequent. The other signals used to act as buffers earlier.

2) Yelahanka turn: This is another point where wait times will be high. Unless a solution is thought of soon. 

The Road Beyond Hebbal belongs to National Highways. I have been told that they have now started the tendering process for a flyover at the Kodigehalli Gate Junction. -- source from one of the BBMP Engineers.

I am not aware of the situation at Yelahanka Turn (Tile factory junction)
If any one is tracking the progress on this projects it will be worth while discussing what surprises are in store for us.

-- Praveen Sundaram AkA PhotoYogi

I drobe to BIAL 3-4 days back. And After hebbal there are atleast 3-4 Signals (Sahakara Nagar, Jakkur/YEL bypass and when the NH4 meets the yel bypass after jakkur too. So its quite far from a non stop drive. Thankfully it is ten lane with service roads, and this might be an advantage if they plan to construct thier flyover. We've put ourselves in a fix, we have only ONE road to the airport. Creating another one (expressway) is off the charts for now. And now we have no option but to look at the road ahead (excuse the pun) and build on it! I remember Mr.Baligar's excuse at TOI Unlock Bangalore - he said that the reason why they were having problem coping with traffic was because no one predicted the jump from 5 to 11 million passengers! Excuse me, but didnt you know there was 50 million pax airport being buit there? Are you going to build the roads in phases of 10 million?

There are grand plans of a elevated highway road that will be taken up by NHAI from Hebbal to Yelahanka! So it still should be a smooth ride..and we will not need a seperate expressway..

I still dont know the need for this road..its a waste..all thats needed is efficient management of the exisitng roads and providing proper exit and entry ramps to the major junctions and fence the entire stretch so that cattle and dogs dont fall vicitms of fast vehicles or even the otherway around!

We always see costly solutions to simple problems!!

 

Yes, Kannada is our language and we must respect it and be proud of it. But lets not go over board.

1. All the signboards in the airport must have Kannada on them since the airport is in Karnataka and most of the customers will be Kannadigas.

This is a statuary requirement, and it has been implemented.

2.All staff must know Kannada. announcements in the flights must be made in Kannada.

Please note most of the staff you see at the airport are either working with the concessionaires, airlines or duty/retails/beverage companies. You cannot expect all of them to speak Kannanda! The employees are like the employees of a IT company or any other private entitiy - people have the right to speak the language they want, and they also have the right to learn the languages they want! It's not fair to force them to speak a language.

Lastly, airport announcements are a Nuisance! I really enjoyed London Luton Airport -it was a "silen" airport, which means no announcements only display screens that kept egtting updated. It was very good! And very peacful and people paid attention!

Also I dont know any passengers who seem to have a problem understanding English during the announcements. So why add more when not required. At the same time, there are ground staff who are willing to help out with those who dont understand English - every airline, even BA and AF have them!

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