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Srinath Heragu and myself whole heartedly support Benniganahalli junction pedestrian crossing initiative, taken up by CKannan.
- Date October 2, 2008
- Time 10:00 Hrs
- Place "Asha Kiran", 1669, 9th main, HAL III stage, Bangalore 560075.
- Contact No- 080-4126-9814; 98440-01591.
- Land mark-1 Indiranagar BSNL Telephone exchange on 80 ft road,
- Land Mark-2 Friends Bakery, on 80 ft road, 9th main Junction corner.
The agenda is to plan more on 'Safe pedestrian' project with sharp focus on Benniganahalli area, as suggested by admin. The same could be carried forward to similar projects later on. Once the meeting date time and venue are fixed we will create the event as suggested, so that many could join.
The staggered crossing concept is good to take forward. To solve similar crossing problems we should consider the three options in the correct order, on "cost to benefit" basis.
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Meeting on 2nd Oct
unable to join due to short notice
But do keep us posted on how this meeting went. All the best!
'Safe Passage' - Meeting on Oct 2 propsed Agenda
Minutes of meeting
Meeting Notes
The meeting started at 10 AM as scheduled at my place. Chandrasekar K and Srinath Heragu arrived in time without any problem of locating the place.
Signature Campaign
Mr. Chandrasekar explained his signature campaign in detail. It looks like that he can get signatures in numbers well exceeding the 2 Lack mark.
He displayed a well drafted Performa designed by him for the student community. He has different sets of forms for the people staying in Apartments, independent houses etc, in different localities of KR Puram area. The people targeted are above 8 years of age, in various categories of Students, house wives, working people and senior citizens. He explained the strategy of getting these Performa about 20,000 or more printed, distributed and signatures obtained by a volunteer’s scheme. The Performa containing sponsors ads will be printed by the sponsors at their cost.
We were impressed to a great extent by the strategy adopted and the through execution planning by Mr. Chandrasekar. He has already identified about 20 community leaders. These leaders are working to identify their 10x10x10 leaders in turn. Each of those in the bottom of the rung will be given 10 forms. Thus a well thought out network can get the 2, 00,000 proforma with details filled up and signed. Mr. Chandrasekar has a workable dead line of Nov 25, 2008 by which time he would be ready with the signatures mobilized. His plan is to organize a meeting in one conference hall rented for the purpose in his area.
We next started our inspection of the project area. All three of us went on the old madras road by car and stopped at the under bridge at Old Madras Road Nagavar Palya road junction. (See map)
Under pass #1
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There should be a bus bay at this junction. We should take immediate steps to see that the bus drivers are instructed by the concerned authorities for adherence, to bus bays. Follow "BEST" practices!
Under Pass #2
This is at the HP Petrol pump. Again a underpass only is suitable. The length of the underpass is more here as it has to span 5 lane traffic. A big Refuge bay requires to be designed at the center, with a connection to the Under pass. This refuge should have safety railings. A big bus bay area has to be marked alogside the refuge. Again a campaign to train all drivers of busses both local and outstation busses (Govt+Private) is to be undertaken, for this location. The busses should que here one behind other in an orderly straight line. Follow BEST practices!
Zebra Cross #1
This is at KR Puram Railway Station
Here it is possible to have Zebra crossing with Refuge under the bridge above at the center. It is possible to have Traffic signal at both the segments. This is a very good example of an ideal Zebra crossing, with a central refuge.
Under pass #3
This is at ITI Sports center.
After completing the KR Puram Trip we returned to my place. The action plan was discussed further. We requested Mr. Chandrasekhar to get a photo session done up of the 4 locations, along with getting his presentation slides done up.
Mr. Chandrasekars Minutes in the post above Capures all the points needed precisely
Impressive commitment!
Impressive commitment , folks! Keep it up! Looking forward to seeing the presentation. BTW, can I presume C Kannan and Chandrasekhar are the same person?
Muralidhar Rao
CKannan is Chandrasekar
Murali sir. yes they are same.
Safe Passage - Pedestrian Underpasses
Quick fix pedestrian crossing
Magic Box for Pedestrian Crossings
This is a simple and ancient Technology applied to create a horizontal passage for under pass road application. I call it a simple well known technology of ancient times because any civil engineer knows about the circular reinforced concrete rings used for the construction of water wells. The circular reinforced rings are made on road sides if you look for it, you will get the place.
Now the same method applied to our under pass application requires rectangular reinforced concrete blocks (rings). These are pre-cast in vendor place to any bodies order and kept ready. You can give the orders for these at the same place where you get the round rings. The construction of under pass requires (1) digging up of road, (2) place the pre-cast block, (3) Close on top. Repeat the operation block by block till whole Road width is covered. This can be completed in one day (24 hrs) as done in Hebbal Police Station area, as reported by TOI. The link is given here:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Subway_magic_created_in_24_hrs_/articleshow/3538541.cms
One has to take these Press Reports with a pinch of salt, because they are written with the sole purpose of selling their paper. Only thing to remember is that there can be unknown problems like hidden water, sanitary, Telephone, High tension wire lines etc. One has to check with all departments concerned before hand. If there are no such problems one is lucky.
This technology as you can see is viable 100% for our application Chandrasekhar.
A movement for vehicles or people
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A very good solution indeed, Thanks Doc.
Acknowledgement
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underasses / subways
Dr.ASJ has a very valid point
Drive safe. It is not just the car maker which can recall its product.
Lets not confuse freeways with city roads
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On confusing freeway to city roads
Hi Doc,
It took me several reads of your post on confusing city road with freeways to understand what you were articulating.
“A well planned city will never have a highway going through its belly. Usually there will be slip roads that take one out of the city to connect to the expressway.”
For example if Bangalore was to be on the NH4 straight line between let us say Mumbai and Chennai, how can we (well) plan Bangalore city? That was my problem.
We would on the other hand visualize the NH4 was no different than a normal city road with abnormal traffic! Doc there is or was no confusion between free way and city roads at any time. The way is free when going in wilderness and it is a city road when it happens to be going through a city. Providing by passes would be a separate project perhaps. The ring roads are perhaps the solutions for such issues in a limited sense.
Our Plan in this thread is in fact that of a pilot project, to be duplicated by other groups in Bangalore Praja later, if successful. Yes our plan is to get correct infrastucture in entire Bangalore ie BBMP area.
Thanks a lot for the really thought provoking post.
On pedestrian refuges
Freeways are Freeways and City Roads are City Roads
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Safe Passage - Excellent Discussions
Hi psaram42, asj & others,
This is a terrific debate - & thanks for exploring all of several possibilities.
The priorities in India need to change completely, particularly in urban areas such as the larger cities. We build roads & other related infrastructure primarily to cater to quicker movement for cars & other road traffic, ignoring & in fact endangering pedestrians & bicylists. In the west & in almost all other parts of asia, all road development accords equal, if not higher priority for movement of pedestrians & bicylists, right from the planning /blueprint & building stages itself.
As I see it, unless the prevalent mindset undergoes a complete turnaround, we will be saddled with the same problems for pedestrians & efforts made thus far have been, sort of "reactionary", after the error had been realized ! Providing solutions are not easy in most cases now, as possible & available means had already been squandered with the construction of the underpass or flyover with no provisions in place for the various types of users.
I am sure we all agree with this - & need to push real hard & strong to plan for this right from inception for all future developments, as also to repair the costly errors of the past, however cumbersome or expensive they might be.