On one hand, we have the B-TRAC initiative that the Bengaluru Traffic police claim will improve traffic conditions, lights and signage. On the other, we have traffic signals that don't work or work erratically and have gone unfixed for months. Take the HSR BDA complex junction. When you are travelling from Agara to Silk Board you are forced to cross this junction under a "Red". For more than a month, this particular signal has not shown a "green". All the other directions work except. Imagine the confusion it creates. You are never sure whether it is your turn to move or not. Of course, with our lack of road-politeness, the other directions take advantage of our confusion and jump their reds. A month and a half ago, it was the Iblur junction signal that didn't work. What it does take for the traffic policemen to report this malfunction and get it fixed? They are standing right there in the junction. How should I take this forward? Who can we report this to? All ideas welcome
Even though they are such high-traffic roads, no maintenance ever seems to be carried out on the traffic signals.
Traffic Lights don't work
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not quite funny!
Very true Bijesh (have I got your name right?). Not just this junction, there are very many of them where the lights are functioning erratically.
Both at the Ejipura junction as well as at the Maharajah junction (in Koramangala), the lights turn to red in between two periods of green for the same direction (one for headinbg in all directions, the other for heading in only certain directions). This is leading to a lot of confusion, and forms a serious hazard. And, though obvious, no efforts seem to have been put in to rectify these from long.
In such a scenario, the traffic police going about fining people, and largely for technical offences, is no longer exactly funny. Check: http://bangalore.praja.in/blog/murali772/2008/11/08/i-got-challanned#comment-9919
Muralidhar Rao
TRAFFIC LIGHTS NOT WORKING
thanks Sudhir
We will create a separate page here with phone number and websites for lodging complaints like these. Members of this website should be encouraged to use your helplines.
Hi Does anyone know how to
To know more about B-TRAC
Correction to the link
-Srivatsava V
http://srivatsava-vajapeyam.blogspot.com
-Srivatsava V