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Gundelpet-Muthanga ghat section is also in good shape. Watch out for some steep turns and speed breakers in this route. | |
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: EU - Nordic
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1. Abrupt changes from 4-lanes to two and back. People speed up in the 4-lane stretches only to panic-brake when the road narrows. 2. Insufficient sign boards to indicate the change from 4-lane to 2 and back. Sometimes people miss 2-lane to 4-lane change and end up in the wrong lane. Worse still, they continue on the wrong lane running opposite the traffic until the next change from 4-lane to 2. 3. No street lights, everybody is on high-beam and rarely switch to low-beam. 4. People cross the road anywhere and everywhere. Combined with point 3 above, it means you have to be doubly alert (and lucky) to avoid accidents. | |
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Roads to Nowhere?? I do not see any silver lining in the horizon. Maybe, we need a new thread to discuss this. -- Wind | |
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========== Last edited by ramkya1 : 1st May 2010 at 13:14. | |
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Highways should be exactly that, highways. I do not want to jostle with mopeds, autorickshaws and state transport super fast buses in a two lane road called highway. Unfortunately not an iota of change is seen in the horizon. | |
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A very sad 'state' of affairs indeed!! For my Kerala trip in Septmber (I know we are only in May ![]() ![]() |
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Unless of course, you are keen on the Valparai route. ![]() | |
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But, your Valparai route will eat up lots of time. If you are planning a single day trip from Bangalore to Chavara - that may be difficult. Plan well to include time for all your sightseeing stops enroute. | |
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BHPian | ![]() I would be traveling to Padalam over this weekend. This time i am planning to take Bangalore - Salem - Namakkal - Dindigul - Periyakulam - Theni - Cumbum - Kumily - Mundakkayam - Erumely - Plachery - Ranni - Pathanamthitta - pandalam (Thanks to joecherian ). Planning to start around 5am from Bangalore. Any recent updates on the roads after Theni, i have read some older posts saying roads are bit bad after Kumily. |
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I have done this Valparai route last month. Will post photos soon in the travelogue section. |
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| ![]() any good hotels on mysore - hd kote - bavali - tholpatty - thirunelly route? |
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| ![]() Generally My Driver (since i dont know the roads well) takes the State Highways rather than the 4 laned(not yet) roads. We can do an average of 70 on these roads without any hassles and are is pretty good condition(at least some of them) |
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