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The dual carriageway flyover on ORR was designed by BDA. Another blooper from BDA is they forgot to mark bus bays. So all the buses stop on the main road, holding the traffic behind. |
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However, the reason bus bays are not marked is since they were supposed to be below the flyover as per initial plan. Bus lane was supposed to be the rightmost lane. Somewhat similar to the current bus stop below Agara flyover. | |
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BHPian Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Bangalore
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Bengaluru
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| ![]() A quick info for members! This may be known to most but FWIW if someone benefits from it... I was flagged down by Bengaluru traffic police on my usual route, near to CMR college Brookfield while driving my car. Now, I generally stick to traffic rules n never drive without all current documents, so I confidently stopped n inquired with them. The constable informed me my number plate is in violation of traffic rules, since my regn number is only 3 digits, and it should've a zero prefixed to make it 4 digits! I tried to reason with him, he was almost ok to let me go but by then the big boss intervened and he took over from there, n my 1/2 n hour ordeal started :-( I reasoned with him I'm not committing a traffic offense, this is a mere technicality and asked for a chance to mend it. Told I wasn't aware of such rule (thought my ignorance is not an excuse when it comes to law), and this is how the car came to me from showroom after RTO formalities, he started countering if this missing digit was in the last or middle of the number could you be excused !? He started taking photos of my number plate n told he'll send this to court. A long argument ensued, in the end I lost patience n told him issue me a challan, I'll pay up, that's better than hearing your illogical comments, no wonder common people don't trust police for law enforcement, you let go grave mistakes but hold on to such petty mistakes as these etc. Only one statement of his made sense, your number plate should have the number as shown in your RC. To my surprise he let me go, didn't press for a fine! Now, I don't know if he's clicked a pic of my number plate and it'll come haunting me online or not !? I promptly patched up/prefixed a zero the next day. Lesson learnt: You drive w/o helmet/ proper documents, blackened glass, overspeed, talk endlessly/watch youtube/SM on mobile phone... doesn't matter. You can be still flagged for some obscure rule like this. |
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BHPian Join Date: Dec 2019 Location: Bengaluru
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I think some people skip putting the digit 0 if it's at the end which might make it difficult for police to note down said number in case of a traffic violation. I have had to explain this to my colleagues too. Generally, everyone gets it once you do so. Great that you fixed it immediately. | |
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I think the yesterday’s accident was due to either driver being drowsy or the heavy mist in the morning and driver didnt see the flyover partition ( reflector might not have been visible) and wasnt able to react on time. | |
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About not flagging down folks w/o helmet and all, I won't agree that it's not being done. Yeah the violations are so High that they end up missing quite a few but even in the arterial roads(Begur road for example) I see them catching folks for 2 wheeler violations every single day. | |
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| ![]() Bengaluru Traffic Police (BTP) is facing a personnel crunch. The city only has 4,638 traffic police personnel for a vehicle population of over 80 lakhs. I guessed it wrong, thinking there are excess personnel. In some of the Signals, I can see 3-5 personnel (once, the count was 7), just to catch and check random vehicles. This personnel are in addition to the one managing the signal. Sometimes, constables risk their lives, by jumping in front of oncoming vehicles. Now that we've Camera's at almost all the major signals, traffic violations can be monitored and challans sent to their addresses. Even, If we take an average of 3 personnel standing at 200 odd signals, the total comes to 600. These personnel can be better utilized in manning the traffic in peak hours. Last edited by jaaz : 13th January 2020 at 16:54. |
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What I've sported on mine - I'm not ready to take it as an "offense", non-conforming to legal requirement ofcourse. To make matters clear: I have the LTT paid receipt issued by the SAME RTO on the same date of vehicle registration, that shows just 3 digits of my vehicle number, without the 0 prefixed! | ||
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Guess what? Now I see poles for street lights have been installed on the divider in the stretch between NGEF Junction and BEML Gate Junction. Hope they install street lights even on the other stretch of Suranjan Das Road between BEML Gate Junction and HAL Main Gate Junction. This road is presently unlit and too dark in night time and traffic density has increased multifold in the last decade. I frequent this stretch in night time and high-beam is a BIG menace here. Hope street lights reduces this menace. | ||
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Bangalore
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Last Sunday on Suranjan Das Road saw a bunch of stunt bikers. This was between HAL hospital and the JB Nagar junction. These guys were - wait for it - doing wheelies while intentionally going opposite to traffic flow, trying to stick to the middle of the carriageway. I myself almost hit one of them (could have been the end of him, as a matter of fact). Saw some auto guys trying to get these guys to quit. It was becoming a shouting fest. |
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Hyderabad has been way better on this, lot of cameras installed in road and with constables. You just come to know on fine in SMS.. The so called Silicon valley still has manual enforcement. | |
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If you wish to take stock of the situation, just visit any toll plaza - a tag holder will not be able to make it out of the toll gates any faster than those who want to pay cash. The cash payers consist not only of those who we imagine to be anti-social but also those who we consider bigwigs, and even those we consider worthy of respect. I suspect that the day we are able to fly past the toll plaza without human intervention, we will also be able to catch traffic offenders without policemen. | |
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| ![]() Now who can come up with an algorithm to solve this would be the next Nobel prize winner. |
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