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THE BUS STOP AT BEGINNING/END OF THE FLYOVER | |
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![]() That's how we have now ended with useless middle service lanes which are designed like exits to fast lane and lead to several accidents. Several drivers unaware that the fast lane is going towards the exit, realize it at the last moment and change lanes suddenly causing collisions (I have been a victim of one such collision and also caused it once). TLDR; those middle service lanes were meant to be bus lanes but now they are not. | |
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| ![]() ^^^ ORR is substandard even by Indian highway standards, and quite narrow for a city with poor public transport and high numbers of private and commercial vehicles. Worse, Bengaluru's roads make up a smaller percentage of the overall area of the city than in the case of other cities. This means there will be jams at entry and exit points. Bus lane seems to be another idea tacked on later by some other bunch of bureaucrats, compounding the problems of undercapacity and poor design. ![]() |
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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() | ![]() Just came back from KIAL. Be very mindful of the almost daily changes being made to traffic flows adjacent to the terminal building area as well as the half-cloverleaf flyover & access roads. There is inconsistent signage, sudden narrowing and widening of roads, over-familiar cabbies driving too fast, equally unfamiliar drivers trying to figure out things, manual signalling by traffic staff and construction vehicles moving around on the road. A lethal cocktail indeed! |
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https://bengaluru.citizenmatters.in/...-of-life-68445 "Church Street pedestrianisation reduced air pollution, improved quality of life: IISc study" "Church Street was closed to vehicular traffic on an experimental basis every Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to midnight for four months, from November 7th, 2020 till February 28th, 2021. The study was done during this period. Church Street is currently open to vehicular traffic." "Clear improvement in air quality" "Further, more than 50% of restaurant owners and gift shop owners on Church Street agreed that pedestrianisation led to an increase in customer footfall, revenue, and had an overall positive effect on business." "Modes of transport – Visitors: Private vehicles: overall 7% decrease Public transport: 7% increase Shop owners: Private vehicles: overall 15% decrease Public transport: 11% increase Metro: 162% increase in metro ridership" | |
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| ![]() Old airport road is getting some makeover. Half of the footpath is marked as cycle lane. If authorities can make cycling safer, more people will be encouraged to take cycle. |
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Incidentally, we were in Church street I think in the last week of November on a sunday and we were able to drive all across the street. Not sure if this pedestrianisation was done as an experiment for a short time? (Sorry not read the article :lazy: | |
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Data from government and related agencies should always be suspect, so should data collected with some agenda. There were probably other factors that influenced the metrics presented. (College taught me the rewards of cooking data versus presenting dismal results ![]() | |
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: May 2010 Location: Bangalore
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Cubbon Park on Sundays when it's shut to traffic is heaven. Again from personal experience, Gangtok and Darjeeling town centers being shut to traffic make for excellent experiences too. We can nit-pick on data, but real-world experiences do indicate that reducing the dependence on personal transport and planning for public transport+pedestrianization, especially for the city center makes for a better quality of life. | |
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| ![]() For a change a chance to rant on something other than the ORR. Had to go to Infantry Road for some official work this weekend. Made the big mistake of taking the usual detour via St Johns Road From Old Madras Road and not just continuing further on MG road like Maps was suggesting me to. To my shock I found 50% of all the roads around Ulsoor to Shivaji Nagar are currently closed due to some "smart city" work. Took me an hour to go from Bhaskaran road to Commercial street which earlier used to take <10 mins. If the heart of the city has such pitiable roads I guess should just learn to live with what we get in the outskirts. |
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