[balenoed_]

Done, The road above Panathur underpass (ORR) is closed. God bless all those coming from Panathur main road and joining ORR towards Marathahalli. You only have that service road now.



One doubt: How does the metro go over these underpasses. Where would the pillars be built?

[anandhsub]

Originally Posted by balenoed_

Done, The road above Panathur underpass (ORR) is closed. God bless all those coming from Panathur main road and joining ORR towards Marathahalli. You only have that service road now.

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One doubt: How does the metro go over these underpasses. Where would the pillars be built?

This actually might improve the flow of traffic. Currently there is a metro diversion just after this underpass ( right under the skywalk) due to which vehicles taking this road have to quickly merge to the left along with all the vehicles coming from the underpass.

[audioholic]

Originally Posted by balenoed_

One doubt: How does the metro go over these underpasses. Where would the pillars be built?

As far as I can understand from the alignment document I have, the piers will be in the middle of the two underpasses since they are anyway spaced away from each other. Not sure what happens to this service road that originates from the middle of the road.

[Chetan_Rao]

Originally Posted by itwasntme

Hey Chetan, is this info correct or only because it was 2330?...

It isn't time-specific, they're using concrete barriers for lane separators.

A clip from my dashcam, Saturday the 23rd, ~4:30 PM. I'm on the main carriageway, just past Esteem Mall.

You can distinctly notice the lane separators at 0:18 in the clip, that's where you can get off the main carriageway if you want to. At 0:21, you'll notice the lane separator for the service lane ending to your left (one lane over), so from there, anyone who's off the main carriageway can proceed to join ORR in either direction, or take the left-sided loop to get onto city-bound flyover lanes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58qqoSze_F0

[TorqueyTechie]

Originally Posted by drive2eternity

It is about mindset. The poor driver has been lugging his car in 1st and 2nd gear for kilometers and then gets an open stretch and exactly there you put a speed gun. Not evil?

For me no this is not (when seen in isolation). Just because there is an open stretch doesn't mean one can ignore the laws. And I am no saint as well I do cross the speed limits but I don't cry hoarse when caught!

Originally Posted by drive2eternity

To add, see what Ragul posted, they have altered the speed limits exactly for that open stretch (it seems). Not evil?

This seems evil and I agree. A genuine question from my end, I always thought that the speed limit prescribed is from the board specifying the limit and not before it. Isn't is so? If the interceptor is catching people for over speeding before the limit, can't someone mention about the previous board and ask them to highlight the new speed limit earlier to the interceptor point?

[whitewing]

They seem to be putting up speed cameras / displays on the NICE road, fixed on to the overpasses. Couldn't get a clear view from where I was sitting in the bus.

[audioholic]

Originally Posted by whitewing

They seem to be putting up speed cameras / displays on the NICE road, fixed on to the overpasses. Couldn't get a clear view from where I was sitting in the bus.

I noticed this as well both in the link road and the ring road. But I noticed this only after flying across these cameras above the limit. Looks like it isn't working yet since I haven't received any challan even after a month

[drive2eternity]

I noticed it earlier this week on NICE road too. However the cameras were not configured as they were displaying random speeds. It is still work in progress. I also noticed while going from Hosur towards Mysore road, everytime there is an exit, the speed limit reduces from 80kph to 60kph and then right there, the police interceptors are positioned with speed gun to catch unsuspecting souls.
So if you drive at 70 in a 60 zone you get caught, but if you drive at 100 in a 80 zone, there is no checking. How nice!

[GeeTee TSI]

Originally Posted by mvadg

Did you know there is a 30 kmph speed limit near the emergency layby on the BETL flyover?

On the other extreme, the Peenya flyover has an 80kmph limit which I think is very ambitious nigh, dangerous!
It has just two lanes and invariably there are slow moving 2 wheelers and wheezy LCVs. To be able to maintain 80 one would need to switch lanes like Jason Statham.

Dense traffic at high speeds and without sufficient gap maintained is just asking for trouble the moment one vehicle suddenly slows down (or worse, stops). Off late, I have been well below the limit on the left lane on this flyover

[ninjatalli]

So I finally got exposed to the dreaded jams of Bangalore traffic Seems like I had been on the periphery of traffic jams over the last 4-5 months; with my travel from MG road to Bellandur taking 25mins to 1hr at max; with a mix of going via the Bellandur lake + HAL airport route or the ORR + Koramangla route.

Today I seemed to be doing fine till I reached the choked up jam on Bellandur Lake road - that last stretch of ~3kms to my office (RMZ Ecospace) took nearly 45 mins; primarily due to some water logging on the backside lane behind Novotel (that most cars take to reach the offices that line up on ORR) that caused jams all up the road. Total travel time went up to 1.5 hours (or a bit more).

I must say that I was impressed by the folks stuck on traffic. Yes, there was jostling for space. Yes, bikes, autos & even a few idiots in cars made parallel lanes creating more jams for just getting one/two car lengths ahead. But overall, the amount of honking and unruly driving was much less than what I have seen in Bombay to be honest.

Let's see how the rest of the year pans out for me.

[am1m]

Originally Posted by ninjatalli

So I finally got exposed to the dreaded jams of Bangalore traffic
...
the choked up jam on Bellandur Lake road - that last stretch of ~3kms to my office (RMZ Ecospace) took nearly 45 mins;

Not looking to alarm you, just forewarning. It's not going to get better. I worked and commuted to the adjoining RMZ "Eco" World, along some of the same route for about 2 years. Get used to getting stuck in traffic jams. If you are commuting by car and like audiobooks, that will help. With some companies in that area possibly looking at longer term remote working arrangements, perhaps the traffic might be better. But with the Metro construction going on for the next 6 years at least (don't believe the 2025 deadline, no way it'll finish by then!) I don't see things looking up. If your company offers remote work or some sort of flexible arrangement, utilize that. Maybe some days in office, some working from home.

(I desperately moved companies, even took a pay cut, just to escape the possibility of having to return to that awful commute once the covid remote work arrangements ended! And my life has become much, much better for that!)

[itwasntme]

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/...484126890.html



No offense meant to the blind, but I was sure it was directed to all motorists to curl up anything dangling and pray

Like this:
https://twitter.com/uppinakai/status...us0bkwLbYswDtg

[airbus]

Received on WhatsApp. Apt representation of Bengaluru traffic

[gtonsing]

Went to our office today located in OMR in RMZ Infinity from Hennur side. I was expecting horrific traffic considering the rains and metro construction but except for the section near Ramamurthy Nagar underpass, I went through non-stop (of course idiot taxi, auto drivers zig zagging made travelling faster impossible) - 17 kms covered in 43 mins. Return was slightly different but still the choke point in Ramamurthy Nagar intersection was expected. Smiled all the way through.

[JithinR]

Is the video in this tweet actually from Bengaluru?

https://twitter.com/ejprabhakar1/sta...HvuShm9Qg&s=19

I am already starting to dread the day our company calls us back to office.