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![]() The pond ![]() The patch of road opposite the prathama motors has been a case of clear neglect for the past 3 months. The risk is quite high during the night due to poor lighting of roads & high beam vehicles coming down the flyover on the other side. So many lives are lost in our country due to the negligence of the govt which is akin to deaths seen in war ravaged countries. I wish our govt provides a foot over bridge for employees working in ecospace to cross the road, wishful thinking. | |
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BHPian ![]() | ![]() Something drastically wrong with Bangalore, seems some sinister has happened as far as roads are concerned and the CM has gone in record telling he has no plans to develop Bangalore and Bangalore would not grow like 2001 days. Everyday I feel awful driving on these roads and we in Bangalore pay maximum road tax, fuel tax and what not. I will not be surprised if we need one more election to fix these roads. |
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![]() Jokes apart.. Quality of the road is pathetic. Hardly any roads left in Bangalore. Forget "GOOD" roads. They should sell war tankers without gun. They are best suited for our road. CM's visit to check and repair roads is a joke! Probably he wanted to check where his 1₹ rice is getting wasted. We need to file FIR against road authorities on the basis of murder, vehicle damage, hazardous to health. OT: Other day we were cracking joke between friends.. As politicians say, smaller states are easy to manage. Yes, they are right. They are unable to manage beyond Sadashivnagar, Vidhana Soudha. They should make these as separate states. | |
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The party thinks, what is we could not rob India, lets eat up the money from Karnataka, specifically B'lore !!! | |||||
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() Took me 30 mins this morning to cover 200 m of a U-Turn opposite RMZ Infinity on Old Madras Road. The reason was a faulty traffic signal replaced by 2 traffic cops. These traffic cops have some strange psychology of letting the traffic move from one side for 10-15 mins at a go and hold the other side. Wherever there are traffic cops, there is a jam. Why are Bangalore traffic cops not trained before being put on job? ![]() |
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One more to add to your rants, the same public blocks the roads with boulders and "enbedded concrete" blocks to prevent "public" from using the roads. Eg in BTM layout almost all roads along side the lake. | ||
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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: May 2010 Location: TN-14
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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Adelaide
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Even if you familiarise with all the potholes on your regular route, you are still going to be surprised by some new potholes that did not exist the previous day. Just a couple of weeks ago, I could leave home by 7.30 AM and take 45 minutes to travel 23 KMs to office. But now the same distance takes more than one hour. The traffic situation is the same. The additional 15 minutes are because of potholes. That's 25% extra time and diesel wasted by one person per day! Forget the time, which is my personal thing. Imagine how much environmental impact it has when every vehicle in the city burns 25% more fuel! | |
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BHPian Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Bangalore
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BHPian ![]() | ![]() While we are talking about the quality of Bangalore roads, I am observing the road construction being done on 27th Main, HSR layout. Around two kms are being relaid by heavy machinery. Tons of metal stones being used and the height is increased by a feet or more. The big stones in the bottom layer, then a layer of loose mortar mixed with medium stones and then a final layer of small stones mixed in tar. The top layer with bitumen is barely an inch, and is as akin to painting a wall. All laid out nice and clean like a runway. But wait for this 'paint' layer to fade, and this road will be back to stone age. Numerous water/drainage leakages at many places are buried nicely. And a large part of the work was done on rain soaked road. |
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BHPian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Bangalore
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() Noticed something very strange this morning. As always, there was a huge traffic jam at Hoodi-KR Puram railway gate during peak hours. There is a traffic cop posted here, who most of the times is enjoying his cup of tea with the railway gateman. However, this morning he was standing in middle of the road and clicking photos of the oncoming cars. He tried clicking a picture of my car as well by blocking the way which I do not think he could when I swiveled my car in anger. Are the pictures clicked for imposing some fine? Is there a way for me to clarify if I get an unjustified fine? |
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BHPian ![]() Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() Speaking of potholes, I went on a drive to Kolar via Old MAdreas Road on Sunday. Returned via the Whitefield diversion through Kadugodi. Few KMs before I reached Sai Baba ashram, I was in for a nasty surprise! I have never seen such big & bad potholes in any Bangalore road. Even the BMTC bus was groaning while crossing this stretch. This road has a divider, so there is no way you can escape the potholes by going to the other side. Is any any T-BHPian who has to travel through that road regularly? Its not an enviable task :( I used this road a couple of times in 2010 to go to BIA. It used to be completely traffic free, covered in greens and in a much better shape earlier. Last edited by ankan.m.blr : 11th September 2013 at 19:18. |
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BHPian Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() And to think of all the unaccounted annual ward development money running into crores which Mla's, Mp's, Corporators, councillors etc gobble down their inhuman bodies. Even if 25% of allocated funds are used there would be fresh tarmac on every major road. Alas! |
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