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| ![]() TRAFFIC ALERT!!! Major traffic after ISRO, ORR. The steel girder before railway underpass was knocked down by a container with the container load chopped off and fell, occupying 2 lanes. One lane is open with one end of girder still in place. DIVERT! |
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| ![]() Looks to be cleared now. Just took the isro u turn and no jams. Vehicles seemed to be moving as usual as far as I could see towards total/emc side. |
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BHPian Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() bus breakdown on BETL past the lay bye on the left lane towards ECity. keep to the right. |
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![]() I don't ever remember seeing the railway track beyond the BEML factory (nowhere towards the vegetable market/HAL so this was another reason why I never thought it was possible that such a train service existed). Possibly they removed the tracks from that section sometime in the late 70's or 80's ? | |
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I do not recollect the year when the line was removed, but I recollect that it was in place around 1985-89, though trains had stopped around 1983-84. Last edited by adnaps : 1st December 2015 at 10:04. Reason: Correction | |
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![]() Now that I mentioned the museum. The museum also has another interesting photograph. Of sea-planes landing in the Bellandur Lake!!! Yes that stinky lake, full off chemical froth which many Bangaloreans see (and cross) every day. HAL was a repair depot of these sea planes, and they found Bellandur lake to be large and deep enough to land and take off from there. Quote:
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The traffic commissioner had tweeted about this. Icing on the cake was yesterday while returning home. I saw a 407 broken down right at the U-turn and as usual the impatient ones(cabbies) ended up blocking the extreme left lanes leading to a huge pile up of vehicles. Vehicles going straight also couldnt move coz of these retards blocking the extreme left lane. | |
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This U-turn is a good option then since the right turn further ahead at Battarahalli will take one through a non-existent road that ends up at Ayyappa Nagar. | |
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![]() Its more used as a tourist attraction and less of a utility moving people quickly to the place they wish to go. | |
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BHPian ![]() | ![]() On 23rd September, I had posted this on BTP FB Page. Quote:
This is what I proposed - Glad to see that BTP has implemented it partially. The road outside KR Puram market is actually 6 lane dual carriageway. Despite no parking boards, one and a half lane on either side is encroached / occupied by parked vehicles. Although a skywalk is provided, people choose not to use it. If the rest of my suggestions are also implemented, it would go a long way in easing the traffic flow in that stretch. It used to take 20 minutes to cross that junction before. Now with the right turn blocked off, it takes less than 5 minutes. Last edited by PatchyBoy : 1st December 2015 at 11:50. | |
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![]() On a serious note, if we do not build the Metro all over Bangalore, the city would choke to death. It is literally running out of space. I cannot imagine living here in the future. I seriously do not want my kids to grow up here. | |
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| ![]() It seems many of Bangalore's traffic hotspots have Twitter accounts: https://twitter.com/Mekhri_Circle https://twitter.com/HebbalFlyover https://twitter.com/KadugodiFlyover https://twitter.com/SonyWorldJn https://twitter.com/JayadevaFlyover https://twitter.com/Kundalahalli https://twitter.com/tin_factory https://twitter.com/GraphiteSignal https://twitter.com/silk_board The humour content varies; so far my favourite is Silk Board - topical and funny. Sample tweets: "Traffic Update : Slow-moving traffic at Madivala due to bus breakdown at Secunderabad junction" "FedEx delivery van drivers decide to re-brand themselves FedUp" "Infosys, TCS & Wipro to confirm tickets for it onsite bound only after clearing mekhri circle" |
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