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| ![]() I think I will stay back in office today. Not going home I guess looking at the backlog of traffic already. No point in spending hours to go home sleep and return tomorrow. Whoever planned this should be shot ![]() |
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| ![]() I Started from Elite Ford service center at 10:30am today and reached Kadubesnahalli by 12:10. traffic is dead slow. Better not to delve into ORR today |
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BHPian Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Bengaluru
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| ![]() I had the opportunity to travel towards whitefield for a meet last friday. Seeing the comments about traffic situation on ORR in this thread, started a bit early by 7 20 ish but was surprised to see not so much traffic and reach my destination, KTPO around 8 05 AM. Got the real taste of the traffic though in the evening. Left the place at around 4 30 and it took be a good 2 hours to reach BTM layout where I had to drop a colleague. Reaching home took me another 30 mins from there. I pity all of you folks who drive along this route daily. From that day I made up my mind to not curse traffic along my route to EC. ![]() Couple of snaps taken at a railway crossing (dont remember the place). I just reached this junction when the gates were being closed and could see just how mindless people can be. All two wheelers (and mind you almost 90% were educated idiots wearing those IT company tags) just came and blocked the entrances on both sides. It took a good 2-3 mins for me to start moving once the gates opened as I had to allow all these idiot 2 wheelers to clear the mess. I was actually surprised to see a taxi behind me stay put and not honk or try to bully his way out. ![]() ![]() |
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| ![]() In other news, I made it home within usual time by doing some heavy route deviations. Left whitefield at 5 and reached home at 6:40. Office - Graphite India - ABB Junction - Airbus building - Goshala road - Mahadevpura - ISRO Junction - Old Airport road - Yamalur road - Bellandur lake - Outer ring road - Agara - Madiwala Market - Silk board - BTM - JP Nagat - Jaynagara - Banashankari ![]() Quote:
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From ISRO junction on ORR, you reached Bellandur junction of the same ORR via Old Airport Road, Yamalur ![]() I presume this way you escaped the BDA work in progress section on the ORR ? ![]() | |
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Yes. Traffic had backed up beyond Marathahalli bridge so I would have idled in that for an hour easily. I checked the lake road traffic and there was a small queue compared to other days so took the plunge since I knew that after Bellandur the ORR would be free because of the pile up. Worked in my favor! |
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| ![]() It was pretty quick today from ECity to Whitefield for me today. Left office at 5:20 PM and was at home at 6:30 PM. Much faster than any normal day ![]() |
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With Bangalore continuing to retain the second highest number of vehicles in the country with 61 Lakh registered vehicles running on our roads, second to only Delhi with 88 Lakh vehicles(ref), our traffic woes are only going to increase exponentially with no hope. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of vehicles surpasses Delhi given the past rate of increase. We have already started to lose the concept of peak time/off-peak time in most places. There is simply no space for the 61 lakh vehicles plying on our roads with 5 lakh new vehicles adding every year. High time the Government provides or facilitates with private operator's help, an efficient public transportation system with point-to-point and last mile connectivity and makes it compulsory to use it. We can only dream of quick and efficient mass public transportation at the moment. Hopefully in another 20 years with Metro giving proper coverage. I'm sure that if the Bus services are privatised, the private operators will be a lot more efficient to capitalize on the demand and will provide hassle free point to point transport and at rapid frequency. An App-Based Bus service like Zip-Go (which was suspended as permit was not granted) is the need of the hour. The solution to address the traffic woes can be implemented in quick time, its only the Will that is lacking. Last edited by for_cars1 : 21st June 2016 at 00:27. | ||||||
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