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It saddened me to read the morning news that Defence Land on Old Airport Rd. is going to be used up for road widening. Thinking of losing all the wonderful trees on this stretch makes me sad. Some of them are close to 50 years old. | |
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Bangalore
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I think while this one: "Permission for inner ring road from Challaghatta to Koramangala" will help in de-congesting the existing IRR, it will be too close to the already massacred Bellandur lake that it might run into serious trouble with environment groups and courts. Anyway the Challaghatta route will be really beneficial only if they widen Wind Tunnel Road and connect it properly to ORR (at multiple locations). | |
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There isnt any alternative to airport road currently on either side for kilometres. They should have more roads while there is still large tracts of land available next to airport. Last edited by srishiva : 8th July 2016 at 10:50. | |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() ![]() | ![]() Some how I am not convinced about the Challagatta - Koramanagala ring road will help ease congestion. The biggest problem today is ORR traffic. Unless they find a way to get the load off the ORR (if possible), any improvements over and around Indiranagar/Koramangala wont help much. Metro rail over ORR in principle looks like a good option, but I shudder to think, what would happen when they actually start working on it. |
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| ![]() Should have posted this earlier for the benefit of FM's. This jam was on 7/7. How many folks were stuck in a traffic jam on Old Madras Road, going towards Tin Factory, at around 1130AM? As I was returning from a short vacation, I hit the road late to work. Around 1130am, I left Cox Town and was headed to ITPL. Google maps suggested to go via CV Raman Nagar, HAL, etc. I ignored this and decided to stick to OMR and take the highway route via Kadugodi to approach ITPL. Right from Big Bazaar (The store has relocated to Banaswadi) signal till the landing of the ring road bridge at tin factory, it was bumper to bumper. This section, which maybe just under kilometre, took over half an hour to cover. Traffic wasn't moving. On reaching the point of the ring road flyover landing, I get to see what was causing the jam. A couple of traffic police were regulating flow of traffic from each side. They stop traffic from OMR and let Rammamurthy/Ring Road traffic flow and vice versa. I have seen a similar regulation take place for traffic coming in to the city. Traffic police regulate traffic, turn by turn, from each side (at HP Gas station), ITPL and the traffic coming down the KR Puram bridge. This jam was so bad that by the time I cleared it, it must have piled up till Swami Vivekanada Road metro station or beyond. I reached work at 105pm. One and a half hours to cover 14km. Last edited by sandeepmohan : 8th July 2016 at 13:34. |
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For example, if they think, IRR-2 will help, then at least let them think through with respect to the bigger picture and see where to act. My opinion today, as I have mentioned earlier: - To de-congest the ORR traffic; they first need to address source of traffic into ORR. - Whitfield being a big one, they need to reduce the inflow and have an alternative exit policy for whitefield traffic (apart from KR Puram and Marathahalli). - For that, my vote goes to development of a faster corridor along the Varthur road and of course effective use of Metro till whitefield to reduce inflow. - The other thing they need to solve is infrastructure problem for the ORR-Sarjapur road bottle neck. Again they should not look at it as short term. - Imagine they create something immediate, and few years later, all has to be undone, for a Metro! ![]() - Again no idea what is being planned for KR Puram. I hope I get to see a free flowing ORR in my lifetime! I guess I am dreaming. Last edited by ampere : 8th July 2016 at 16:07. Reason: Typo | |
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| ![]() ![]() Emergency-ready: Hoysala gets new set of wheels I saw couple of those today and those were LDI variant. I am just curious if these vehicles are powerful enough to chase vehicles in case the need arise. Ertiga diesel variants have a rated power of 89 BHP, whereas there are lot of vehicles on Bengaluru roads with rated power of 100 BHP or above ![]() |
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![]() Somehow after driving in Bangalore, driving in Europe is very difficult - Because I feel so sleepy seeing the orderly traffic and smooth cruise. Only one observation was that in Spain, two wheeler riders have a little Indian trait in them. They get in between cars and make it to the front of the signal, sometimes slightly into the opposite direction as well. | |
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A bit critical about the whole scheme. Especially on the vehicles chosen for the patrol duties. Mahindra vehicles were the earlier champs when it comes to police vehicles ![]() Last edited by sachinpk : 9th July 2016 at 13:44. Reason: TV9 video added in. | |||||
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() Massive jam on city-bound carriageway of Old Airport Road. I was going the other way, but saw the jam extending all the way from HAL signal till Yemalur signal. It possibly extends even beyond towards Domlur. Avoid if possible. |
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| ![]() Got a chance to take some birds eye view pictures of the new massive tech park on Sarjapur Road (Near Carmelaram/Decathlon). It is almost complete and I guess just pending internal fitments and/or waiting for the companies to start occupying. As per online sources, apparently the tech park is set on a 18 acre plot with 2.1 million Sq feet of office space. Clearly another Ecospace/ORR mess in the making. Actually it is going to be worse. ORR has the advantage of being a 3+3 lane road with proper service roads. This new tech park opens out on to Sarjapur Road which is technically 2+2, but the huge number of commercial establishments and apartments make it narrower. In addition Sarjapur Road is already notorious for long traffic jams. Things are going to get much worse on Sarjapur Road and that in turn will impact the roads connecting Sarjapur Road to Kadubeesanahalli and the Roads to Varthur via Gunjur. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A potential saving grace is the fact that this is right next to Carmelaram Railway station, seen below on the left side. If more focus is given to commuter rail, employees here will have a few options to get into the city and other areas of Bangalore. Unlike the ORR-Whitefield-EC belt, VMTC Volvo bus connectivity on Sarjapur Road is currently poor. ![]() Completely unrelated: In case you are wondering what the yard with a large number of cars neatly parked is- It is a Tata Motors yard (I think Concorde Motors). Looks half flooded even with the minimal rains we have had. Would be advisable for anyone buying a Tata car to visit the yard and check the vehicle. |
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BHPian Join Date: May 2008 Location: Bangalore
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Getting in and out of this place is going to be a mess. The entrance is actually below the railway flyover at carmelaram station. If you are coming from kasavanahalli side, you have to go below the flyover on the right side and then take a right below the flyover into the complex ( I am not sure if there is gap in the flyover for that). If you are coming from the sarjapur/varthur side, there is no direct access as there you cannot cross the railway tracks at ground level. One has to over the flyover cross the carmelaram junction , take a u turn and then go to the right of the flyover. Imagine the chaos with everyone trying to take a u turn. I am sure that some adventurous drivers will try to take a u-turn into the road below the flyover right from the end of the flyover holding up all traffic. The road below the flyover is very narrow and in a very bad shape. All this is going to result in some major chaos at that junction. Already the carmelaram station road is getting crowded as there are apartments being built in every nook and corner. The road itself is in a horrible shape. This situation could easily have been avoided with some proper planning. It is not that the planners did not know of these situations as there is an example in every corner of bangalore. But then who cares. Everyone wants to make their quick buck. City be damned!! | |
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