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| ![]() I had given lift to a gentleman working inside Ecospace last week. He was telling me that many occasions, it takes around half an hour just to come out of campus into ORR itself. |
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| ![]() Talking of traffic jams and road blocks, I couldn't help sharing this video claiming to be captured on NICE road, Bengaluru and uploaded on YouTube three days ago. Please have a look and, if it indeed is NICE road, drive around carefully the next time you are passing through the area. PS: Look at what the morons on the bike do towards the end of the video. Makes me wonder whether I should have posted this on the Bad drivers thread instead ![]() |
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Last edited by aah78 : 5th May 2017 at 23:20. Reason: Removed in-line video in quote, spell-check. | |
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1. Those are lions, not leopards 2. The place isn't NICE Road, but Gir forest | |
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Lions and Gir forests explain the nonchalant attitude of the bike borne youths. The animals and people must have got used to crossing each other's path on a regular basis ![]() | ||
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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() | ![]() Yesterday evening, A colleague and I left office at 5:45pm. From Hosur side, after Bommasandra bridge, we got caught up in a huge traffic jam. When we were in the middle of this, colleagues sent messages that there is a huge jam in EC. At Veerasandra signal, I saw lot of policemen too. Here, I Decided to take a u turn back towards Hebbagodi and then again took a U-turn onto the service road on the right side. With this, I reached the nice road in 10 mins and on the main carriageway towards Bangalore was blocked completely. If not for the timely messages, I would've had to spend another 30 mins at least on the road. It was an unusually bad jam. Thankfully I escaped but I was wondering could've happened because nothing was visible on the road. Later in the day, I came to know the reason in the local news channels and today morning in newspapers ![]() ![]() |
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| ![]() For some one in Indiranagar, wouldn't travelling via the Hennur-Bagalur road be more optimal? |
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Alternatively you could still use the Budigere Cross option and connect up with the second entrance. This should shave off about 15 minutes from the regular route around Devanahalli. Though longer, the Budigere option is just a much more relaxing drive and takes about the same time as any other route + I save 125 bucks on the toll. | |
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| ![]() Dashboard cameras now catching on for self protection ![]() http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...le18402292.ece |
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I live (I mean work) in ecospace for the past 7 years, and let me tell you the situation presently is much better than how it was one year back. They have done quite lot of regulations, restrictions around the Ecospace, which includes the sky walk, which has been a big relief. I could not imagine to bring car once upon a time to office. Most of the evenings in those days the pile ups starts right from the basement. Now, except for those rainy days, it does not go that bad. Yemlur/Marathahalli - Both does not make any much difference. But while returning back, I see that the Marathahalli stretch doesnt get as choked as the Bellandur Village roads. While in the mornings, it would be better to take Yemlur route, because otherwise if coming from Marathahalli, you need to go to ISRO U-Turn to get back on ring road. Timings - Before 08:30AM get in to the Ecospace; Before 05:30PM Start from Ecospace. Atleast that is what I follow and looks to be the best time. (Not considering the the night shift timings) | |
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I tried going towards the Airport, but turned back at Bagalur where there was a traffic jam due to a local wedding. Roads were wide and newly asphalted till Bagalur but then it became narrow, so no idea how it is beyond that point. I also heard that the last stretch near the airport is a muddy track and work has been halted due to some 220MW electrical line passing below (they are contemplating moving that). However, traffic was low, so even taking Hennur-Bagalur Road and turning off towards Kogilu and then going via Kogilu Cross, NH 7 (Airport Road) to the airport could be a good option. You could also take the Bagalur main road and get to NH7 and then the airport. Bagalur Main road and Kogilu road are almost parallel roads (both perpendicular to Hennur-Bagalur Road) and merge onto NH7. *One pain point is the junction at ORR service road for Hennur Road entry, but usually cops are there even on Sunday mornings ![]() Quote:
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Yes, the last bit connection from the boundary wall to the first roundabout is a dirt road for now. | |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() That is the only KSEB mains connection to whole of KIAL 😦. KIAL is panic stricken at the thought of fiddling with it! |
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| ![]() Today I saw a cab driver solving a Rubik's cube while driving. ![]() ![]() I thought I had seen every possible weird things on Bangalore road's, but the Bangalore traffic never disappoints me. |
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| ![]() I had written about BMTC's safety initiative in this thread a few days ago. It seems the effort is yet to bear fruit. Killer BMTC has put another life (a man on a bicycle) to end near NTTF Peenya today. The driver is said to have absconded after the accident, leaving the bus behind. Local TV channels are running this news since morning. Quote:
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