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| ![]() To put the current situation in perspective - usually this is the time when a lot of people are on leave (for Diwali). I know that quite a few of my friends have leaves for 2 weeks, some are leaving this weekend; and still the traffic is what it is right now. Add to it, citizens are dying because of accidents caused by craters on the road. I don't know why BBMP and the current Bangalore Minister cannot be made accountable for this. To say the officials are shameless is actually a very mild statement. Building a road is no rocket science - I wonder why this Govt and everyone involved can't get this simple thing right. Coming from a small village in erstwhile Bihar, I saw such bad roads in the 90s and never else. Going out on a bike is a nightmare. Stay safe guys. |
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BHPian Join Date: May 2008 Location: Bengaluru
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![]() Not that those involved cannot get things done. The corporators, contractors, engineers, builders and ministers all are hand in gloves and ensuring that the city dies a premature death. All that matters is that their coffers should get filled. Everybody is busy with the elections which are round the corner now. People can wait, roads can wait, raja kaluve/drainages - they are already encroached nothing can be done now. People are dying on roads - blame it on everything except potholes. Authorities are not from this planet - they have better stuff to do. It is ordinary citizen on the road who is a fool. Roads and potholes are for ordinary mortals. Wade through the muck, work and pay the taxes - do not ask anything back !!! ![]() | |
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BHPian Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() This road is just after Ejipura going towards Sony Signal Koramangala. Water from the Army Grounds on IRR flows towards the Drain near Sony Signal causing flood like situation and Hugh Traffic Jams EVERY SINGLE YEAR. Sometimes this water overflows through footpath and floods nearby residence and commercial complexes filling basement and damaging Vehicles. The Drain nearby overflows/breaches and blocks the entire stretch from Maharaja Hotel to Wipro Signal on Koramangala 80ft Road causing property damage and loss of Business. |
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() This area was all once known as "Srinivagilu lake", and it was later used to build up all fancy sounding business units and housing units. It is the blatant encroachments and building commercial complexes, housing units without realising the topography of the area which caused this problem. |
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| ![]() This is what a car and human has to go through day in and day out, this road was in this condition from 2 years ![]() |
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BHPian Join Date: May 2008 Location: Bengaluru
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| ![]() What was once a beautiful city has now turned into a mess. Everybody is to blame for this. When commercial interests take precedence over decent living, this is what is bound to happen. One of three things that can kill a city: 1. When there are no good engineers/planners who understand the city's topography. I still believe engineers/planners in 18th and 19th century were better than the current generation lot. ![]() 2. When there are good engineers/planners who can understand but their hands are tied by vested interests. 3. When there are good engineers/planners and also supporting bureaucracy/elected representatives but people and commercial interests force them to go with the flow. I suppose it is the combination of 2 and 3 above. An online magazine had an article recently outlining Bengaluru's topography, its history and subsequent downward spiral towards self destruction. This sums it up: Quote:
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BHPian Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Bangalore
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In last 10 years of my presence here, I have never seen such battering received by one area every single day for a month due to natures fury to punish man for his greed. It was Mohammed Ali vs ST Bed, one sided contest. | |
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| ![]() Google Maps suggests an alternative to the above road to go to RMZ ecoworld, through Adarsh Palm Retreat. But it is blocked by private guards, atleast in the mornings. I have observed that drivers who try to take the Adarsh route to go towards RMZ ecoworld side are shooed away by the private guards stationed at the start of the road. I have doubts if blocking a thoroughfare like that is allowed, as the roads inside residential layouts are supposed to be public roads as per BBMP rules. |
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I am not sure how to take it up with authorities to stop this nuisance. Everyday, I see people being sent away. | |
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| ![]() Metamorphical ! The note on auto says : "If the Govt can call the potholes as roads, will it be wrong to call my auto as helicopter?" Badal Nanjundaswamy is back ! According to ANI, Mr Nanjundaswamy's unique protest comes after at least four deaths were reported over the past week in accidents caused by potholes. https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/in-beng...t-site-1762510 Last edited by Rudra Sen : 13th October 2017 at 17:52. Reason: merging back to back posts |
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| ![]() If you look at buildings on ORR and whitefield areas, where are the specifications of having percentage of area as roads, parks etc ? (of public consumption). If layouts have to follow these specifications, why not these gated tech parks or housing communities which occupy the same area or even more than small layouts ? I dont believe in private layouts and private developments. They use the smaller village era roads and block a huge area out. There can be new roads going through or any new big roads around those developments. You can see this around ORR and old airport road going towards varthur. The maps showing the decline of green area is misleading. You can see solid red in the middle of the first picture. That was the size of Bengaluru then and the green areas were villages. The red areas just expanded as the city expanded. They should have maintained the green areas in between but then its land, pricier and precious. Even now people who are worried cant do anything. People who are supposed to dont care. Its like in the movies where a goon will look at a common man and ask "what you going to do ? uh... what you... going..... to... do.... Well we have a thread where we rant.. Last edited by srishiva : 13th October 2017 at 18:12. |
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