[bharat4ever]

So a waterfall erupted last night due to the rains. Location, Hosur road, near Singasandhra.

[HalfOctave]

I stayed in Bangalore for 2 years from 2009 to 2010. Bangalore at that time was my favourite city. Just because of its climate, avenues and transport. I remember travelling in pre-paid auto from one place to another peacefully.

However, i have made many visit to Bangalore after that. And I must say the public transport of the city has gone haywire. The growth of bangalore is kind of going into unsustainable direction. Limited buses, auto-walla asking aky high rates, traffic traffic everywhere.

The only solution to solve this rants on bangalore traffic is to have public transport.

[arun_josie]

Originally Posted by arun_josie

I am not sure who is responsible for this, but an electric post on the middle of the road is idiotic.
I have posted this in Bangalore Traffic Police facebook page as well.

Here is the response from BTP. Asking me to report this to Mayor through Twitter, Facebook, Email. I have done the same.

Noted, we will bring this matter concerned authorities and pls inform BBMP Mayor Bangalore <mayorbangalore@gmail.com>, <mayor@bbmp.gov.in> (BBMP control room 080-22975803) & https://twitter.com/BBMPCOMM1 bbmp mayor facebook page < https://www.facebook.com/ManjunathaReddy172>

So, they are blaming it on BBMP.

[tibby]

Noted today that Cauvery Circle Underpass has been blocked for traffic (from Sadashivnagar Bashyam Circle to Cauvery Junction).

Apparently, a flyover is in the works at the Cauvery junction, for seamless movement of traffic from Palace Gutahalli Bus Stop towards Bellary Road.
Saw a JCB already in action removing the road divider.

[suresh_gs]

Originally Posted by HalfOctave

The only solution to solve this rants on bangalore traffic is to have public transport.

The metro needs to come up quickly. Right now we have the connectivity between Mysore road and Baiyyapanahalli. Still the IT corridor is not covered by Metro. Places like Electronic city, Whitefield, Koramangala need to be covered under Metro.
To solve the rants on Bangalore traffic in addition to Metro rail, may be companies should start identifying if it is required for all employees to come to office. Certain teams should be given the option of work from home. On need basis they can come to office.
By doing so a sizable chunk of vehicles will go off the road. When the govt starts metro construction, traffic will be there but not to that extent (I hope so).

[procrj]

Originally Posted by tibby

Noted today that Cauvery Circle Underpass has been blocked for traffic (from Sadashivnagar Bashyam Circle to Cauvery Junction).

Apparently, a flyover is in the works at the Cauvery junction, for seamless movement of traffic from Palace Gutahalli Bus Stop towards Bellary Road.
Saw a JCB already in action removing the road divider.

Saw the block yesterday evening and was wondering what is cooking. Thanks for this info. Looks like I will have to use the 1.5 lane guttahalli road to get to sankey signal from guttahalli side

[tibby]

Originally Posted by procrj

Saw the block yesterday evening and was wondering what is cooking. Thanks for this info. Looks like I will have to use the 1.5 lane guttahalli road to get to sankey signal from guttahalli side

Yes. With this (much delayed) project, its best to avoid Sankey Road & Bellary Road to the extent possible.

Interiors of Guttahalli & Sadashivnagar shall be quite clogged now onwards.

[nagarjun]

Originally Posted by arun_josie

I am not sure who is responsible for this, but an electric post on the middle of the road is idiotic. And not even a sign or reflector to caution the road users. Can't imagine someone following the median line at night and then bumping in to this post. Its not about just crashing on this, any last-minute evasive action can be fatal for oncoming traffic on the other lane as well.

Location: Gottigere Lake Road, Off Bannerghatta Road.

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I have posted this in Bangalore Traffic Police facebook page as well.

Not quite as bad as this one, but there is one in old madras road as well. I have raised a sahaaya ticket with BBMP and been following up with them. So far it's been a merry go around by calling one officer after another.

I can't understand, someone laying the road like this with a right frame of mind. This is so dangerous and should be treated as a criminal negligence.

[audioholic]

Pedestrian skywalk is partially assembled in front of ecospace. Guess they should complete it next weekend.

[sandsun7]

Originally Posted by tibby

Noted today that Cauvery Circle Underpass has been blocked for traffic (from Sadashivnagar Bashyam Circle to Cauvery Junction).

Apparently, a flyover is in the works at the Cauvery junction, for seamless movement of traffic from Palace Gutahalli Bus Stop towards Bellary Road.
Saw a JCB already in action removing the road divider.

BTP has closed the underpass since saturday morning. If you are moving from Bashyam circle side to sankey road, you have to stay on the ground level ramp at the underpass, take left towards mekhri circle, take the up ramp (ground level) at Mekhri circle underpass and take a U turn at the top of the underpass.
Quote a detour.
Already there was lot of congestion on saturday at the point where the Bellary road and the road from bashyam circle meet, near the Girias/Enfield showroom.

[LonelyPlanet]

Originally Posted by audioholic

Pedestrian skywalk is partially assembled in front of ecospace. Guess they should complete it next weekend.

Internal memos in my organisation show a date of 15 June for getting itoperational. Keeping fingers crossed.

[sanjaykk]

Originally Posted by audioholic

Pedestrian skywalk is partially assembled in front of ecospace. Guess they should complete it next weekend.

This skywalk seems to be hiding the direction signboards while coming down the Bellandur flyover, effectively rendering the signboards useless.

[airbus]

Traffic building up from Marathahalli to Kadubeesanahalli underpass due to bus break down.

[silversteed]

Originally Posted by audioholic

Pedestrian skywalk is partially assembled in front of ecospace. Guess they should complete it next weekend.

The skeleton, or "backbone" is ready, hopefully the FOB will be operational soon. I wish they erect 8' or 10' fences on the median to prevent educated monkeys from darting across, and force them to use the designated path - the FOB, to cross the ORR.

Originally Posted by sanjaykk

This skywalk seems to be hiding the direction signboards while coming down the Bellandur flyover, effectively rendering the signboards useless.

It's a small price to pay to avoid the many near-misses and accidents, and also the kilometre long jams caused due to the ORR traffic being stopped to let pedestrians cross the road. With some pressure, the authorities can be made to shift the signboards to a more visible location once the FOB is made operational.

[audioholic]

Originally Posted by LonelyPlanet

Internal memos in my organisation show a date of 15 June for getting itoperational. Keeping fingers crossed.

Thats great. I hope they do force people to use the same since we will still have some lazy ones who would prefer crossing the road. But the structure looks good and the climb though long is not steep.

Originally Posted by sanjaykk

This skywalk seems to be hiding the direction signboards while coming down the Bellandur flyover, effectively rendering the signboards useless.

Haha yes, but I think once this is done, the signboards can be hung down from the skywalk itself. Thats a smaller problem compared to the infinitely long traffic holdup here. So much that nobody gives a damn about the signboard