Absence of city planning has resulted in mushrooming of apartment complexes/ shops/ hotels etc besides ring roads. Better plan would have been to build townships besides the ring road and an exit from the main road to such townships. Inside the township maintain residential area as well commercial places. Also, make sure to have sufficient space left between the ring road and the first building of the township. Unfortunately people want to have their house closer to the main road. Closeness to the ring road means loud noise from the speeding vehicles (mainly trucks). Even terrible is some drivers make continuous honk and get some kind of satisfaction by doing so. Somehow people staying in the apartments close to the ring road get used to the noise to a certain extent. But for the guests it is difficult to adjust. Guests left earlier than their schedule just because of noise level (and also decided to avoid the visits as much as possible).
Shops on either side of the ring road meant, people started to cross this road (total of six lanes high speed and another 2+2 service road lanes) with heavy traffic. Few weeks ago, on one unfortunate day, an old lady from our apartment complex crossed the road to visit a dentist on the other side of the road. While coming back she could not gaze the taxi's speed and ended up taxi hitting her with a screeching break. She passed away 2 hours later in a hospital. This is one of the deaths that happen daily in namma Bengaluru. Human life has no meaning. Neither people care nor government cares! An underpass could have saved her life.
Just underpass won't help, because given an option, people usually take the shortcut. So enforcement (fencing at the road divider, blocking any road crossing) is a must for some generation until use of better options becomes a norm. An underpass exists on airport road near Domlur (nobody who drives on that road would ever notice its existence). Nobody used it and it turned out to be a shitty place.
There are other issues for having underpass as well. Mainly all the cables (telephone, tv) and the drainage pipes etc run just below the ground surface.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Lack of underpass for ring roads.
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well its aweful! traffic is also heavy these days, Its better to use map if you new to bangalore, I think this will help you Bengaluru Map
The traffic sense is a matter of great concern and so is the value of life. It is really sad that we are rushing and flaunting the success of our development but we are not developing our nature. We say that respect family values are very high in India but one example is people will shout or curse at an elderly gentleman the same way they are shouting at 21 year old person for a mistake he did. Hope our schools tech our kids the civic values and not just high grades to get into Hifi institutes. Cause the same kids will stop respecting us when we grow old..
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