Bellandur traffic woes

In busy hours, most of the junctions have traffic jam problem. The one at the Bellandur junction is no different or may be one of the worst ones. Morning 8 to 10 and evening 5.30 to 7.30, when the vehicle accumulation is at its peak. At these timings, the service roads are also occupied by the vehicles in the same direction as the main roads. These service roads suppose to cater opposite direction movement to reach interior parts of residential area (instead of going to end of main road and then coming back) is not at all possible. See photos below:


The traffic visible is for two lane service road. The three lane of the main road would be usually five lane :-). >Here is the image showing those three lanes during a Sunday morning...

Hope they take up some underpass path for this outer ring road here, very soon!

Look at the cables flying in the second image above! In Shimogga yesterday two boys died as a broken electric cable touched the ground. Few weeks ago, there was an article in newspapers about construction underpass could happen in 72 hours (some additional days for groundwork before and after). Today, they ran another news briefing that it takes much much longer to get it done. Other part of the story is the cost of this ready made underpass is 10 crores Rs, but for the ground work related to moving the cables/pipelines etc is 10 crores! Planning is needed (whie drawing electric lines, fibre optic lines, cable tv lines, telephone lines, water pipes, drainage pipes) and proper, proper plan to cater future requirements!! Cable TV guys just run the cable whatever easiest path they can take.