It is an interesting way the new underpasses or flyovers built on the outer ring road (especially from silk boar junction to KR puram bridge).
This is very bad design according to me (unless I come to know of any advantages which I can't see now). What is design? Well, the flyovers or under pass in each direction are built leaving middle space for some other road.
What this makes:
1. It leaves very small space for the service road. Mind it combined middle half road and the short service road would have made proper two-lane road (or at least wider). Now there would be four single lane service roads (two in the middle and two in the outer side.
2. The shorter service road also means, the footpath is either very small or does not exist at all.
3. The traffic on the main road, now will have exits on both the sides. This means there is a potential slow down. We made the road signal free but not a constant speed road. And also this gives chance for some unplanned people to make random lane switches.
4. By doing those underpasses/flyovers _OFF_ the main road direction, the aesthetic of the road itself is bad. It is not straight lane anymore!
Only advantage I can see, in future you want to create a center elevated road or metro track, it is useless way of real estate management.
I also felt that, some of the busy districts, the road space could have been better used. For example, creating concrete structure with all the roads and potential parking lots and of course shopping places for the middle/lower class (currently those are on the roads). Also having sheltered bus stops inside such concrete structure is an advantage.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
New flyovers and underpasses
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This could have done similiar to CT Market Fly Over.
I am daily using this road to come to my office. I too felt same . Generaly there is best practice while taking up a new fly over or a structure. have you ever seen a trafic check gate on a Fly Over? It is there in langfrac Rd Fly Over. It is sure a design mistake while constructing the langfrac Fly Over.
It is also mentioned by Ramachandra Guha in his weekly article in TOI.
Generaly in india we go certificate/Degree .... May be these construction companies or Govt ppl involved in this project have alll legar certificate to this not the required expertise......
I am daily using this road to come to my office. I too felt same . Generaly there is best practice while taking up a new fly over or a structure. Generaly we do Prototype testing before taking up such large scale progect where lots of stuff involved. which is practce in western world or Developed world. have you ever seen a trafic check gate on a Fly Over? It is there in langfrac Rd Fly Over. It is sure a design mistake while constructing the langfrac Fly Over.
It is also mentioned by Ramachandra Guha in his weekly article in TOI.
Generaly in india we go certificate/Degree .... May be these construction companies or Govt ppl involved in this project have alll legar certificate to this not the required expertise......
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