SUCH a badly designed flyover

[deponti]

I have a sort of maternal interest in that misbegotten child of the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, the Jayadeva flyover. I want to point out here, another instance of bad design. You would think that when they design a flyover on a busy arterial road (it's also a highway), they would make allowances for bus stops...ha, ha, ha

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[usha123]

and those of us who live on the wrong side of Bannerghatta Road now find it almost impossible to get to the other side on foot..so now I am in the paradoxical situation of driving to my morning walk at the mini forest because I dont fancy being in the newspapers the next morning as 'pedestrian hit from behind, etc..'

maybe some of us should get together to make a serious representation to BMP and BMRTC reg bus stops and pedestrian crossings..

Blame the buses, not the design of the flyover

[manubhardwaj]

On the other hand, I think the flyover has helped traffic flow tremendously. Given that I only drive in an air-conditioned car to and from Jayanagar (and don't take walks at the miniforest), the flyover has been a huge boon. After I pass the small traffic jam near Jeedi Maraa bus stand, it's a breeze to get all the way to Jayanagar: either using the underpass till Sagar Apollo or by taking a left turn near Progeon.

When you think about it, the flyover design has nothing to do with the bus stops. The bus stops are artificially created by the BMTC or by the demand of the passengers themselves. By order, the buses should be told not to stop at the flyover, but instead to stop at designated stops before or after it. In fact, the problem is bigger than that: BTMC buses everywhere must be forced to queue up rather than keep trying to overtake each other.

Previously, our house used to be an untarred throughfare on an untarred road, and every single exit was a traffic jam: either towards BTM or towards Jayanagar. Now everything is so much

[jace]

iawtc.

iawtc?

[usha123]

?

Don't even talk about this!

[wondernoon]

Goodness - this is the first time I flew out of Bnglr international airport. I couldn't believe that our great tech city airport is such a huge mess. Utter chaos! I mean here I was trying to stand in line following some unwritten civic code, holding my baby, maneuvering the cart with the suitcases and my hand luggage to boot - the "airport staff" (aka porter is all they meant) who the airlines said would help me, took the money and helped me from just outside the airport entrance to the inside and that's it - I was on my own! And relatives cannot come in to help either. So if you are traveling alone with a baby god save you there! No help whatsoever. And it was like a herd of goats were let loose - every one was jostling everyone around them and their carts and moving towards the check in counter! No real line - free for all! I was driven to tears. Thankfully two guys - who I later found out was the catering manager for Malaysian and his subordinate - who I just randomly asked for help since they were in uniform came to my aid and

[jace]

A new international airport, that's what. Bangalore's airport is severely overloaded for the volumes it handles.

[usha123]

agree. ONE luggage carousel for 3 incoming international flights the last time I flew in..but it is a little depressing that almost every other airport in India is better than the HAL airport. Cochin has a lovely airport - Ithink it is a privately managed..I mean, think of it, Cochin which is not even the capital of Kerala has an international standard airport while the IT city struggles. By the way, every single time I pass thru Bangalore airport, I leave a filled suggestion form on the state of the bathrooms and get an official acknowledgement several weeks later saying thank you, we are looking into it:-)

[usha123]

Deepa, I just got out the contact e mail ids of
BMP: suggestions@bmponline.org, contact@egovernments.org
MD of BMTC: md@bmtcinfo.com
DCP Traffic Bangalore East: dcomeast@bcp@gov.in
do you think it is a good idea to summarize your blog and mail it all of them with the very descriptive pictures?

[deponti]

thanks Usha! That was so helpful. Yes, a prompt email is going out, with a cc to the only IAS officer (Lukose Vallathrai)whom I know...

Thank you so much. Part of the frustration was not being able to DO anything, now I can at least email them...

[itsalouwelylife]

The last time I was in Bangalore, I remember we took more than an hour to get from Brigade Road to the airport. Has that situation improved, with all these new flyovers? Of course, deponti , you know what my knowledge of Bangalore topography is - Concentric circles around Lalbagh!

Readers of deponti 's journal, this is something I discovered over my numerous trips to Bangalore - We would be driving around, and there would be this huge wall around which we would skirt ever so often. Upon asking, the answer would always be "Lalbagh Wall". So in my mind, Lalbagh is right in the centre of Bangalore and to go anywhere from anywhere, you must drive around Lalbagh wall!! :D !! It's a circle or a series of concentric circles. Where did all these straight looking flyovers come from!! (ahhhh... ignoramus... that's me alright!) ;)

[deponti]

itsalouwelylife (and how hard that is to type out! why couldn't you have chosen some 3-letter word for your LJ id, my dear!) seemed so surrounded by the Lalbagh wall that we were thinking of changing the name of the place to Walbagh!

I have no idea why I seem to have been driving her around the bend driving her around the wall--probably getting from JP Nagar to MG Road and back, avoiding the work on the being-built-forever flyovers....