Saturday, January 29, 2005
Bangalore Roads - the problems galore !!
As mentioned in my first post I want this blog to reflect my frustrations at everything that's in Bangalore that's well, frustrating. It might be any of the following :
- Roads
- Cops
- Road Digging
- Traffic Signals
- Flyovers and their construction timelines (and anything else)
We'll add to the above as time flies but this post is going to be about some of the above.
Let's first take an objective look at some of the big problems I want to highlight :
- Road conditions - these are one of the worst I've come across anywhere in the world. From the POV of being in a metropolitan city (they say BLR is cosmopolitan) this city has one of the worst road systems I've ever seen. I've been in several cities across the world (Boston, NY, SF, Bangkok, Singapore, Miami and closer home in Chennai, Delhi) but this takes the absolute c-a-k-e. Some reasons :
- Potholes spring up as soon as it rains even for an hour.
- Potholes don't get filled up within reasonable amount of time by the organizations concerned (BCC,BDA, BWWSWWB - are there anymore I wonder)
- Some of these potholes develop into craters as days go by (sometimes within hours). Some frustrated citizens then cover up these craters with mud and stones and eventually they take the shape of mounds. Watch for these in Marathalli market. Some day I'll take a snap and post them here.
- Metalling of the roads leaves much to be desired. Cracks and fissures appear within no time
- Road planning - by this I mean the amount of time spent for an average commute from point X to point Y. This is never constant. Courtesy the traffic load at any given point of time. Also courtesy the number of people who do not want to maintain lane discipline.
I'll post more on this later.
- Roads
- Cops
- Road Digging
- Traffic Signals
- Flyovers and their construction timelines (and anything else)
We'll add to the above as time flies but this post is going to be about some of the above.
Let's first take an objective look at some of the big problems I want to highlight :
- Road conditions - these are one of the worst I've come across anywhere in the world. From the POV of being in a metropolitan city (they say BLR is cosmopolitan) this city has one of the worst road systems I've ever seen. I've been in several cities across the world (Boston, NY, SF, Bangkok, Singapore, Miami and closer home in Chennai, Delhi) but this takes the absolute c-a-k-e. Some reasons :
- Potholes spring up as soon as it rains even for an hour.
- Potholes don't get filled up within reasonable amount of time by the organizations concerned (BCC,BDA, BWWSWWB - are there anymore I wonder)
- Some of these potholes develop into craters as days go by (sometimes within hours). Some frustrated citizens then cover up these craters with mud and stones and eventually they take the shape of mounds. Watch for these in Marathalli market. Some day I'll take a snap and post them here.
- Metalling of the roads leaves much to be desired. Cracks and fissures appear within no time
- Road planning - by this I mean the amount of time spent for an average commute from point X to point Y. This is never constant. Courtesy the traffic load at any given point of time. Also courtesy the number of people who do not want to maintain lane discipline.
I'll post more on this later.
