Pedestrian skywalk at KR Puram Ring Road chaos, finally

silkboard - 7-MAR-2010

I am not a fan of skywalks (prefer regular ped-signals, or underpass), but the chaos that this place is - Outer Ring Road/Old Madras Road junction near Tin Factory, K R Puram - a pedestrian skywalk to cross 8 lanes of thick traffic should help. After our last round of complaints etc, the pedestrian signals had been operating for some time, they still are - either the light turns red, or cops stop traffic to let pedestrians cross. The skywalk (such a late arrival) is perhaps part of signal-free ORR project.

And more skywalks are announced

s_yajaman - 10-FEB-2010

 BBMP yet again announces more skywalks.  This seems to be in addition to the 50 or 60 that have not seen the light of day.  

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/51790/skywalk-ease-over-busy-bangalore.html

Pedestrian bridge across Intermediate Ring Road

deepakar - 12-FEB-2009

Embassy Golf Links on Intermediate Ring Road, Koramangala is one of first IT parks in Bangalore and houses large facilities of several MNCs such as IBM, Microsoft, Netapp, Yahoo and Goldman Sachs. This campus houses thousands of employees. One huge problem that the employees face is to cross the street right outside their facility.

Bangalore's new Skywalk locations

Bengloorappa - 23-SEP-2008

BBMP has come out with an EOI document for construction of 56 Skywalks with escalators in 14 packages, here it is (link to pdf)

Some of the locations that stand out in terms of utility and usefulness are,

56 motorized sky walks for pedestrians!

silkboard - 30-DEC-2007

Not that BBMP doesn't care for pedestrians. They have been talking about motorized sky walks for sometime now, and earlier this week, a BBMP tender showed up with plans for sky walks all around the city - 56 of them, and with escalators!

"These sky walks are proposed with attractive escalators of adequate capacity on both sides of the road which shall facilitate the vertical movement of the users for climbing as well alighting purposes"

As I said, the fancy skywalk talk isn't new. Earlier this year, BBMP had plans for 30 "capsule lift" based sky walks, refer this tender dated 12th Feb 2007:

Figure 4 Pedestrian Facilities

admin123 - 14-NOV-2007

Figure 4 Pedestrian Facilities

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