Are you okay giving priority to buses on Bengaluru roads?

silkboard - 12-OCT-2010

* Absolutely yes, make long dedicated bus lanes * Yes, but only where road or junction is wide enough * In theory yes, but don't know how you will do it * No, do not slow down my cars and mobikes.

Road Lanes - Will it work in India?

idontspam - 26-JUL-2010

 In a good piece called Why is lane discipline so indisciplined here? Praveen Sood Addl CP, Traffic, Bangalore raises the important question of

Separate lanes for emergency service vehicles

nityashree - 28-MAR-2010

Often do we hear a screaming ambulance held up in traffic signals of some busy roads such as K.H. Road or Mallya Road that also lead to important hospitals (Nimhans or Mallya hospitals). I really wonder if any of these ambulances make it on time?

I dont know whether the traffic police are informed by the policemen at the previous signals or the time that the cops have to clear the traffic for the ambulance is too short?! I'm sure that they don't do it on purpose, but the strategy of handling this situation must be surely wrong! and we turnout to be helpless onlookers...

So, I think that it would be more sensible to have separate emergency lanes (similar to the existing auto lanes-that I feel are not very important though...) for ambulances and fire-brigades at least on highly congested roads leading to important hospitals...

The very thought of having our dear one in one of the ambulances that will fail to make on time to the hospital is so horrifying that this is the time to bring in the change.

With best regards,

Nityashree

Hosur Road : 4 lanes better than 6

srkulhalli - 29-AUG-2009

[Admin's note: These are the sort of posts that need to be highlighted on Praja - Aggregated or Original analytical work to talk specifics about the problems or solutions.

Redesign of Hosur Road as model road : Footpath and cycle tracks

srkulhalli - 5-AUG-2009

Background: Had an unplanned meeting with BBMP, thanks to Ashiwn/SB. Part of our initiative for better road design. This was at an hours notice on a weekday and was pretty much took half the day, so was not a good candidate for an event. Anyways, we discussed the pedestrian infrastructure, footpaths etc.

Tidal flow lanes

idontspam - 25-FEB-2009

Also called reversible lanes. A reversible lane (called a counterflow lane or contraflow lane in transport engineering nomenclature) is a lane in which traffic may travel in either direction, depending on certain conditions.

The crooked signs

silkboard - 4-DEC-2008

I think its a challenge, a real one. How do you convey, via simple road signs, the so modern concept of looping road interchanges!? Try describing an interchange when giving out directions - is that a left, or a right that you take from Inner Ring Road to get on to airport road towards HAL? The road signs around such interchanges convey this confusion really well. Some samples for you:

Implementing bus priority on narrow roads - proposal submitted to Pune Municipal Corporation

asj - 9-NOV-2008

Please find a significantly more detailed as well as an updated proposal for implementing bus priority on SB Road, Pune a 80 feet wide road not conducive to Bogota style BRTS with median lanes and median bus stops.
 

Bus Priority Examples: Manchester Automatic Traffic Bollards

asj - 30-OCT-2008

This is rather amusing but its a great example of ensuring bus priority - and though this stuff can be used on segregated bus lanes in Delhi and Pune, they may be best considered for implementing peripheral bus lanes with success.

Trademark Bengaluru Road

sandeepmr - 29-AUG-2008

Spotted a video on Flickr uploaded by some visitor probably on his way to the airport. I don’t recognize the road in the video (not because I have been out of Bangalore for some time now), because all the roads and more importantly the road conditions are strikingly similar nowadays.

Quick observations: