Rethinking road-widening - Tunnels?

Transmogrifier - 22-JUN-2010

One of the core infrastructural issues we are facing is an inability of our arterial roads and highways to provide rapid cross-town access. Globally, city and highway planners recognize and create different infrastructure for highways and city roads. See Dr. Joglekar’s posts here for a succinct description of this problem plaguing most Indian cities. A simple schematic (full size image here)and an inventory of city highways reveals the problem.

Thru Highways:

1. NH7 (in blue)
2. NH4 (in red)

Terminal Highways:

Say no to widening of trees-lined Sankey Road Petition

indian - 13-MAY-2010

The proposed six-lane corridor is expected to result in chopping of about 150 well-grown trees. The widening entails felling of about 150 trees on both sides of the stretch, besides occupying a good portion of the historic tank. It'll/It'd destroy the beauty of one of the posh localities of the City.

Mysore Road - Choke Point 1 - Guddadahalli Junction

Srivatsava - 2-APR-2010

The BBMP has propsed that the stretch from Sirsi Circle to Gali Anjaneya Temple on Mysore Road be widened. This involves chopping trees all along the stretch. These are already well-known plans from the news reports and praja discussions. There are a couple of estimates on the number of trees to be chopped some saying 50 and some 100+. But, lets not be get into the numbers. Whats important is to find ways to solve the bottleneck without chopping the trees, if any available.

Mysore Road starts from KR Market. Vehicles zip across from Town hall on the flyover for about 2.5 kms, pass over the Sirsi Circle, and get struck at the ramp of the flyover. Why ? There is a choke point immediately after the flyover (about 150mts away).

Road Widening - T C Palya Main Road

swamisg - 23-NOV-2009

Friends,

I recently moved to Akshay Nagar, and I am happy to see that the road are getting repaired, filled in with Mud & stones and subsequently tarred.

Couple of days ago we had seen markings in all the building with measurement given in meteres.  We want to know wheter any proposals are there for road widening and what will the future of  buildings there (the road is covered with 6 flats which is over 2-5 years old and all the flats were getting affected worstly).  If there is a proposal for road widening then why the same is getting repaired now?

Could any one clarify this?

Work on Old Madras/Hope Farm road towards ITPL

Clive VanBuerle - 6-JUL-2009

Good day everybody!

Tree row: Representative suit filed in City Court - Star of Mysore June 25

indian - 26-JUN-2009

Three youth from the city have filed a representative suit in the Second Additional Munsiff Court here against felling of trees for widening the Lalitha Mahal Road.

Judge Radhakrishna allowed the petition yesterday.

Videographing / Video recording of traffic on Lalitha Mahal Road on June 19

indian - 18-JUN-2009

On Wed, June 17, 2009, I did the manual counting of vehicular traffic on the Lalitha Mahal Road between 17:04 to 17:35 hours by standing mid-way/in between the Sangolli Rayanna (Chamundi Hill) Circle and the Lalitha Mahal Road.

Trees at risk in present day Mysore

SANJAY - 14-JUN-2009

Cutting trees for road widening - Save Trees

What are they smoking ?

rs - 25-MAY-2009

One has to really wonder what the BBMP is smoking - 

www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx

Baner Road - Safety concern

Sudhir Menon - 19-MAR-2009

Tried to post this concern in the 'suggestion' portal of Pune Traffic Police, but apparently it is not functional. Was wondering if there is some one in Praja team who is in touch with Pune Traffic police on Safety issues ?