Understanding "sustainable" - the Whitefield Marathahalli case study

silkboard - 1-MAR-2013

ORR has become a private bus boarding point

GNT - 4-AUG-2012

I am not sure how many of you travel on ORR near Marathalli or pass through the area. Multiple private operators start their long distance routes from the junction and they park their vehicles on Marathalli ORR underpass from 6pm through 9pm..

Bus stand locations, easy walking for bus change @ Marathahalli

silkboard - 2-MAY-2012

We have been making very slow progress on putting together this LAMP. Why not do an ideation exercise as part of the project online. For the LAMP, we talked of working on designated entry points to the local area, as in Whitefield. Take Marathahalli.

Street meet @ marathahalli ring road chaos aka junction (date changed)

silkboard - 21-JUN-2011

Let us meet on Wed June 29 (updated), at 5.30 PM bang at the Marathahalli ring road junction to capture the chaos and neglect of pedestrians, most of whom are bus commuters. Venue of meeting - , right at the corner on Old Airport/Varthur Road where buses coming from Whitefield turn left towards Ring Road.

Bangalore's hall of shame - 3rd class treatment for Bus commuters @ Marathahalli

silkboard - 20-JUN-2011

Sometime ago, we discussed Bangalore hall of shame locations, and Marathahalli Outer Ring Road junction. After one round of work to 'improve' pavements where in they basically widened the roads connecting Outer Ring road and Varthur Road, and installed barricades to prevent pedestrian spill over, this junction has been left as it is.

New BDA layouts and Commuter Rail stations - Belandur Road, Karmelaram

silkboard - 11-MAY-2010

Following up on post frpm IDS to detail out the Hebbal station, it is worth it to dig deep into possibilities for Belandur Road and Karmelaram Stations.

The case today

Look at the location of the station, and you can see that:

Ordeal ... I went through

Ankzz - 14-MAR-2010

Today evening while returning from Marathalli,  while I was driving along with my friend, a guy on Yamaha takes a left cut in front of me. It was such an extreme cut, I somehow saved the guy and in return screamed and asked to drive properly. The guy and pillion riders stare at me, but I continued on my way.

After a while, they overtake me and ask to stop. I stopped and they started screaming. I started explaining that what he had done was wrong. In no mood to listen, they both start landing blows on me. And they thunder," you come to our area and scream at us, how dare you?". They beat me black and blue and you know what all the people in crowd around were saying, "Yeh , they speak hindi. They cant scream at them. and all started murmuring against us"

Seeing the crowd support for them, I continually said "Sorry" while both were landing blows on me and my friend as well. No one from the crowd even mediated. Some how when they saw blood on my face, they left after hitting me badly in my stomach.

Road width over pavement - Marathahalli example

silkboard - 19-OCT-2009

First of all, credits to BDA or BBMP or ABIDe (who knows!?) or whoever is thinking about bus interchange points like Marathahalli ring Road and improving the pedestrian amenities there. So yes, something is better than nothing. However, if you watch the work, uncalled for and unscietific preference to road width over pavement is visible. Sample some pictures.

Trying to make bus interchange easier - work at Marathahalli

silkboard - 17-AUG-2009

Somewhat in line with these past posts (hardships of changing bus, underpass design), I notice attempts to improve pedestrian facilities around airport road/ORR interchange at Marathahalli.

Plan for ORR and marathalli junction

Subodh - 10-MAY-2009

Hi,

Does anyone know plan on how ORR - Marathalli junction will be made signal free ? I could not find any post in Praja regarding this.

Recently I noticed that ramp from ORR (when you from KR Puram) to Marathalli bridge is being widened to 4 lanes road (two lanes on each direction).

Regards,
Subodh