Posts : Road design

The Discarded Median Innovation as applicable to town planning

psaram42 - 3-SEP-2012

Whenever there is a requirement for a new road in the outskirts of a city, instead of building one dual way road, separated by a median, build new or modify existing two roads separated by a wide enough usable land as a pair of two one ways. These roads need to be barricaded, so that free NMVT access to roads is denied, except at the Bus Stations.

Improving traffic flow on Residency Rd

Transmogrifier - 24-JUN-2011

The issue of traffic management in general and road-widening in particular touches on a particularly raw nerve for most of us. That the issue polarizes most, is evident even from recent discussions right here on Praja.

A praja face to face meet at Vittal Mallya Road June 12, 2010

psaram42 - 12-JUN-2010

I, Mr. KV Pathy and Mr. Janardanam arrived at the Vittal Mallya road at about 8:30 AM to day as scheduled. We were later joined by Dr. Srinath Heragu. We started our tour of the road from the kasturba road end of the Vittal Mallya Road.

Monthly Face to Face meeting, june 2010

psaram42 - 5-JUN-2010

 

Venue : Remodeled Vittal Mallya Road

 

Date : 12 June 2010

Start: 8:00 AM

End:   9:00 AM

 

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.