Wednesday, June 4, 2003
Flyovers and road layout
So I ventured out of home yesterday and discovered that both Bannerghatta Circle and Dairy Circle are closed to public due to flyover construction.
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ukj and I were trying to get to Big Bazaar on Hosur road yesterday and what should have been a fifteen minute ride via the above-mentioned circles saw us spend over half an hour running into dead-ends and following diversions through narrow lanes. Basically to get to the section of Hosur Road where Christ College is, the choices are:
1. Get onto Double road at the Lalbagh North gate, onto the flyover to Richmond road, right turn on Laskar Hosur road at the crossing, back all the way to Koramangala, finally right turn into Hosur road.
2. Take the narrow lanes of BTM Layout to the Outer Ring road, get to the Ring road and Hosur road junction ("silk board"), turn left, straight up to the merging of Hosur road with Laskar Hosur road, take the left fork for Hosur road.
Coming back was worse. Since Hosur road at the Ring road crossing is a one-way due to another flyover under construction, we had to take a diversion leading almost half-way to Sarjapur road.
What a pain! Jayanagar and Banashankari seem to be the only places I can get to without too much of a hassle these days. Our roadways are all built wrong. We have main roads running several kilometres at a stretch without a crossing. If something blocks the road, the shortest alternative route is at least two or three times the length.
Even Jayanagar, which has a nice grid layout, is messed up in the 4th block area: there is no way to get from the north-eastern side (1st block) to the south-eastern side (9th block) without going through 4th block. If you want to skip 4th block, you have to go all the way up to Dairy circle and loop back on Bannerghatta road. Consequently, there is always more traffic than there should be around the Jayanagar shopping complex.
Whatever department is responsible for town-planning doesn't seem to be learning from all this yet. Witness the maze that the Sarakki layout area of J. P. Nagar is fast becoming. Anyone here ever been on the road to Puttenahalli?
ukj and I were trying to get to Big Bazaar on Hosur road yesterday and what should have been a fifteen minute ride via the above-mentioned circles saw us spend over half an hour running into dead-ends and following diversions through narrow lanes. Basically to get to the section of Hosur Road where Christ College is, the choices are:1. Get onto Double road at the Lalbagh North gate, onto the flyover to Richmond road, right turn on Laskar Hosur road at the crossing, back all the way to Koramangala, finally right turn into Hosur road.
2. Take the narrow lanes of BTM Layout to the Outer Ring road, get to the Ring road and Hosur road junction ("silk board"), turn left, straight up to the merging of Hosur road with Laskar Hosur road, take the left fork for Hosur road.
Coming back was worse. Since Hosur road at the Ring road crossing is a one-way due to another flyover under construction, we had to take a diversion leading almost half-way to Sarjapur road.
What a pain! Jayanagar and Banashankari seem to be the only places I can get to without too much of a hassle these days. Our roadways are all built wrong. We have main roads running several kilometres at a stretch without a crossing. If something blocks the road, the shortest alternative route is at least two or three times the length.
Even Jayanagar, which has a nice grid layout, is messed up in the 4th block area: there is no way to get from the north-eastern side (1st block) to the south-eastern side (9th block) without going through 4th block. If you want to skip 4th block, you have to go all the way up to Dairy circle and loop back on Bannerghatta road. Consequently, there is always more traffic than there should be around the Jayanagar shopping complex.
Whatever department is responsible for town-planning doesn't seem to be learning from all this yet. Witness the maze that the Sarakki layout area of J. P. Nagar is fast becoming. Anyone here ever been on the road to Puttenahalli?
madhav — Jun 4, 2003 7:48:10 AM — # ↩
I can see a lot of fun ahead...
Kiran Jonnalagadda — Jun 4, 2003 7:58:00 AM — # ↩
If the Whitefield plan is because Sindha needs to be there, I suggest you consider HSR Layout. On one side you'll have the ring road, mostly uninterrupted all the way to Old Madras road (half an hour), and on the other side, you will have just 4-5km to get to Dairy circle (also half an hour).
madhav — Jun 4, 2003 8:25:07 AM — # ↩
Well, thats our long term plan. Whitefield is just for a year or so, when she needs to be close to the baby (2-3 hour feeds in the initial stages, etc). Thanks for the tip.
birdonthewire — Jun 4, 2003 8:05:02 AM — # ↩
ravi — Jun 4, 2003 11:01:01 AM — # ↩
The road networks are designed/planned by the road transportation authority of your state. These are "government" jobs, filled with the usual caste-problems, and reservation and whatever the heck. One requires a heck of a lot of "influence" to become a highway engineer in India etc. too, which basically means its off-limits anyone with any desire to get anything done. Well, its not as impossible as I make it sound, but it really could have been made MUCH easier on folks ...
satyap — Jun 4, 2003 2:09:07 PM — # ↩
Anonymous — Jun 6, 2003 9:58:50 AM — # ↩
they wrote it in JAVA !!