Even new infrastructure setups are failing recently, this can be attributed to lack of proper analysis and planning. For eg. Cauvery circle UnderPass. Eventhough it has become signal free junction, outbound vehicles speed are tend to decrease their speeds nearly to zero at the U-turn. This results in high vehicle density at this junction. All in all, I would recommend planning authorities should consider not only signal free junction, but consider mainly on reducing the traffic density at a point at any given time. In this case, there could've been a 2-way, underpass dedicated to outbound and inbound vehicles on Bellary Road rather on Bhashyam Circle road.
I am not surprised at all that so many people die on the roads of Bangalore. It is the most lawless city as for as traffic laws are concerned. I drive everyday on the roads of Bangalore and I have not seen such reckless drivers anywhere else and I have seen a lot of places. Somehow, Bangaloreans have developed a very pathetic and a callous attitude towards the traffic rules. This bad driving habit has now gotten into that human pathology of Bangaloreans and I am not sure if there is ever a solution at all. Trust me, the days are not very off when more than 100 will die on the roads every single day.
In bangalore, even a local begger has become lakhpati because his house value has gone many times. Now he wants the city back in stone age. What a hypocisy???
There are very few cities in the world that are planned and constructed like one in India, Chandigarh. otherwise all cities are grown on their own with whatever facility available. However they all have improved based on the political will, industrial growth and so on.
But Bangalore?
For Bangalore, it has few Bast*rd politicians who used to hamper all plans of development.
During CM Krishna's rule, govt and private co's used to co-operate and several developments witnessed speedy progress. Krihna had given that much freedom and opportunity to do so. That's why even today people of Bangalore remembers Krishna & Infosys's Dr.NRN as the modern architects of Bangalore.
After krishna's govt, Bangalore's growth completely hampered. Even Dr.NRN had to undergone a worst treatment by some of the third class politicians for his selfless contributions, he resigned from the post of chairman of Airport board. Then Devegowda opposed the METRO, still its in baby craddle. This enthrated DG has also opposed monorail.
Karnataka's worst fate is that, it has none Good politician who can darely ask center to do something for infrastructure. As it is center's politicians are biased, they are trying day/night to avoid many projects to Bangalore.
Another major factor is that, Karnataka people mostly elected different party for center and state. Adding to all these, Karnataka people are soft in nature, they have less fighting nature compared to others. They do not stress more
RE:Small price to pay for progress
by on Feb 22, 2008 03:19 AM Permalink
I'm sorry to say that you are giving an impression that you've not visited BD or Pak ever. If you have seen them yourself, than i must say that you are lying to all the readers in this forum. Those two countries are way much poor than us, but one thing for sure that they have freeways, and their roads are much wider with lane-systems just like US and other european countries. Now you must wonder that if India is growing, which is 100% true, is it really growing in a planned way, the way it should? Or, it is just that lots of private and public companies are growing and making huge money, which we are falsely interpreting as the whole contry's growth! Think about it. May be it is time to ask the respective state govts if they have any city/town planning, and if so what kind of expertise they have in that, and what kind of projection they base their infrastructure on? Is it based on a projected growth of the population for the next 20/50yrs or just the next 2/3yrs? One should make a trip to US and see how they build new cities. Initially, they lay the roads/surface streets, and have the major roads connected to the freeways which runs through the city and then connects to other cities. The whole city is then divided into blocks into which residential and commercial buildings come up based on zones. Are our planners in B'lore really thinking that way? From my travel in India, atleast the planners of Chandigarh, Gurgaon in Delhi, New Town(New Kolkata) in Kolkata, Vizag in A
i know lot of my friends, including some local Bangaloreans who are fed up of the city. This city was not meant to be a big commercial city, but a more nice, peaceful retirement city. You cannot force the B'lore to be something which it was not meant to be. Some of my friends are already looking beyond B'lore, and many of them are already buying places in Chennai, Gurgaon, Kolkata as a safe keep to move into those cities as Bangalore is getting ready to burst out. No parents would like their kids suffer from asthma which is becoming a common household problem there! The media hype and all the brouhaha of forcing this city into becoming the next Silicon valley has become the sole reason for killing this city and all the unhappiness in the Bangalorean's lives.
RE:B'lore should go back to becoming the Garden city again
by Gowda on Feb 22, 2008 02:28 AM Permalink
yes.. am also 1 in that list. am fed of bangalore's progress !!! (did i say progress, its actually fall of bangalore). God Save this city ! We want our old bangalore THE GARDEN city back
Why should u write specific columns only about Karnataka/Bangalore ? Just bcoz more no. of people get interested, more debates on the discussion board and lot of people click ur links... this increasing no. of hits in the website ? Cheap strategy.
Accidents happen in every city. Does Rediff have comparative numbers for all the cities ? Useless and jobless reporters.
RE:Why only Bangalore
by Rakesh Narayan on Feb 22, 2008 01:27 AM Permalink
Raghu your points though passionate and true contradict themselves.
Why should u write specific columns only about Karnataka/Bangalore ? Just bcoz more no. of people get interested, more debates on the discussion board and lot of people click ur links... this increasing no. of hits in the website ? -> This way, Rediff is heading for closure soon.
If they are catering to the consumer they will get what they want. Throw Journalistic integrity out of the window. Today its all about numbers in every profession. By hook or crook give me success. Damn even research labs all over the world are working on that philosophy. Forget rediff, its really embarassing when a company that was as innovative as IBM was, shuns invention for implementation.
RE:Why only Bangalore
by Seenu Subbu on Feb 22, 2008 02:39 AM Permalink
Are you crazy? Accidents have ruined families, and almost every family has one loss to recall, or one major injury that changes course of lives. In no other part of the world does avoidable accidents play such fatal part of life. For all the so called educated "Silicon Valley of India" residents, they sure cannot follow traffic rules and sure cannot cope with the burgeoning number of vehicles. It's a genuine situation, and requires genuine attention and care. Your false pride will not change the tag Bangalore already has, of a failing city. I am from Bangalore, and I have friends and family members that are either gone or have suffered unbearable losses due to vehicular accidents.
RE:Why only Bangalore
by Raju on Feb 22, 2008 05:27 AM Permalink
have u been to a place called kaggadasapura in bangalore. its got the best roads in the city. every city should try to emulate the example of kaggadasapura. kaggadasapura rocks man
The concept of concentrated cities is growing old. With todays advancement in communications technology this kind of chaotic mass inflow into the city can be avoided. Infrastructure should be built for intra territory connectivity like national corridors,railways etc. We need to rethink our strategies, the fundamental model of the next world is decentralized infrastructure and India is at a right point in time to really decentralize. I hope some planner takes a note of this. The focus should be to pull people out from cities and not build crappy structures into and already congested space
RE:Whey don't companies move infrastructure out from bangalore and go to other remote places
by Rakesh Narayan on Feb 22, 2008 01:33 AM Permalink
I felt that pain right in 2000, when it was shocking to see every company queue up for the tiniest piece of land anywhere in a radius of 100 miles of that hallowed city. If instead of doing that wed had 100 cities benefitting, every state would have had an opportunity to employ their own, not only in the high tech industry but also manpower based ones. Its funny a country that has socialist leaders failed to understand that its their job to ensure a worker in Bihar should have the same opportunity as someone in Karnataka or Maharashtra. Hopefully we learn from this and have a great tomorrow where we dont need our children to be desperate to get into the high tech industry as that would be the only ways to have a decent lifestyle.
Why is Rediff posting this article? This is a pretty old one and everybody knows why the accident rate has gone up. The Government should take proper measures to control the traffic and build infrastructure. Every person who works need to go to office, every student has to go to colleges and schools. Common people cant solve this problem. This is Government's problem, they have to deal with it and make things easier for common public. Unfortunately our Government is always sleeping, tax money goes to the politicians who just enjoy their lives at commoner's expense.
RE:Accident rate in Blore
by Seenu Subbu on Feb 22, 2008 02:45 AM Permalink
Common people go berserk when it comes to following simple traffic rules. Common people are willing to bribe RTO officials for drivers licenses after failing driving tests. Common people are willing to drive on designated one-ways, in the wrong direction, when they think there are no traffic cops around. Common people make uncommonly stupid mistakes and die on the streets, or kill innocents. It's not necessarily a Government problem, because these common people are so called educated ones who can read traffic signs and can imbibe some common sense. Why should Rediff post this article? Because there are thousands of people dying on streets due to mistakes of others, and perhaps their own. Until one suffers a loss in their own household or friends' circle, it never affects their consciousness.
RE:Accident rate in Blore
by AK on Feb 22, 2008 12:03 AM Permalink
tax money is goiong to gowda family for reinvesting in real estate, probbaly they started analysis of makng a new airport in mysore area, in the comming election, no one willg et majority again congress will support gowda and revanna become new chief minister and again they will start their business
