Traffic in Bangalore-1

Finally I decided to write it down... I feel it everyday, I talk to myself while driving to my office, I curse the BMP officers when I am stuck in the snailing traffic in evenings. I dont curse them because they are are not doing anything, I do so because there are simple solutions available and they never even think of it.

I use outer ring road to travel to my office (20 kms) from near Hebbal to around 1 km ahead of Marthahalli. It takes me nothing less than 60 mins everyday. Simple maths tells that my average speed is about 20 km/h. Thats exactly true for anyone who is traveling on the same route. Let me come straight to the point now... Following are the suggestions (or rather common sense) I have:

1. On free section of road, trucks commute at very slow speed in all the lanes. Can't we make the truckers follow the rule?? Drive on the left ALWAYS !!!!!!!

2. Remove all the red-lights from the outer ring road. Yes, I am not joking... It is very much possible. Outer ring road is wide enough to provide U-Turns at a distance of every 2 kms or so. So, for people who want to join Ring road, there will be NO-RIGHT-TURN. Join the ring road by taking the left and then take U-Turn if you wanted to go right. It works.... I (read people) would like to travel a couple of kms more than waiting for 10 mins in the red light. This will also make sure that there is no traffic block on the Ring Road. We can achieve avg speed of 40+ km/h if we can do a simple thing like this.

3. Why do we still have all the right and left turns at 90 degrees. Lets send all these 90 degree civil engineers on sabbatical for a couple of years and correct all these.

Well, there must be many more suggestions with each one of us who travel in Bangalore. The above few are the ones which does not need a lot of investment, but can definitely change the way we travel.

I know it takes 2 years to make one underpass near cantolment railway station, still I hope some BMP official will read this (do they read blogs..lol) and do something about it.