Grid-wise roads mooted

Grid-wise roads mooted
Deccan Herald

Main aim of this new system of roads implemented successfully in some parts of the country is to decongest the centre of the City.

The Draft Master Plan 2015 for Bangalore, the revised Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) unveiled by the Bangalore Development Authority, moots a grid-wise development of roads across the City.

The grid system of smaller roads is aimed at decongesting some of the traffic from the five major radial roads and the four concentric ring roads that form the major connectivity networks of the City.

With this, there will be ‘blocks’ that the City is divided into based on intersection points of any of the ring roads with any of the radial roads. “The grid pattern is superimposed on the ring roads and radials. In each block, between these roads, there will be a network of minor urban roads, all of them 9 to 12 metres wide. This is the third level of road networking, to supplement the arterial roads and to decongest the centre of the City,” explained an official from SCE-Creocean (India) Private Ltd, the company that developed the CDP for Bangalore Development Authority.

A team from the company visited Ahmedabad on studying development of roads in that city, where it found that instead of the local authority acquiring land from residents, a different system of land-pooling was adopted.

“Development based on the land-pooling system has been suggested for all micro-level plans, where residents themselves pool in some of their land to develop it, so that the rest of their land lies on a developed stretch. But that system has been successful only in Ahmedabad so far,” said an official.