Parking attendants need education

Parking attendants need education
By Roopa Rao,DH News Service,Bangalore
The road to the new international airport is usable but a lot of work is still unfinished. Night journeys to BIAL can be a safety hazard to women and children.

The road to the new international airport is usable but a lot of work is still unfinished. Night journeys to BIAL can be a safety hazard to women and children. Some stretches leading to the BIA are too lonely for comfort. At least road lighting from city to airport segment of NH7 must be taken up on priority. Once you reach the trumpet flyover, things are fine. The lighting is good and the road is a dream to drive on. The brightly lit stretch to the airport building is quite impressive.
The first impression of the airport is fine. The control tower looks striking. Every Bangalorean has been waiting for that first sight. The huge areas allocated for parking gladden the heart. However, actually pulling into a slot to park can be tricky. The majority population is taxi drivers and they are in a tearing hurry to park first. The parking attendants need to be educated a little more to guide people properly. They think all parking ills can be sorted out in P4 and wave their hands towards the exit… so you look for P4 and head towards the exit and after a kilometre or more, realise that you actually want to go into the parking area and not back on NH7. It is back to the parking lot and the quest for an empty slot to pull into
continues.
Perhaps the best way to commute would be the public transport. There were a number of Volvo buses, Suvarna Karnataka vehicles parked in the bus bay. One guy was shouting 'Whitefield, Whitefield' quite like the way it is done in Kalasipalyam bus stand.
The arrival area is quite spacious and more importantly, even past midnight you have a choice of foods and drinks - chaats, short eats, veg and non-veg stuff, all available outside the building. There is still no seating arrangement for those who prefer to wait outside but will perhaps be put in place soon.

Dirty toilets

Toilets are another story. There was no water in the taps; the flush wasn't working in many and almost all were dirty. The toilet paper holders were empty! Not a single one had paper that could be used. The bins were not emptied. Not a good advertisement for an 'international' effort! Clean toilets can wipe out some discomfort.
Another thing is the ‘Arrival' announcement boards could have been bigger and more prominent. Those who used Mumbai international airport were quite impressed by Bengaluru though they could not pronounce it
properly.