3 corridors to ease traffic

3 corridors to ease traffic
BY AMIT S. UPADHYE
BENGALURU







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I BMLTA plans pilot project for major roads I The stretch between Yeshwanthpur and Peenya has three bus stops which occupies a lane on National Highway No-4. This leaves just one lane for other vehicles
With the number of vehicles on the city roads increasing by the day, managing traffic has become a major hurdle. The delay in starting work on projects to ease the traffic congestion, has also proved to be an obstacle in the smooth flow of traffic.

The Bangalore Metropolitan Land Transport Authority (BMLTA) will now take up corridor improvements to streamline vehicular movement.

As a pilot project, three traffic corridors — Yeshwanthpur-Dasarahalli Road, Bannerghatta Road-Silk Board junction and KR Puram-Benniganahalli jun ction will be altered.

“All the three corridors have various traffic related problems and need to be addressed with measures like altering road engineering and shifting some structures which have been roadblocks for many years. We have outsourced the traffic assessment study to a private company,” a senior official from BMLTA, told Deccan Chronicle.

The stretch between Yeshwanthpur and Peenya has three bus stops which occupies a lane on National Highway No-4. This leaves just one lane for other vehicles. “Infrastructure work will continue here for the next two years until the elevated highway is completed. Apart from this, the road widening work is also leaving no space for traffic movement especially during peak hours. Since the road acts as a connecting point for the 22 districts of the state, three bus bays have been planned on the stretch near Peenya and Dasarahalli,” officials said.

Similarly, the corridor between Silk Board junction and Bannerghatta Road has a large volume of twowheeler and four-wheelers heading for Whitefield or Electronic City.

“People from the whole of south Bengaluru use the same corridor and there is a need for smaller alterations in the road engineering along this corridor,” the officials added.

A big hurdle on the corridor from KR Puram — a railway booking office which was expected to come up close to the road — has now been shifted to an alternative location. “The BDA has already allotted land and road widening at several points have been suggested to reduce traffic jams,” the officials added.

On Tuesday, BMLTA officials and members from other government departments will hold a meeting to discuss several issues including the area development programme under which the decongestion of Majestic bus stand has been proposed.