ABIDe's suggestion to decongest City

ABIDe's suggestion to decongest City
Bangalore, DHNS:
The Agenda for Bangalore Infrastructure Development (ABIDe) is all set to submit its report, containing recommendations to improve Bangalore's traffic situation, to the State government.


ABIDe expert member Prof M N Sreehari, who has prepared a list of 32 suggestions, will submit the report in a couple of weeks.

Sreehari told Deccan Herald, “The CM constituted ABIDe to advise and guide the government on taking steps to improve the worsening condition of the City roads. He wanted us to show visible improvements on the roads within 100 days.”

Some of the suggestions include creating separate bus lanes along the main bus routes, in addition to exploring the possibility of providing separate two metre wide lanes for two-wheelers/cycles, creating a one-km stretch model road with all standards, implementing a policy decision to regulate the growth of vehicles (as almost 3.5 lakh new vehicles are added every year), introduction of more mass transport buses within the radius of five kms of the city (with Vidhana Soudha as the focal point) so as to curb individual transport system in such areas, by prohibiting them or discouraging them by imposing congestion tax. The levying of congestion tax is in practice in Singapore.

Some of the other suggestions include the construction of peripheral roads and more ring roads, connecting and using existing rail corridors with electric multiple units (EMUs), going in for adequate and proper sign and signages, bringing transparency and accountability in the work performance carried out by authorities, constructing mini flyovers or passovers when two major or arterial facilities cross each other, removing bottlenecks en route and exploring remedies to black spots, plying of mini buses along crowded and congested roads (instead of operating regular buses) and accident data collection, retrieving and analysing the same for predicting and monitoring accidents, using a database management system.