:: Bangalore City Traffic Infrastructure ::
In order to de-congest traffic in Bangalore City the Government has constructed the following Fly-overs and construction work still going on some junctions. The following table gives the picture of construction, under construction and proposed Fly-over / Grade Separator.
1.
Under Construction Fly-overs / Grade Separators
| Sl.No
|
Name
of the Road |
| 01 |
Metro Rail construction
works |
| 02 |
Malleshwaram
underpass |
| 03 |
Bellary Road
(International Airport Road) |
| 04 |
Yeshwanthpur
grade separator |
| 05 |
Magadi Road
underpass |
| 06 |
New works by
BBMP (International Airport Road) |
2. Automated Signal Lights
Bangalore
City had 178 Automated Signal Lights and 06 Manual
Signal Lights. Recently 52 new Solar Powered Automated
Signal Lights are being installed. Out of these
52 Solar Powered Signal Lights, 30 are Vehicle
Actuated.
3. Automated Enforcement Center
A new system of enforcement called Automated Enforcement has been introduced in Bangalore City. This involves the constabulary noting down the numbers of the offending vehicles and passing the information to the Automation Enforcement Center equipped with computers, software and vehicle database provided by the M.V Department. Based on this, computerized challans are generated U/s 133 of M.V. Act, which are sent by post to the offender. The repeated offenders will be noted by the system and their licences will be noted
by the system and their licences will be proposed for suspension / cancellation. This system has already shown its effect in the sense that people are feeling the deterrence of traffic law.
Collected
Fine
| Year |
M.V.Act
Fine |
K.P.Act
Fine |
Towing
Charges |
Total
Fine Collected |
| 2001 |
116008700 |
215360 |
18407950 |
134632010 |
| 2002 |
119054293 |
523709 |
14756950 |
134334952 |
| 2003 |
125417865 |
435299 |
13357550 |
139210714 |
| 2004 |
120154600 |
406325 |
4352400 |
124913325 |
| 2005 |
182631240 |
360250 |
12546900 |
195538390 |
| 2006 |
188434665 |
303550 |
17751200 |
206489415 |
| 2007 |
182018650 |
258570 |
10776000 |
193053220 |
4. State of Art Alcometers
One of the major cause of road accident is Drunken Driving. In order to book Drunken Driving, State of Art Alcometers was purchased first time in the year 2001 and subsequently in the year 2004. Campaigns about Drunken Driving were frequently organized in co-ordination with BATF, SASP, GRSP and NIMHANS. The following table illustrates number of cases booked against Drunken Drivers.
5. Laser Based Speed Vision
Over
Speeding is one of the main causative factor for
road accident. In order to check over speeding
Laser Based Speed Vision were purchased during
the year 2004. These equipments are very much
helpful in booking violators of Speed limit.
| Year |
Cases
booked |
| 2005 |
3128 |
| 2006 |
4574 |
| 2007 |
5607 |
6.
Studies on Traffic Management
Bangalore City Traffic Police took the help of Traffic Experts and Traffic Engineers in conducting survey and studies in different locality to prepare plan for better traffic management.
The following projects were initiated:
• Central Area Traffic Management Plan
• Local Area Traffic Management Plan for Indiranagar
• Hosur Road Traffic Management Plan
• Richmond Town & Long ford Town Area Traffic Management Plan
• Richards Town Traffic Management Plan
These plans were prepared by Traffic Experts and the recommendations were implementing in phased manner.
7. One-Ways in Bangalore City
Increases in volume of traffic has led to traffic
jams and congestion on most of the roads in Bangalore
City. Since widening of roads is not possible
in near future, one solution for de congestion
is convert high density roads into one-way. In
last 30 years about 260 roads have been converted
into one-ways.
Some of the important roads which are converted into one-ways are:
1. J.C.Road
2. Kempegowda Road
3. N.R.Road
4. S.J.Park Road
5. R.R.M.R. Road
6. Sheshadri Road
7. Nrupathunga Road
8. Rajbhavan Road
9. Infantry Road
10. Queen's Road
11. Cunnighaum Road
12. Millers Road
13. Commercial Street
14. Brigade Road
15. Avenue Road
16. Old Madras Road
17. Richmond Road
18. Residency Road
19. Victoria Road |