:: 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

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

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.

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