The Hindu : Expert suggests intermediate ring road in City

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Friday, Aug 02, 2002

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Southern States - Karnataka-Bangalore

Expert suggests intermediate ring road in City

By Our Special Correspondent

Bangalore Aug. 1. Developing an "intermediate ring road" and high capacity traffic corridors between it and the Inner Ring Road can be possible solutions to traffic problems of the City, according to an expert.

N.S.Srinivasan, Technical Advisor to KRDCL, who also heads the Transport Advisory Forum, a private body, told The Hindu that the system of ring roads for the City had been planned on the basis of comprehensive traffic and transportation studies.

"The Outer Ring Road has been formed solely on the basis of projected volume of traffic rather than immediate needs.

From the point of view of future growth, the Intermediate Ring Road has the potential of carrying a large volume of traffic," Dr. Srinivasan said.

According to the report prepared by him, the Intermediate Ring Road encircles or passes by the side of most of the developed areas of the City, besides providing direct access from all major as well as minor radial or arterial roads. From the point of view of volume and density of present and future traffic needs, the Inner Ring Road has to bear the brunt of traffic, compared with other ring roads.

The Inner Ring Road is projected to pass through Seshadri Road, Palace Road, Sankey Road, Rajbhavan Road, Cubbon Road, Dickenson Road, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Richmond Road, Hosur Road, Dr. Mari Gowda Road, Lalbagh Fort Road, Puttanna Chetty Road, Kempapura Agrahara Tank Road, Magadi Road, and Platform Road.

The report gives details of the volume of traffic entering and leaving the Inner Ring Corridor and Intermediate Cordon during morning and evening peak hours.

It shows that traffic volumes at the Inner Ring Road are 60 to 80 per cent higher than at the intermediate cordon and this amount of additional traffic is generated from the area between the inner and intermediate corridors.

It is estimated that the inbound and the outbound traffic in the Inner Ring Road corridor is 75,000 to 1,70,000 passenger car units (PCU) a day.

This trend of traffic is not considered desirable for proper growth of the City. "The aim of planning and development of a road network for the City should be that non-destine traffic to the city centre should be made to bypass the city core and also that the depth of penetration of destined traffic to the core city minimised," Dr. Srinivasan said.

In this context, the Inner Ring Road will play an important role and it should be supplemented by an Intermediate Ring Road and radial arterial roads.

One use of an intermediate ring road would be that vehicles could reach roads on the outskirts of the City like Hosure Road in an easier manner.

Instances such as a car having to go through Mahatma Gandhi Road and Brigade Road to reach Hosur Road can be avoided.

For the efficient and even distribution of heavy volume of traffic, it is necessary to develop the Inner Ring Road and Intermediate Ring Road into "high capacity corridors" along with improvement of radial corridors.

Dr. Srinivasan has suggested that developing these should be given priority. At the same time, the authorities should contain the traffic within the Inner Ring Road through traffic management and restriction and land use control.

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