Thursday, February 18, 2010

An idea can change your life (in Bangalore!!)

What could be one big changed experience, that a Bangalorean wish for?
More gardens ? Cauvery water to every house? Pollution and dust free air?
More than these, it is traffic.
The roads in Bangalore are mostly 80Feet and some are 100 feet. The flat landscape makes the drive a good experience in Bangalore if the roads are empty. Most of the busy roads have congested because of the vehicles parked on the sides of the road and bus commuters waiting for the BMTC on the road and each road having one such bus stop for every half a kilometer.
Within the city we have highest number of intersections and traffic signals. Sometimes, it is one intersection or a cross road for every 100 meters within the city..!!! Most of the times a drivers' (riders') challenge is to wait at every such signals for 3 minutes for the green signals and it takes a limping pain and a saint's perseverance to cross a short distance of 3 kilometers.
An idea of synchronising the traffic signals of entire city could result in a changed experience which I mentioned above, for every Bangalorean..!!
  • Identification of every traffic signals
  • number of intersections on the busy roads
  • number of vehicles per minute on the road,
  • direction mapping to joints to major roads, sector basis
  • Synchronisation of traffic signals to the assigned directions based on the above aspects!! (All green lights at all signals to one direction in the entire stretch of the road at the same time and vice versa based on the directions and major connections)

This might require the pedestrians to be little cautious than now, but will ease the travel time, travel experience for drivers and riders substantially. We can't teach ourselves a road discipline, but can we learn that from digitally controlled, changed traffic lights ???.. A food for thought for our elected representatives..& IT companies and all of us??

1 comment:

  1. well... the town planners and the so called leaders of ours have long forgotten the basics of amodern day city planning.
    Bangalore is built on the assumption of River Cavery can supply unlimitted quantity of water that is needed for the mindless planning these people have.
    God help Bangalorean...

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