2. Technology being implemented Rapidly
Police force listening to citizens
Citizens becoming proactive
3. The country is not all about 4 wheelers
We have to deal with animals on the road
The roads in the city are age old and were
planned for a different era
We deal with an emotional population and
not a rational one
People take to the streets for anything and
everything
4. Corruption
Varying differences between the Haves and
the Have nots
Everyone is not literate
Lack of accountability
5. Identifying the culprits and fixing them one at
a time is the logical way to do
We cannot fix everything. Lack of funds and
support would disable most of the initiatives
Identify a 3-5 year plan and work towards the
goal, with citizens knowing what is going to
change each year
6. Lack of Badly designed
Adequate flyovers , grade
Parking separators
Vehicle Density Poor Quality
exceeding Road construction of
design limits Roads
Unreliable
People not
Public
following rules
Transport
Lack of
Metro &
Coordination
Flyovers
between Civic
construction
Agencies
Small Roads
Traffic Same solution
does not work
Issues everywhere
7. Observation Challenges
Most of the Roads in Bangalore City are Widening all roads is out of the question.
Small and old and border houses and
establishments
•What can be done is people not encroach and allow enough space
for vehicular traffic to navigate freely. We all park in front of our
houses, but do it in a neat and regulated manner. Uniform park for
more efficiency.
•Move street vendors to side roads
•Do not allow autos to park wherever they want
8. Observation Challenges
•Any additional infrastructure Entrusted parties do not meet deadlines
development brings in issues. and get away scot free
•Roads underneath metro constructions Road conditions for motorists are terrible
are in a very pathetic state Pedestrians are forgotten in the zeal to
•Alternate paths are just not viable development
•People should not suffer so much for the sake of development.
When entrusted parties fail to meet deadlines they must be
penalized very heavily.
•Government should assist in land reallocation. Pay 3-5% more than
the market price, and meet the project deadlines, the government
will still make a profit.
•Pedestrian walkways must be provided near these constructions
•Roads underneath the constructions should be tarred and fixed
periodically
9. Observation Challenges
• Rules are flouted We all have got used to a system where
• People get away with Fines we can get away
• People will not go pay at the court as it Violators are rude, use political clout and
takes time use very bad behavior
Corruption has added to the woes
•Rules are meant to be followed. After a repeat violation, the
violator must be forced to go to a judge and explain the violation.
Special traffic courts should be set up to fast track these cases.
•Drunk drivers should be arrested on the spot.
•Red light violators must pay hefty fines
•Use of political clout must be avoided. Our leaders have to start this
at their end and should not encourage any police officer to look the
other way
•Police officers must be paid better salaries and provided with better
gear. This could lower corruption.
10. Observation Challenges
There are at least 300 new vehicles People have the money to buy new
entering the roads every day automobiles
Old vehicles do not get phased out People need new automobiles for their
New roads cannot be built comfort
Government gets lot of revenue in road
tax
•As much as driving on the road with a vehicle as my choice is a right, One
cannot drive if the vehicles are so many that the roads cannot handle.
•Simple solution is to limit the vehicular use to 3 -4 days a week with a
special sticker
•e.g. an innova should not be seen on the roads on a Wednesday ,Similarly,
all Maruti swifts should be rested on a Tuesday…
11. Observation Challenges
There are more vehicles to park than Limited parking spaces create this issue.
parking slots More purchasing power has led to people
Double parking, illegal parking, using more 4 wheelers which take more
encroachments occur continually space
There are very few clean and neat
parking structures in the city
•Encourage the build of large parking lots and feeder buses must be
provided from the parking lot to a range of areas.
•New buildings should adhere to provide parking to all employees, tenants.
•Existing buildings should be provided a timeframe to provide parking to
tenants.
•Encourage parking meters, and automated parking machines and get rid
of middlemen
12. Observation Challenges
If one were to see the Sadhashivnagar It is public money that is used, but our
magicbox design, it would be enough said representatives are too busy to inspect
here… the quality
Poor design and poor and shoddy quality We work with a mode of fix the mess and
of work has led to poor grade separators not find a holistic solution to the whole
and flyovers with gaping holes and problem, so bottlenecks just move from
illogical route planning leading to people point a to point b (e.g .. Mekhri circle)
violating traffic rules
•All new grade separators and flyovers must be designed with quality in
mind.
•Traffic police should give a certificate of operation and should renew it
periodically.
•Illogical designs like the one at Sadhashivnagar should be scrapped and
reworked and the design engineers should be blacklisted
13. Poor Quality and Construction of Roads
Roads
Observation Challenges
Roads are very poor in most parts of We cannot concrete all roads
Bangalore with pot holes, gaping holes, There is no inspection during the
broken foot paths and also people construction of roads
throwing trash, construction work on the Invariably civic agencies end up digging
roads. roads once they have been fixed
Most roads are quality deficient
•Create an internal nodal agency responsible for the upkeep of quality of
roads.
•The Agency should be a task force comprising of BTP, BWSSB,BESCOM,
BMP
•The sole purpose of this group should be to ensure coordination between
civic agencies and ensure – awareness , completion of projects and quality
control of the projects
14. Un reliable Public Transit
Roads
Observation Challenges
As in most parts of the country, Buses are a major consumer of the roads
Bangalore’s traffic woes are and enhancing more routes will choke the
compounded due to a unreliable public roads.
transit system. Rickshaw drivers are human too and no
No guarantees that you will get a point in blaming them for the chaos.
rickshaw on a particular day or your bus Metro is deeply delayed due to whatever
will be on time. reasons they can claim
Explore feeder routes of autos by creating point to point autos.
Encourage auto sharing and auto pooling like car pooling.
Bangalore’s peripheral railway route should be exploited with local trains
and the point to point autos/bus stations should originate here.
The goal is the public should have a reliable alternative transit model and at
the same time should be able to save money.
15. Lack of Coordination between Civic Agencies
Observation Challenges
BMP maintains roads, while BWSSB, No central agency to monitor the upkeep
BESCOM, Telephones and others can lay of roads
pipes and cables at will. All activities are equally important
•Create a central agency to monitor the work
•Provide agencies a month in a year to do their work in a locality and finish
it on time.
• Ensure people are aware of road closures in advance and create
awareness.
16. Same solution does not work everywhere
Observation Challenges
There is no single solution to fix all the Our mindset has to change only then
issues there will be an impact
•Make it mandatory to teach children of learner’s license age in the school a
significant number hours on driving safe. Without this certificate, RTO
should refuse to give a Learners Permit.
•Create special traffic courts to pay fines and do not collect on the spot
fines. Inconvenience the offenders so they will get careful
•For people who do not visit the courts and avoid, triple the fine and seize
the vehicle for a period of 15- 3o days
•Enhance fines 3-4 times, only if you feel the pinch you will not repeat it
•Multiple offenders, cancel the license and they should take a test to get it
again
17. Fixing the traffic scenario in Bangalore is not just the work of
government, Traffic police or the various agencies. It involves
everyone of us.
Things will not change overnight, however a few model
areas can be chosen to enforce a few different laws and rules
and successes could be translated to other areas.
Driving in Bangalore should be a pleasure and other cities in
India should follow our example
Government, Traffic police and public should coordinate in
this effort to make this successful.
The role of the traffic police should be to monitor and
maintain and it is everyone’s responsibility to assist them in
this effort.
