bengaluru traffic Citizen Matters, Bengaluru

Nine pointers to ensure Bengaluru’s upcoming bus lanes are a success

October 13, 2019 Sonal Kulkarni

Bengaluru is soon to get dedicated bus lanes that are intended to make commute easy for bus users. But will the project succeed amidst the city’s chaotic traffic? Here are nine pointers to ensure it does

Panathur road: Where traffic jams never end, even at midnight

August 27, 2019 Neeraj

It takes hours to cross Panathur road, a 6-km ‘shortcut’ connecting ORR with ITPL. At several stretches here, two cars can’t pass by at the same time. Yet, huge apartments are approved along this road, and restricted heavy vehicles allowed to ply

Are cases of wrong-side driving increasing on Bengaluru’s roads?

August 15, 2019 Kedar Koushik

Melissa Arulappan recently counted 13 bikers driving on the wrong side on a one-way street, all within two seconds. This is not a one-off incident. Citizens across Bengaluru have been noticing an increasing number of such violations in the recent past. What’s going on?

Residential areas illegally commercialised, JP Nagar-ites protest

July 12, 2019 Anand Mangalam

The area around 24th Main road in JP Nagar is to be largely used for residential purposes, as per the city’s Revised Master Plan (RMP 2015). But illegal commercialisation, and that too without adequate parking facilities, has made life here a nightmare for residents

Bengaluru Buzz: Bike taxis may become legal | Property registration moves online | TenderSURE work to restart in January

November 17, 2018 News Desk

Kaveri Online Services aims to cut redtapism. Work on TenderSURE roads could start by January. And you may be able to commute via bike taxis soon. Here’s the news round up from Bengaluru for last week.

Flexible traffic signals can solve congestion

March 21, 2017 Sambhav Chopra

It’s not an uncommon fact anymore that Bengaluru suffers from one of the worst traffic conditions in the whole country, where it can surprisingly take an hour to travel a distance as short as a

Making Chalukya Circle a signal-free junction

September 11, 2015 Sreedhar

Traffic problem at Chalukya Circle is solvable with a few more one-ways that will move faster compared to the traffic-ridden two-ways, says Sreedhar.

Traffic on ORR is likely to worsen. Here’s why!

August 11, 2015 Vaidya R

Vaidya talks about the major traffic jams that citizens of Bengaluru traverse through, and likens the ones on ORR to Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guards the underworld.

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Here’s how K R Puram junction can be de-congested

July 28, 2014 Awase Khirni Syed

Fed up of that big jam near K R Puram junction? Here are some solutions that will really ease the traffic there and make life easy for commuters.