Traffic Engineering Cell News Today

The recent rainfall has highlighted the city’s inadequate infrastructure. Below are the key issues plaguing the City’s infrastructure and the potential solutions proposed by the CM.

The BBMP has been issuing short term tender notifications since October 2022 for installation of smart solution, operation, and maintenance of the multi-level parking facility on a revenue sharing basis but no contractor evinced interest to participate in bidding.

The renovation of the 75 junctions was announced in the Karnataka Budget 2023-2024. The project is being implemented by BBMP and Bengaluru Traffic Police with WRI India as the knowledge partner under the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS).

It was after the recent accident near Metro Cash and Carry that residents of the area approached the officials. Residents had submitted a list of 27 locations in Kanakapura Main Road needing rumbler strips and 25 locations needing HRPC to traffic officials too to make it easier for pedestrians to cross the road.

Pulikeshi Nagar Residents Welfare Association (PNRWA) president Abdul Shakeeb said that the association raised a number of other issues, including the encroachment of footpaths by vendors, hindering pedestrians from using the walkways. ​

Here is the feedback: This skywalk is highly unusable for senior citizens and women. They complain that they feel dizziness while climbing or descending the stairs. The problem with the skywalk is that there are gaps between mild steel (MS) sections of the steps resulting in a sense of dizziness to senior citizens.

BBMP had called for eight tenders before deciding to hand them over to the TEC departments under the Road and Infrastructure dept

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