Wednesday, May 20, 2009

What Bangalore needs

I have noticed 
a lot of things going wrong in this new IT city.  One thing that requires urgent attention is what I am going to discuss in this post. In the previous times it was not so crowded and not that expensive. There were only few manufacturing companies at one end of the town. Road weren’t as congested as they are at this point of time.

Now things have changed big time, traffic has grown exponentially throughout the city. People are moving in hundreds of numbers. New shops and restaurants are being setup at each corner now. With this in mind public transport services has also increased. The need for flyovers has gone up and in some places it has been taken care of and in some places it is been carried out.
But the main problem arises on the traffic signal. Many traffic signals do not have timer indicator. With good intentions people turn off the engines on a traffic signal. When it turns green there will be atleast one vehicle which will struggle to start. The result is other vehicles getting stuck behind it and lower utilization of time allotted for the vehicles to pass.

Clearly the presence of timers at various places can reduce this from happening plus this can also help in controlling the impatient traveler who is waiting for the signal to turn green.