Sir,
The Mysuru Urban Development Authority’s (MUDA) plans to build a new Peripheral Ring Road is indeed a hasty and unreasonable decision (SOM dated Nov. 23, 2022).
There are thousands of roads inside the city and many smaller roads inside layouts which are not properly tarred and they look uneven, muddy, shabby, absolutely unmotorable and even unwalkable too! Another thing to be noted is the bad condition of the pavements, sidewalks which are not at all uniform, particularly in and around markets (Vani Vilas Market). Added to these, we find filth, garbage and unhygienic scene around such densely populated areas.
Under such circumstances, is it not the priority of the Government and other authorities to set right the existing roads and pavements on a war-footing ?
This will simultaneously solve the garbage issue too.
If our Mysuru should become a “Swacha City” once again, let the Government’s priorities be right.
– Kala Chary, Bogadi, 29.11.2022
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Well said.. first they should rectify the current ring road…
On priority the existing roads in the City are to be renewed. Considering traffic, the roads are to be designed using Polymer Modified Bitumen for long lasting benefit or Stone Matrix Asphalt or just go for simple and properly executed Bituminous Concrete.
Prioritising is with the executing agency and governance. Ring roads may come under NATIONAL AGENCY WHERE AS INSIDE MAY COME UNDER STATE JURISIDICTION.
Can someone quantify the usage of current ring road? What’s the utilisation? It won’t be more than 10% for sure. And, what about the lights on the road!!? Forget ring road, let’s look at the state of roads within the city.. there are 3 options for me to reach home (in Srirampura 2nd stage) from the city centre.. none of these 3 approaches have a proper tar road or have controlled parking! Just take a drive from Vivekananda nagar circle and towards Shanti Sagar through M block road, you’ll be driving in the middle of the road with no access to lanes. More reasons for people to go unruly and drive the way they want, drive on the wrong side, park on the middle of the road, etc.. Having a vision for the 2030+ or 2040+ is good. Need to fix the short term issues first..
@Sudheendra
All those materials you mention to show off your theoretical knowledge-typical Indian disease, will be manufactured in India with no quality control in their process.
Back to square one, within months this Ring Road will have pot holes appearing every where. Meanwhile the ministers and officials would have become very rich after pocketing 40% commssion.
This is third world India.
True
Most of roads in all parts of Bangalore are in worst condition, these should be taken on top priority, later for ORR.
@Ramakrishnan
Why are those roads in worst condition? Have you thought about the massive population of Bangalore which is swelling each day, and what it means for the number of vehicles that use those roads?
The problem is two fold .:1. Large number of vehicles, using the road, as Indians are gripped with car culture, and there are billions of Indians residing in that country, and Bangalore gets a good share of them 2. Very poor quality of materials used for the roads and their repair. What do you expect in a country where almost every food is adulterated – starting from milk and edible oils. As a poste said, there is 40% commission for ministers and officials in place, and that means contractors to get profit after paying those hefty bribes, have to use poor quality repair materials.
That is the sad reality in Bangalore, choking with massive population. Massive numbers of IT techie coolies deployed by IT sweatshops like Infosys and Wipro, to carry out cheap coding work for Western IT companies, paid in worthless Indian Rupees, but yet extracting slave labour add to this woes, as most of them use vehicles, thinking that they are so superior!!
Well said exactly what is expected by the government
90 percent of inner roads of Mysore are worst. Travelling through these roads is horrible. Even old people, pregnant women and children are facing lot of hardship to travel. First concerned authorities, political representatives should look into this seriously.
We said, the city has worest roads, the good roads are getting repaired & remodelled again & again.. Ex VV Mohalla post office road. It was Good only, howver the Trinetra circle road is completely spoiled, no one is caring about it. Our politicians & Officials are keen to make videos of Mysore Banglore ExpressHighway, NHAI will take care of it.. I want to challenge them to make a video with test ride with their vehicle from Trinetra circle to Vijaynagar with present condition.
Well said, the city has worest roads, the good roads are getting repaireCommentd & remodelled again & again.. Ex VV Mohalla post office road. It was Good only, howver the Trinetra circle road is completely spoiled, no one is caring about it. Our politicians & Officials are keen to make videos of Mysore Banglore ExpressHighway, NHAI will take care of it.. I want to challenge them to make a video with test ride with their vehicle from Trinetra circle to Vijaynagar with present condition.
Hello Bangaluru Loknath
You correctly hit on the reasons that roads in Bangalore and Mysore are in such dreadful states.
These roads were created for the vehicles that IT techies brought in, working for the IT sweatshop outfits called Infosys and Wipro, which made their founders very rich.
Before then, there were less vehicular traffic in Bangalore. The roads were not in such bad states.
If today, you stop the vehicles using these roads and find out who they belong to, you will discover that 90% of them belong to these IT coolies, who are paid more in Indian Rupees from which they buy these vehicles. Cheaper for the Western companies to get their work done, in Bangalore, which is software coding work
It was Yedi, the RSS cheddi, the Liangayat CM who, shall we say pocked the money from these IT sweatshop owners, and created more roads for their employees. He also gave them away the cheap the green field land s in Mysore and Bangalore. So, more roads and more vehicles.
The domino effect was ,the IT outsourcing work became so dominant later, that many more IT sweatshops emerged , employed more IT coolies, and they in turn drove more vehicles. No road can handle this intense traffic.
Where is that IT techie coolie, who is toiling with 24/7 coding in Bay area in the US, who calls himself Sam, who is all praise for Murthys? He licked their shoes for years., and is all admiration for them!
The municipal authorities should be billing the cost of maintenance of the roads expanded in Bangalore to Infosys and Wipro, and other IT sweatshops springing up.
Now, you will see the 10-lane Mysore-Bangalore highway will be in a sorry state within a few years, as more and more IT techies commute to Bangalore from Ramanagara, Chennapatna and even from Mysore.
Yes, this is Modi’s Tech India! These IT techies are menace to whole world as they try to emigrate swamping the Western countries like Sam mentioned above!