Can Bengalooru emulate traffice rules in Germany and improve its road conditions?

I have been driving in Munich for the past six months. It is of course nice to drive on the well marked roads, high speed autobahns, rule abiding drivers, lesser polluted atmosphere, silence from the horns, and the list goes on..

The thought which often comes across my mind is that will Bangalore benefit to follow this model. Let us first face the fact that we are atleast 10 years away for the citizens to abide diligently to the rules of the road. But, even if they, will it solve the problems. Again, No.. The key differentiator is the quantum of vehicles and the range of vehicles.. With such a huge traffic any city will choke.. As a proof for this thought, I did have the privilege to get caught in huge traffice jams in Munich.

Once in the autobahn, it took me 2 hours to cover a distance of 20 kms. Believe me, this was a painful drive, especially drive neck to neck, only on a straight line, with a clear visibility of the jam for several more kilometres.. Here is the interesting part.. Some people decided rules were enough and started driving onto the buffer lane which should be used only for emergencies.. At some junctions, people crossed each other without following the rules of "right of way".. Yes, "people are the same everywhere, only a little more or little less".. Even for people, who were taught to abide rules from birth, got tempted to break the rules with a single traffic jam..

So, imagine if Munich was so much crowded as Bangalore with so much vehicles, I am sure we will have the same chaos in traffic. Actually, some of the "right of way" rules work only because of lesser traffic. At a junction where you want to take a left, you need to give preference to the oncoming traffic and take your turn only after the oncoming traffic ends. And, it works here because after 5 to 10 vehicles, the oncoming traffice really stops. Will this happen in Bangalore ? We will end up endlessly waiting for the vehicles without a stop...

So, at times, I think we are surviving in Bangalore traffic only because of the citizens who have learnt to adapt the rules to practical use. Of course, I do not justify all offenders in Bangalore who block the road on the wrong lane..

Is there a solution for bruhat bengalooru ? There is hope only by the following approaches:

a. Definitely, have a metro (clean, friendly, cost effective, well connected, punctual) to reduce
number of vehicles on road.
b. With better public transport, use and even sales of private vehicles will reduce. Make people enjoy the travel and spend the time for other activities like reading books..
c. Reduce variety of vehicles on the same road (cars, scooters, bikes, cycles, autos, carts). It can lead to more traffic jams and accidents..
d. Discourage vehicles to centre of city by increasing parking fee, making it terrible and even costly to park a private vehicle in the city centre.
e. Introduce "park and ride" concepts where people can take the vehicle from home to a nearest metro point, park their vehicle and travel comfortably in public transport. People mostly need the last mile in their own vehicle to compensate for practical inability to provide total connectivity to all parts of the city.
f. Develop well connected suburbs with more incentives for people to settle in the suburb with own townships.

Well, hoping towards a greener, cleaner Bangalore - the one atleast 20 years back...

List of New Villages part of Bruhat Bengalooru

Bruhat Bengalooru holds lot of promise, hides lot of anguish. It is nevertheless an attempt to bring order to the exponential growth of the city over the past years.

111 adjacent villages become part of the Greater Bangalore boundaries. A huge expansion in any measure - is it a path to glory or gory.... Only time will tell..

The list of new villages are as below. Source: www.bmponline.org

Sl. No. Taluk Gram-Panchayat Village

1. ANEKAL KUDLU KUDLU

2. BANGALORE EAST AVALAHALLI VARANASI

3. BANGALORE EAST BELLANDUR AMBALIPURA

4. BANGALORE EAST BELLANDUR BELLANDUR

5. BANGALORE EAST BELLANDUR BELLANDURAMANIKERE (B) (P)

6. BANGALORE EAST BELLANDUR DEVARA BEESANA HALLI

7. BANGALORE EAST BELLANDUR HARALUR

8. BANGALORE EAST BELLANDUR KARIYAMMANA AGRAHARA

9. BANGALORE EAST CHANNASANDRA CHANSANDRA

10. BANGALORE EAST CHANNASANDRA KADUGODI PLANTATION

11. BANGALORE EAST CHANNASANDRA KUMBENA AGRAHARA

12. BANGALORE EAST DASARAHALLI DASARAHALLI

13. BANGALORE EAST DASARAHALLI RACHENAHALLI

14. BANGALORE EAST DODDA GUBBI BILISHIVALE

15. BANGALORE EAST DODDA GUBBI BYRATHI

16. BANGALORE EAST DODDAKANNALLI DODDAKANNALLI

17. BANGALORE EAST DODDAKANNALLI JUNNASANDRA

18. BANGALORE EAST DODDAKANNALLI KAIKONDAHALLI

19. BANGALORE EAST DODDAKANNALLI KASAVANAHALLI

20. BANGALORE EAST GUNJUR GUNJUR

21. BANGALORE EAST HAGADUR HAGADUR

22. BANGALORE EAST HAGADUR NAGONDAHALLI

23. BANGALORE EAST HORAMAVU K.CHANNASANDRA

24. BANGALORE EAST HORAMAVU KALKERE

25. BANGALORE EAST HORAMAVU AGARA AMANI BYRATHIKHANE (B)

26. BANGALORE EAST HORAMAVU AGARA CHALAKERE

27. BANGALORE EAST HORAMAVU AGARA HORAMAVU AGARA

28. BANGALORE EAST K.NARAYANAPURA GEDDALAHALLI

29. BANGALORE EAST K.NARAYANAPURA KOTHNUR NARAYANAPURA

30. BANGALORE EAST K.NARAYANAPURA KOTTANURU

31. BANGALORE EAST K.NARAYANAPURA KYALASANAHALLI

32. BANGALORE EAST KANNURU MITTAGANAHALLI

33. BANGALORE EAST KODATHI CHIKKABELLANDUR

34. BANGALORE EAST PANATHUR BALAGERE

35. BANGALORE EAST PANATHUR PANATHUR

36. BANGALORE EAST RAMAGONDANAHALLI SIDDAPURA

37. BANGALORE EAST VARTHUR VARTHUR

38. BANGALORE EAST PANATHUR KADABEESANAHALLI

39. BANGALORE EAST THANISANDRA THANISANDRA

40. BANGALORE EAST HORAMAVU HORAMAVU

41. BANGALORE EAST PANATHUR BHOGANAHALLI

42. BANGALORE EAST RAMAGONDANAHALLI RAMAGONDANAHALLI

43. BANGALORE EAST RAMAGONDANAHALLI THUBARAHALLI

44. BANGALORE EAST SEEGEHALLI BELATHUR

45. BANGALORE EAST SORAHUNISE SORAHUNISE

46. BANGALORE EAST K.NARAYANAPURA NAGARESHWARA - NAGENAHALLI

47. BANGALORE EAST SORAHUNISE KHANEKANDAYA (B)

48. BANGALORE SOUTH ANJANAPURA GP PILLAGANAHALLI

49. BANGALORE SOUTH BASAVANAPURA GP KAMMANAHALLI

50. BANGALORE SOUTH BEGUR GP BEGUR

51. BANGALORE SOUTH DODDAKALLASANDRA GP ALAHALLI

52. BANGALORE SOUTH DODDAKALLASANDRA GP DODDAKALLASANDRA

53. BANGALORE SOUTH DODDATHOGURU GP BASAPURA

54. BANGALORE SOUTH DODDATHOGURU GP CHIKKATHOGURU

55. BANGALORE SOUTH DODDATHOGURU GP DODDATHOGURU (P)

56. BANGALORE SOUTH GOTTIKERE GP GOTTIKERE

57. BANGALORE SOUTH HEMMIGEPURA GP GANAKAL

58. BANGALORE SOUTH SUBRAMANYAPURA GP GABBALALU

59. BANGALORE SOUTH SUBRAMANYAPURA GP VASANTHAPURA

60. BANGALORE SOUTH UTTARAHALLI GP UTTARAHALLI

61. BANGALORE SOUTH ANJANAPURA GP ANJANAPURA

62. BANGALORE SOUTH ANJANAPURA GP GOLLAHALLI

63. BANGALORE SOUTH ANJANAPURA GP KEMBATHAHALLI

64. BANGALORE SOUTH ANJANAPURA GP THIPPASANDRA

65. BANGALORE SOUTH BASAVANAPURA GP BASAVANAPURA

66. BANGALORE SOUTH BASAVANAPURA GP KALENA AGRAHARA

67. BANGALORE SOUTH BEGUR GP YELENAHALLI

68. BANGALORE SOUTH HEMMIGEPURA GP LINGADHEERANAHALLI

69. BANGALORE SOUTH KONAPPANA AGRAHARA GP BERATENA AGRAHARA

70. BANGALORE SOUTH KONAPPANA AGRAHARA GP NAGANATHAPURA

71. BANGALORE SOUTH KONAPPANA AGRAHARA GP PARAPPANA AGRAHARA

72. BANGALORE SOUTH SUBRAMANYAPURA GP SUBRAMANYAPUR

73. BANGALORE SOUTH SULIKERE GP SONNENAHALLI

74. BANGALORE SOUTH TALGHATPUR GP HOSAHALLI

75. BANGALORE SOUTH TALGHATPUR GP RAGHUVANAHALLI

76. BANGALORE SOUTH TALGHATPUR GP UTTARAHALLI -MANAVARTHEKAVAL(P)

77. BANGALORE SOUTH TALGHATPUR GP VAJARAHALLI

78. BANGALORE SOUTH UTTARAHALLI GP AREHALLI

79. BANGALORE SOUTH UTTARAHALLI GP THURAHALLI

80. BANGALORE SOUTH BEGUR GP CHANDRASEKARAPURA

81. BANGALORE SOUTH HEMMIGEPURA GP HEMMIGEPURA

82. BANGALORE SOUTH HEMMIGEPURA GP SOMAPURA

83. BANGALORE SOUTH HEMMIGEPURA GP VARAHASANDRA

84. BANGALORE SOUTH SUBRAMANYAPURA GP VADDARA PALYA

85. BANGALORE NORTH HEROHALLI HEROHALLI

86. BANGALORE NORTH KODAGIHALLI ULLALU

87. BANGALORE NORTH ABBIGERE ABBIGERE

88. BANGALORE NORTH CHIKKABANAVARA CHIKKASANDRA

89. BANGALORE NORTH CHIKKABANAVARA SHETTIHALLI

90. BANGALORE NORTH CHIKKABANAVARA SIDEDAHALLI

91. BANGALORE NORTH DODDABETTAHALLI CHIKKA BETTAHALLI

92. BANGALORE NORTH DODDABIDARAKALLU KARIOBANAHALLI

93. BANGALORE NORTH HEROHALLI GIDADAKONENAHALLI

94. BANGALORE NORTH HEROHALLI HANDRAHALLI

95. BANGALORE NORTH ABBIGERE MYADARAHALLI

96. BANGALORE NORTH DODDABETTAHALLI DODDA BETTAHALLI

97. BANGALORE NORTH DODDABIDARAKALLU DODDABIDARAKALLU

98. BANGALORE NORTH GANTIGANAHALLI HAROHALLI

99. BANGALORE NORTH GANTIGANAHALLI VASUDEVAPURA

100. BANGALORE NORTH HEROHALLI LINGADEERANAHALLI (B)

101. BANGALORE NORTH KATGENAHALLI BELLAHALLI

102. BANGALORE NORTH KATGENAHALLI KATTIGENAHALLI

103. BANGALORE NORTH KATGENAHALLI SRINIVASAPURA

104. BANGALORE NORTH KATGENAHALLI THIRUMENAHALLI

105. BANGALORE NORTH KODAGIHALLI HOSAHALLI GOLLARAPALYA

106. BANGALORE NORTH SINGANAYAKANAHALLI ANANTHAPURA

107. BANGALORE NORTH GANTIGANAHALLI GOVINDAPURA

108. BANGALORE NORTH GANTIGANAHALLI KENCHENAHALLI

109. BANGALORE NORTH GANTIGANAHALLI MANCHENAHALLI

110. BANGALORE NORTH KATGENAHALLI CHOKKANAHALLI

111. BANGALORE NORTH YELAHANKA VADERAPURA

Boundaries of Greater Bangalore

Source: www.bmponline.org

The new boundary of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike is as follows:

In the north, the boundary starts from the junction of Govindapura and Vaderapura, the boundary is co-terminus with northern boundary of Vaderapura running in eastern direction touches junction of Venkatala and Kattigenahalli village limits and runs further towards east along the northern boundary of Kattigenahalli. The boundary again touches junction of Kattigenahalli, Kogilu and Mittaganahalli.

The boundary further covers the northern and eastern limits of Mittagenahalli running towards south, along the eastern limits of villages – Bellahalli, Chokkanahalli and further running in Southeast direction encompasses the villages – Kottanur, Byrathi, Kyalasanahalli and Bileshivale.

Further the boundary runs southwards along the eastern limits of Bileshivale, Kalkere, K Chennasandra and Varanasi. From the eastern boundary of Varanasi, the boundary runs eastwards and runs along the northern limits of Sannatammahalli, Bhattarahalli, Medahalli (of K.R. Puram CMC).

The boundary further runs southwards encompassing Medahalli and Shigehalli (of K.R. Puram CMC) and touches northern boundary of Kodigehalli (of Mahadevapura CMC) running eastwards along the northern boundary of Kodagehalli, Sadamangala, Kumbena Agrahara, Belathur and touches Kadugodi Village.

Further in the boundary running along the eastern boundary, encompasses the villages – Kadugodi, Channasandra, Nagondahalli, Hagadur, Khanekondaya, Sorhunse and Varthur.

From the junction of Varthur, the boundary runs towards west encompassing the villages – Varthur, Gunjur, Chikkabelandur, Doddakanalli.

From the junction of villages Doddakanalli and Junnasandra, the boundary moves towards south encompassing the villages – Junnasandra, Haralur, Kudlu, Parappana Agrahara, Nagnathapura, Baretena Agrahara and Chikkathoguru.

The boundary runs westwards along the southern boundary of villages Chikkathoguru, Begur, Yelenahalli, Kammanahalli encompassing the village Basavanapura, Gottigere the boundary runs westwards along the southern limits of villages Piliganahalli. Kembathahall, Gollahalli and Anjanapura. Encompassing Anjanapura and Vajarahalli, the boundary runs westwards along the southern limits of Hosahalli,Uttarahalli, Manvarthi Kawal(P), Lingadeeranahalli, Sompura, Varahasandra. Further running northwards, the boundary encompasses Hemmigepura, Chudenapura (of Rajarajeshwari nagar CMC) and this runs along the western boundary of Kengeri TMC.

From the junction of Nagadevanahalli (of Kengeri TMC) and Sonnenahalli, the boundary moves towards north along the boundary and encompasses villages – Sonnenahalli, Ullalu, Herohalli, Hosahalli Gollarapalya, Lingadeeranahalli (B), Handrahalli, Karivobanahalli, Doddabidarkallu, Bagalakunte (of Dasarahalli CMC), Siddedhalli.

From the junction of Siddedahalli & Tammenahalli the boundary while running towards east encompasses villages – Siddedahlli, Chikkasandra, Myadarahalli, Abbigere, Shigapura (of Byatarayanapura CMC)

From the junction of Lakshmipura, Shigapura (of Byatarayanapura CMC) Chickkabettahalli, the boundary runs towards north covers villages Chikkabettahalli, Doddabettahalli, Atturu (of Yelahanka CMC), Ananthpura & Harohalli villages.