The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Transport growth centres envisaged in Master Plan

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Tuesday, Jul 26, 2005

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Transport growth centres envisaged in Master Plan

Staff Reporter

Centres on Outer Ring Road, proposed Peripheral Ring Road

BANGALORE: To improve utilisation of public transport in Bangalore, the revised comprehensive draft Master Plan 2015 suggests the setting up of transport growth centres — facilities that help link one mode of transport to another.

The centres will be set up at junctions on the Outer Ring Road and the proposed Peripheral Ring Road. "We have designed these centres in areas where the railway network is good and where there are major radial roads to the city," says an urban designer with SCE Creocean, the French consultant company that helped the Bangalore Development Authority develop the plan.

The transport network will have access to the railway system, the proposed metro or monorail system and bus services.

The consultant company held discussions with the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation to suggest the development of bus shelters in some of these areas and improvement of bus services to the proposed transport centres.

"The Mass Rapid Transport System in Chennai is doing badly because it is not well connected with other modes of transport. In certain sectors, people who get off a train have to walk over a kilometre to get a bus. We wanted to avoid such a situation," the urban designer said.

Seven of the growth centres are proposed along the Peripheral Ring Road and six along the Outer Ring Road, which will help regulate entry of vehicles into the business district in the centre of the city.

Integration

The Master Plan has integrated the transport centres with land use as demarcated in the plan. "We have carefully planned each of these centres because we know that good roads and access to transport lead to rapid development," the urban designer said.

The focus of growth centres will be on providing diverse transport options to the public. According to the Master Plan, the transport centres along the Peripheral Ring Road will come up along the Beniganahalli flyover, Electronics City, Tumkur Road-Peripheral Road junction, the railway station on Sarjapur Road, the Jakkur airstrip on Bellary Road, and at the PRR-Mysore Road junction near Kumbalgod.

Transport growth centres have been suggested at Yeshwantpur and R.V. Road, the end-point junctions of the North-South corridor of the proposed metro rail alignment, Mysore Road-Outer Ring Road junction and Byappannahalli, and the end-point junctions of the East-West corridor of the Metro railway. Two centres have been suggested at Hebbal flyover - Outer Ring Road junction, and Silk Board - Outer Ring Road junction.

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