India - Bridges, Flyovers, Grade Separators & Underpasses

[Suncity]

Originally Posted by ViMo

Why can't India build eye-pleasing roads?

That concept is simply not there.

You can easily say that a road is Indian when you see dust collection at the two sides (near the pavements) and the dividers. No one cleans them though the municipality has thousands of sweepers and cleaners on rolls.

[kshatriya]

Originally Posted by ViMo

Why can't India build eye-pleasing roads?

For now, I'll just settle for motorable roads!

[kshatriya]

Originally Posted by Suncity

That concept is simply not there.

You can easily say that a road is Indian when you see dust collection at the two sides (near the pavements) and the dividers. No one cleans them though the municipality has thousands of sweepers and cleaners on rolls.

The roads in town side, Mumbai and then Navi Mumbai are nice and clean with lots of tree lining and flower beds etc. Roads in the NCR and even Chennai appeared pretty tidy to me in a recent trip.

[ViMo]

Originally Posted by kshatriya

For now, I'll just settle for motorable roads!

Kshatriya, that's like short-changing yourself! Eye-pleasing roads don't require extra funding, but proper design and good quality control. It's more an attitude and quick-fix problem, rather than one about lack of resources.

[kshatriya]

Originally Posted by ViMo

Kshatriya, that's like short-changing yourself! Eye-pleasing roads don't require extra funding, but proper design and good quality control. It's more an attitude and quick-fix problem, rather than one about lack of resources.

Yeah true but come have a look at Mumbai's roads right now, they've been washed off with the rain and recently a guy broke his shoulder while negotaiting a strech! If the roads are just smooth and motorable I'll settle for it, let it not have proper medians with lovely flower beds and tree lining, proper lane markings, etc.. Just no potholes and clogging will be fine!

[ViMo]

Originally Posted by kshatriya

Yeah true but come have a look at Mumbai's roads right now, they've been washed off with the rain and recently a guy broke his shoulder while negotaiting a strech! If the roads are just smooth and motorable I'll settle for it, let it not have proper medians with lovely flower beds and tree lining, proper lane markings, etc.. Just no potholes and clogging will be fine!

Yeah, road-wise Mumbai is really a mess! I wonder how the people have the gumption to call Mumbai - a world class city! Yes, even I don't like flower beds and all that landscaping, because these can never substitute for proper design! BTW, what's the reason for all this rain-clogging? Is it so, that the roads don't slope as they should to the sides, or there are no drains to carry out the flood water?

[Suncity]

Originally Posted by ViMo

Yeah, road-wise Mumbai is really a mess! I wonder how the people have the gumption to call Mumbai - a world class city! Yes, even I don't like flower beds and all that landscaping, because these can never substitute for proper design! BTW, what's the reason for all this rain-clogging? Is it so, that the roads don't slope as they should to the sides, or there are no drains to carry out the flood water?

I think one of the reasons with the choking of the drains by all that dust, dirt and plastic. Take a walk along a flyover or road and check out the drain outlets.

[kshatriya]

Originally Posted by ViMo

Yeah, road-wise Mumbai is really a mess! I wonder how the people have the gumption to call Mumbai - a world class city! Yes, even I don't like flower beds and all that landscaping, because these can never substitute for proper design! BTW, what's the reason for all this rain-clogging? Is it so, that the roads don't slope as they should to the sides, or there are no drains to carry out the flood water?

Wherever there are storm water drains, they are largely clogged full of silt. Not to mention cheap bitumen and concrete used to construct the roads. Mumbai is the only Indian city facing this problem, all other metros now have nice roads. Recently in the bidding for road repair and re-laying, the lowest bids recieved were as much as 10-15% lower than the estimated cost!!

[Suncity]

Pune

[Suncity]

Guwahati

[Hindustani]

Proposed 3D model of upcoming flyover in Gujrat, India by Archisoft inc.

[ViMo]

Originally Posted by Suncity

Pune

I hope the quality of this flyover is as good as it's color scheme.

[Suncity]

Dated but interesting

BCC bonanza: Flyovers at every step
. KUSHALA

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2004 12:10:46 AM ]

BANGALORE : Four flyovers on a road which doesn’t need even one! Each flyover at a distance of just 250 metres. Costing Rs 10 crore each. Perhaps, you won’t find even a fly flying over these!

What to do, the BCC is like this only! Corporators’ ambitions fly high. They demand numerous flyovers and grade separators for their wards. And get them sanctioned too, at least on paper. After all, this is the election year. Among the 100 corporators, unfortunately, only half of them could get their ‘wish list’ approved: like several subways, underpasses and flyovers.



For instance: Five flyovers approved for ward 44, Jagajeevanramnagar — between Kamala Nehru and Raayapura; V.S. Garden; Venkataswamy Garden; P.K. Quarters; Harikunte main road.



On the intermediate Ring Road connecting Bannerghatta road to Mysore road, four flyovers have been proposed — Kadrenahalli cross, Deve Gowda petrol bunk, Katriguppe near Food World and Bannerghatta road junction. The distance between DG petrol bunk and Food World on Ring Road is not even 200 metres! Same is the case with ward 60 Pattabhiramanagara where four pedestrian subways have been proposed. Ward 98, Ganganagar, will get two subways, one flyover and one bridge.



The normally-laid-back BCC council okayed 65 additional resolutions in a jiffy on the last day of the 2004-05 budget discussion last month.



The resolutions have been signed by Mayor P.R. Ramesh and sent to BCC commissioner M.R. Sreenivasa Murthy to prepare estimates and appoint consultants for detailed project reports. “I have received the signed copy of the resolutions three days ago.We are examining them and necessary action will be taken after studying the projects,’’ Sreenivasa Murthy told The Times of India.



In all, the BCC has approved 54 grade separators at a cost of Rs 1,000 crore. This, when the BCC has not cleared contractors’ bills amounting to Rs 300 crore from nine months.



“For a city of global standing, we need greater maturity from people who plan projects. Being ambitious is fine, but the plans should be feasible. None, apart from the Congress floor leader and the Mayor, were aware of them. Not a word was mentioned on the financial implications,’’ BCC officials said.

Will these flyovers get off the ground? How does BCC propose to fund these ambitious projects? Even God doesn’t know!

[kshatriya]

The AIIMS flyover Delhi (Rajiv Gandhi Setu), A nine lane flyover

Plan



Actual pic (bad shot)



Delhi and other NCR cities already have so many swanky flyovers and interchanges, but where are the pics!!

[Suncity]

Originally Posted by kshatriya

Delhi and other NCR cities already have so many swanky flyovers and interchanges, but where are the pics!!

Didn't I tell you that all our photgraphers are busy photographing the "real India".

[kshatriya]

Pics of the AIIMS flyover I had taken. Messed up the shots big time but this is just awesome. And Delhi/NCR have several others like this, but no pics! These two pics were taken off trumpet ramps that exit from the ring road onto the road passing below.

[kshatriya]

Bytco Jn. flyover, Nashik - u/c image



Other road developments in Nashik -

Beautification of 'Mumbai Naka'



Widening of roads

[kshatriya]

Originally Posted by Suncity

Dated but interesting

BCC bonanza: Flyovers at every step

That's crazy. And Banglore is not even that huge, so looks like the city will be full of elevated roads....again no pics. You're right, no-one likes to take photos of such things I guess. But at least the guys who build em or peple like MMRDA, DDA etc. should have photos in their websites. But nothing! The Delhi elevated roads are seriously impressive and world class, and several others are u/c in other NCR cities. I didn't have time, else I would've gone and clicked every damn square inch!

[kshatriya]

Old news....developments in Ludhiana

Samrala chowk to have multi-tier flyover

Kuldip Bhatia

Ludhiana, March 5
With the preliminary traffic study and surveys for the proposed flyover at one of the busiest traffic junction in the city — the Samrala chowk — having been completed, the short-listed firms have come out with proposals for a multi-tier flyover at the spot. The comparative study of the proposals has gone in favour of one of the designs which is perhaps the most suited to the purpose. It provides for a flyover on the national highway for the Jalandhar - Delhi section and an underpass (motorable subway) for connecting the link road to the Chandigarh Road.

According to the Commissioner, municipal corporation, study of the traffic pattern and the volume of vehicular movement on the roads at the Samrala chowk, has led to the conclusion that a multi-tier flyover was the only solution. Moreover, with the kind of growth in the vehicle population in the industrial hub, long-term measures need to be adopted for better traffic management in the future.

For quite some time now the Samrala chowk where the national highway (G.T. Road), Ludhiana - Chandigarh road and Shingar Cinema road intersect, has been a major bottleneck for vehicular traffic and various ad hoc measures to bring some order have failed to yield the desired result. Even with the installation of traffic lights and deployment of traffic police personnel the existing set up is not able to cope with the amount of traffic on all these roads.

While the design and a scale model prepared by one of the surface transport consultancy firms, if selected, will be finalised after a feasibility study the tentative proposal provides for an eight-lane divided carriageway flyover on the G.T. Road (national highway). The flyover, a little more than a kilometre in length, will allow signal-free through movement on both sides for the Jalandhar - Delhi traffic. For the heavy volume of vehicular traffic on the Ludhiana - Chandigarh section a motorable underpass will connect the Chandigarh road with the Link road. The local and slow moving traffic on all roads, intersecting at the point, will be channelised through two rotaries on ground level, providing access to all these roads.

The Commissioner said the intersection being a junction of the national highway (Jalandhar-Ambala G.T. Road) and a state highway (Ludhiana-Chandigarh road), the MC would explore the possibility of getting funds from the Union Ministry of Surface Transport and the state government for sharing the cost of the major infrastructure development project with a tentative cost in excess of Rs 30 crore.

The MC, besides taking up the redevelopment of several intersections in different parts of the city had initiated a study of some more road junctions where the flow of traffic needed to be improved. Besides, 19 additional sites were identified for development as parking places to meet the increasing demand for parking sites in the mega city, the Commissioner added.

[kshatriya]

Lajpat Nagar flyover, Delhi - Huge traffic on the opening day