Chennai Traffic Management

[vinodgopal]

just see them during month ends when they need a little extra money and await their paycheck. All sorts of cases would be booked such as even not having pollution check sticker stuck in a bike.

[rsrikanth05]

Originally Posted by vinodgopal

just see them during month ends when they need a little extra money and await their paycheck. All sorts of cases would be booked such as even not having pollution check sticker stuck in a bike.

That happens all over India.
Chennai cops are strict when it comes to catching offenders, but they are polite, and nice to you.

[Arul Murugan]

We need a major revamp on parking of buses at CMBT.

[Arul Murugan]

There are 6 bays from bottom

Cramped bay - looking at the condition around 15:00hrs Imagine this during peak nt hour... it will be horrible.

1. Trichy and Bengaluru
2. Madurai, Nellai and deep south
3. Delta towns, Coimbatore, Salem, Andhra

Very less crowd and free

100% allotted to Villupuram division alone.

4. Hosur,Dharmapuri,Mettur,Vellore
5. Vellore, Pondy, Cuddalore
6. Thiruvanamalai and others....

The crowd has to be dilluted! i.e high saturated 1,2,3 should get dillutted with 4,5,6. This should bring down the congestion to some extent.

[Arul Murugan]

News in DInakaran too.

This is South TN+West TN+AP bay. Urgent need for expansion of CMBT.

[rojarjain]

Channai Traffics management has to decide a veriation rules like,
1) Vehicles having registration to ply on Saturday.
2) Thursday and Friday as part of the traffic management plan mooted by CCTP to check vehicular population.
3) Flexible work to the working woman to help traffic management to ensure free flow of traffic on Chennai roads.
4) With the cleaning up of Buckingham canal, increased lighting facility, easy access to the MRTS stations, safety and security during non-peak hours, increased connectivity between bus stops and railway stations.

[deepaksubramaniyan]

CMBT chaos jams traffic up to Thirumangalam

CHENNAI: It is a nightmare for commuters at the Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus in Koyambedu everyday. People generally think that the Metro Rail works and narrow roads were the primary cause of the perennial traffic congestion in the area, but this is not the entire truth. Motorists who are often forced to wait for hours together at traffic signals blame the police for traffic mismanagement, without realising that the real culprit for this chaos is the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA).

The CMDA, which is responsible for management of the moffusil bus terminus, has failed to streamline the parking of buses inside the terminal, resulting in utter chaos. The stagnation of traffic near the entry gate of CMBT on Karumari Amman street, (opposite the Koyambedu police station) is due to haphazard parking of the buses inside. This results in a ripple effect throwing traffic out of gear on 100 Feet Road, Poonamallee High Road, Thirumangalam junction and the Maduravoyal junction.

If there is a block inside the mofussil bus terminus, the traffic will, as a result, get blocked for hours together from Vadapalani in the West up to Thirumangalam in the East. Two traffic policemen have to spend nearly half-an-hour inside the terminus to clear up the congestion, said a senior police officer on condition of anonymity. “We spend close to 5-6 hours a day inside the bus terminus trying to clear the congestion, with no help coming from transport department,” said a Sub inspector.

In summer, around 4,000 government buses belonging to 22 transport corporations from various parts of the State come to the terminals to drop off passengers in six parking bays allocated for them. According to the procedure, the buses should leave the terminals after dropping the passengers, but they all park the vehicles inside the terminals.

“The main problem is due to the chaos in the first parking bay. In the first four bays, which are originally allocated to SETC Tiruchy buses, other area buses like the ones routed� to Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari and other Southern districts park their vehicles here. Meanwhile, SETC Tiruchy buses park on the rear side of the bay, blocking the movement of other vehicles coming through the entry road, into the bus stand,” said the traffic police officer.

The bus drivers have liaison with the hotels put up inside the bus terminus to help them make money parking in the first bay. The place allocated for Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari and other Southern district buses are now occupied by the Karnataka buses, said the officer.

Apart from this, there is no need to have a petrol bunk inside the terminus, which has only added to the traffic congestion as vehicles again pile up to fill petrol before leaving the bus stand. In the name of saving 10 paise/litre by filling petrol here, they waste `10 on petrol while taking the vehicle outside,” he said.

Even at the existing station, the equipment is not maintained properly as four out of the six fueling machines are out of order.

“If we try to apprehend the bus drivers to move their vehicles, they won’t listen to us. Instead, they threaten us saying that they will take up the issue with the union,” said the disgruntled traffic police officer.

As a temporary solution, the traffic police have already suggested to the CMDA to shift the SETC buses and other buses destined for Southern districts to bay one, so that entry road will not get blocked due to parking congestion. Even the new Transport Minister, V Senthil Balaji, visited the bus terminus and examined the problem soon after taking charge.

The government should find an alternative site for parking for mofussil buses. Till then, Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority officials should work towards solving the problem, the policemen felt.

In spite of repeated attempts to contact, CMDA officials were unavailable for comment.

[deepaksubramaniyan]

Source: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/cmbt-chao...45-60-120.html

[rsrikanth05]

Someone should station traffic wardens at all times inside the station to ensure that the buses park in the right place.

[arun82]

Look at the land bank of Metro water and Koyambedu Market. But they will not allow lease of their land to park the buses. Bus terminus is a place where the bus has to drop in or pick up people . But in CMBT they have a maintenance depot , washing depot, Fuel station and unplanned parking. Then why will not be traffic jam. All buses arrive only thru Maduravoyal road or North Chennai. All of them can use the road in Mahurvoyal road instead IRR so they dont have jam the signal in front of CMBT. All buses leaving CMBT can turn South and go around Koyambedu market and Join Maduravoyal road. All SETC / TNSTC long distance buses to be parked in the last bay or parked in the land vacant inside Koyambedu market. Allow the buses to enter the bus stand only 30 mins before departure. Operate the some special buses from Tambaram, Asarkana instead of taking them to CMBT and making a huge traffic Jams

[venkatm]

You can't trust the dumb people filling all posts in CMDA, CMBT and Transport Corpn's to find a solution. They will make the running of a filthy bus stand to sound as if they are running O'Hare.

[rsrikanth05]

Originally Posted by venkatm

You can't trust the dumb people filling all posts in CMDA, CMBT and Transport Corpn's to find a solution. They will make the running of a filthy bus stand to sound as if they are running O'Hare.

Filthy because the populace has made it that way.
We need to learn manners.
We need more people applying for the Civil Services in order to have smart people running PSUs.

[dr_thapalathy]

Originally Posted by rsrikanth05

We need more people applying for the Civil Services in order to have smart people running PSUs.

That wont happen in India.
Something miraculous must happen in the world for smart people managing PSUs.

[kannan infratech]

Originally Posted by dr_thapalathy

That wont happen in India.
Something miraculous must happen in the world for smart people managing PSUs.

It is the system which stumps even the smart heads of PSUs.

Here, they have to be extra smart & wily to beat the system and also achieve what they visualise.

I know of a case where the subordinates dragged an issue by citing N no of reasons till the Head was transferred so that they could favour their choice. The HOD felt so helpless that he tried to retrieve the file himself and the file mysteriously disappeared.

The top Babus are made to depend on sub ordinates for even small things and they can not act without the help of subordinates.

This practice makes some Babus more arrogant and they threaten their subordinates to get things done. Memos and charge sheets have become so common in Govt circles and hardly any Govt servant can escape.

There are many politically powerful lower grade clerks who run the show in many depts. Pathetic situation!

[venkatm]

You need to compare CMBT or the new Hosur bus stand with the Mysore City bus stand or even the satellite bus stand on Mysore Road in B'lore. You will notice these key differences

KA
Platforms will be busy but clean
You won't see people eating and trashing the place
Spitters will be far and few
Shops will not encroach and be orderly
Toilets smelly but not dirty
Exit from bus stand is still chaotic

TN
Platforms will be very busy and resemble a minefield
Food items, water bottles all over the place
Everybody will be spitting every 2 minutes. All walls will be Red
Toilets are hell
The encroached area will be twice the size of the shop he is paying rent for
Exit very chaotic

[rsrikanth05]

You'll need to go super high tech for that.
Digitalise the Challan system, with BlackBerrys etc. and have traffic camerass everywhere.

Originally Posted by venkatm

You need to compare CMBT or the new Hosur bus stand with the Mysore City bus stand or even the satellite bus stand on Mysore Road in B'lore. You will notice these key differences

KA
Platforms will be busy but clean Nope, not clean eveywhere.
You won't see people eating and trashing the place You do, on a daily basis.
Spitters will be far and few Have a look at the subways and footbridges at these BS
Shops will not encroach and be orderly They'll encroach and charge more than MRP, and not have a dustbin
Toilets smelly but not dirty And Free
Exit from bus stand is still chaotic KBS has a dedicated road

TN
Platforms will be very busy and resemble a minefield But still manoeuvrable
Food items, water bottles all over the place Atleast you have dustbins
Everybody will be spitting every 2 minutes. All walls will be Red Actually lesser than Bangalore
Toilets are hell Still free
The encroached area will be twice the size of the shop he is paying rent for But he'll have a dustbin
Exit very chaotic But better than KA

My repsonse is in BOLD.

[dr_thapalathy]

Originally Posted by Arul Murugan

We need a major revamp on parking of buses at CMBT.

What is the construction going on at the side of the Mofussil bus entry / exit road? Any idea??

[dineshderick]

Originally Posted by dr_thapalathy

What is the construction going on at the side of the Mofussil bus entry / exit road? Any idea??

Chennai Metro Works.

[rsrikanth05]

Originally Posted by dineshderick

Chennai Metro Works.

All the construction work at CMBT in the MTC section and the road to the outstation section are for Metro.

[murlee]

T. Nagar multilevel parking venture yet to take off

The first joint venture by the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) and the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) for construction of a multilevel vehicle parking facility in T.Nagar bus terminus is yet to materialise even months after both the agencies agreed.

The total area of the terminus is around 1.5 acre and the total area of the multilevel parking facility would be 17,320 sq m. After the MTC agreed last year to provide land for the joint venture with funds from the CMDA, a proposal was made to develop the parking facility without disturbing the bus terminus, said an official of the CMDA.

Even after everything was favourable to the development of the parking facility, the government shelved the proposal six months ago, the official added.

The multilevel parking lot is expected to help visitors to the crowded shopping area, where parking has remained a concern for long. The four floors of the proposed parking space would house 472 cars and have four elevators for lifting the vehicles. A one-way ramp was also proposed for use during mechanical failure of elevators or during power failure.

The decision taken at a meeting organised by the CMDA with the Transport Department last November was considered a first step by the CMDA towards setting up of multilevel vehicle parking facilities in joint venture with various land-owning government departments.

“The parking facility in the area would certainly reduce traffic congestion. But it should be without any additional commercial development of space in the bus stand,” said S. Santhanam, former member-Chief Urban Planner, CMDA.

The CMDA had opted for the model proposed by the report of Mecon Limited, a Union Government enterprise, which was hired to prepare a feasibility report for developing multilevel car parking complexes at six locations a few years ago.

This was proposed to be a revenue-sharing model to mitigate the problems of parking. Everything fell in place after four years but suddenly the project was shelved by the government a few months ago, said an official of CMDA.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...cle2091448.ece