Before this please read the following blog: (in case u have not read)
What went Wrong ?? : BRT Chaos at Delhi. (click here)
and now as per habit I proceed with News TOI 27th May 2008 and after that you can read my thoughts on same.NEW DELHI: Alarmed by the growing number of accidents on the BRT corridor between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand, the transport department has decided to shut down the corridor dedicated to bus movement between 11 pm to 5 am. This is likely to come into effect from Tuesday night.
"It was seen that most of the accidents have happened during the night or early morning. Many of these accidents happen because pedestrians and cars take liberties as there are not too many buses plying at night and then get. As a precautionary measure, we have decided to close the bus lane at night—both to pedestrians and vehicles. By closing the lane, chances of pedestrians or cars trying to get into the corridor and suddenly getting hit by a bus can be averted," senior transport department officials added.
Transport minister Haroon Yusuf has also directed the transport department once again to carry out training programmes for bus drivers plying on this route to sensitise them. "An awareness campaign for commuters and pedestrians using the route has also been proposed," Yusuf added.
In the last one week three people lost their lives to accidents in the BRT corridor. With the recent spate of accidents, the transport department and the government are now having second thoughts about the much hyped Pilot-B project, spanning from Moolchand flyover to Delhi Gate.
The Pilot-B project, made public on May 6, will follow a different design. In the new project, the bus lane will be shifted to the left instead of the centre and there will be three lanes for cars. It is proposed that there will be no medians dividing the lanes. The bus lane will be painted a different colour to create a corridor for the buses. Enforcement by the traffic police is to ensure that the cars don’t run into the lane.
According to a recent assessment by the transport department, however, a bus corridor on the left could be problematic as there are as many as 80 turnings if both sides of the road on the eight-kilometre between Moolchand flyover and Delhi Gate are taken into account. A large number of vehicles on that route might want to take those turns, making it impossible to maintain a free-flowing bus lane.
In an effort to sort out problems on the Pilot-B corridor, the transport department will focus on completing the pedestrian tracks and cycle tracks and widen the road over the next three to four months. The left lane execution on Pilot-B will only begin after that. A senior transport department official said that the Pilot-B project was " going to be an experiment," indicating that there are no guarantees of success.
---------------Long Huh???? sorry for keeping u waiting---
so what do u think but why should u think I am there to think and write and then u comment :D...so in last episode u saw how meticulously planned :P BRT is claiming lives too, do i need to recommend more planning and investigations before a project is implemented on city. I am sure there was no simulations (i say) or biased simulations (experts say) done by planners with literally only talking capabilities and no technical ones. (no offence intended but i cant resist too if Shahrukh can be Aamir's doggy name y not i can name my pets on something)
Post Mortem:
In the new project, the bus lane will be shifted to the left instead of the centre and there will be three lanes for cars. It is proposed that there will be no medians dividing the lanes. The bus lane will be painted a different colour to create a corridor for the buses.
Ohh so they thot that bus lanes should be in center and bust stops on extreme left wow a nice idea and now they realize that NO !!! it should be all in left side since the bus stop can't be in center.
Lovely did u get that a bus was moving in center lane and then when bus stop comes it has to go extreme left to bust stop. So what is maneuvering, can u assume a speeding bus in center all of sudden takes left in front of ur vehicle. Nice planning though
According to a recent assessment by the transport department, however, a bus corridor on the left could be problematic as there are as many as 80 turnings if both sides of the road on the eight-kilometre between Moolchand flyover and Delhi Gate are taken into account. A large number of vehicles on that route might want to take those turns, making it impossible to maintain a free-flowing bus lane
80 turnings and you simulated them. I cant believe if u had i am sure you would have seen the chaos created by you . Ok let me give some brain to these dumbos problem I suggest that their is something called Bus priority at signals so technically two instruments must be placed few meters away from the signal on bus lane and they should detect the bus (loop detectors) . The bus once moving on lane is detected the signal should give a priority to bus and stop all other vehicles and similarly if the green time (time when its green signal yaar :) ) for signals and queue length of other traffic is more then give a longer duration and u can stop the bus . This has been done in one of mine and my friends work a paper : "Simulating bus priority system for an urban corridor in Mumbai City. " Jigesh N Bhavsar, Sushant Sharma and S.L Dhingra, in Proc. 11th World Conference on Transportation Research 2007, University of California, Berkeley, USA, June. 2007. (Presented at WCTR -2007, Berkeley USA ). [THIS IS NOT AT ALL FOR MY PUBLICITY :)]. We did it using VISSIM simulation tool for traffic and it gave pretty good results and we validated it at Borivali Junction at Bombay. I know its practically a little difficult but better than this kind of chaos.
In an effort to sort out problems on the Pilot-B corridor, the transport department will focus on completing the pedestrian tracks and cycle tracks and widen the road over the next three to four months.
So now they understand who is important and who bears the brunt of all chaos. Public dear general public and that too poor ones who have to either walk or cycle and whose life is not costlier for planners.
A senior transport department official said that the Pilot-B project was " going to be an experiment," indicating that there are no guarantees of success.
Please ask your "senior transport planner" to put a layman on work common sense is mightier than too educated brain. No dont jump on conclusion as fast and consider that too much of education ruins everything infact it opens the doors which u wont have seen without depth of knowledge.
But one thing of which I am pretty unsure that if they can't guarantee success why are they "Experts" .
so what do u think but why should u think I am there to think and write and then u comment :D...so in last episode u saw how meticulously planned :P BRT is claiming lives too, do i need to recommend more planning and investigations before a project is implemented on city. I am sure there was no simulations (i say) or biased simulations (experts say) done by planners with literally only talking capabilities and no technical ones. (no offence intended but i cant resist too if Shahrukh can be Aamir's doggy name y not i can name my pets on something)
Post Mortem:
In the new project, the bus lane will be shifted to the left instead of the centre and there will be three lanes for cars. It is proposed that there will be no medians dividing the lanes. The bus lane will be painted a different colour to create a corridor for the buses.
Ohh so they thot that bus lanes should be in center and bust stops on extreme left wow a nice idea and now they realize that NO !!! it should be all in left side since the bus stop can't be in center.
Lovely did u get that a bus was moving in center lane and then when bus stop comes it has to go extreme left to bust stop. So what is maneuvering, can u assume a speeding bus in center all of sudden takes left in front of ur vehicle. Nice planning though
According to a recent assessment by the transport department, however, a bus corridor on the left could be problematic as there are as many as 80 turnings if both sides of the road on the eight-kilometre between Moolchand flyover and Delhi Gate are taken into account. A large number of vehicles on that route might want to take those turns, making it impossible to maintain a free-flowing bus lane
80 turnings and you simulated them. I cant believe if u had i am sure you would have seen the chaos created by you . Ok let me give some brain to these dumbos problem I suggest that their is something called Bus priority at signals so technically two instruments must be placed few meters away from the signal on bus lane and they should detect the bus (loop detectors) . The bus once moving on lane is detected the signal should give a priority to bus and stop all other vehicles and similarly if the green time (time when its green signal yaar :) ) for signals and queue length of other traffic is more then give a longer duration and u can stop the bus . This has been done in one of mine and my friends work a paper : "Simulating bus priority system for an urban corridor in Mumbai City. " Jigesh N Bhavsar, Sushant Sharma and S.L Dhingra, in Proc. 11th World Conference on Transportation Research 2007, University of California, Berkeley, USA, June. 2007. (Presented at WCTR -2007, Berkeley USA ). [THIS IS NOT AT ALL FOR MY PUBLICITY :)]. We did it using VISSIM simulation tool for traffic and it gave pretty good results and we validated it at Borivali Junction at Bombay. I know its practically a little difficult but better than this kind of chaos.
In an effort to sort out problems on the Pilot-B corridor, the transport department will focus on completing the pedestrian tracks and cycle tracks and widen the road over the next three to four months.
So now they understand who is important and who bears the brunt of all chaos. Public dear general public and that too poor ones who have to either walk or cycle and whose life is not costlier for planners.
A senior transport department official said that the Pilot-B project was " going to be an experiment," indicating that there are no guarantees of success.
Please ask your "senior transport planner" to put a layman on work common sense is mightier than too educated brain. No dont jump on conclusion as fast and consider that too much of education ruins everything infact it opens the doors which u wont have seen without depth of knowledge.
But one thing of which I am pretty unsure that if they can't guarantee success why are they "Experts" .
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