THE RING ROADS OF BANGALORE

The ring roads of bangalore are something special. It has made transport much easier through the city and improved routing. The ring roads beyond doubt show the world that bangalore is a progressive city. The progress is so much that that these roads also seem to be insufficient. the construction of metro started in bangalore around 2007 which is more of an overhead system and not an underground system seen in some countries. I happenned to use the NICE road recently and the concept itself is impressive and so are the roads.

I remember using the ring road for the first time in the year 1997 between hebbal and ramamurthynagar. There were no vehicles on the road and it was a smooth passage. By the year 2007 vehicular traffic on these roads began to increase manyfold and the earlier importance enjoyed by the central parts of the city began to diminish. I think peripheral ring road is also under way which will circumscribe the present ring roads.


All areas around the ring road has seen rapid development. So much so that there are traffic jams at every junction. This is the scenario in 2009. Many unerpasses are coming up on the ring road to ease congestions.

Though the metro might solve to some extent the transport problems of Bangalore , I strongly beleive Bangalore as a city needs elevated roads in dozens linking various key points to others. I think the town planners have to think in this direction. Though the progress of work is slow on road development programmes but still many things are underway.