Two Wheelers and Bangalore

The Bangalore city of today is full of two wheelers and many use this as a mode of transport from one place to another like in few other cities of the World. Barring a few months during the rainy season a two wheeler is a cozy device to travel around the city.

When did the two wheeler revolution throng the city..perhaps in the early 1980’s or so –prior to which time there only few two wheelers to be seen in the city largely Scooters and motorbikes. Scooters like Lamberetta , Vespa and few other not to mention the motor cycles like Java and Yezdi.

Companies like “Honda” are responsible in making Bangalore a two wheeler friendly city. Most of the varieties of two wheelers mentioned above had gears and a kick start seen as unfriendly propositions for any two wheeler and there came the modern scooterette which had no kick-start and at the same time some of them had auto gears.

A  large support mechanism has grown around the town to service and repair two wheelers. Research must be done to make all two wheelers as light as possible..occupy less space on the roads..and have no manual or foot gear changing; which means all have auto gears…professionalize the network of servicing in some form ..design a rain coat to protect the rider completely from the rain....Two wheelering in the city would even thrive further giving the rider autonomy of transit and at the same time at the fraction of the cost and time needed by a car .

My niece Shreya

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PALACE RAILWAY STATION IN BANGALORE

Some time back I had written about the Bangalore Palace..a majestic structure at a serene outreach of the city largely left to itself without recognition largely because access to this place is complex though an important life line of the city the Palace road and few other roads run closer to this structure.

There is a key encouraging fact to the situation...the possibility of setting up a   Palace Railway Station along the railway tracks.

Firstly such a station would make the Palace very accessible. Next it would serve as an important traffic de-congester. To my observation the Madras railway line necessarily does not touch key locations of the city namely the key roads of the city. The closest it gets is the Cantonment station and note that this station too is far flung to the city. On the other hand a Station at this point would make the Cunningham road quickly accessible and where-from the other parts of the town.

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