Tag: traffic
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Road Safety: Traffic Violations and Fines in Bengaluru
Bengaluru has the highest number of private vehicles in India, having crossed the 1 Crore mark in 2023. The high number of vehicles, combined with the relentless congestion in the city, has meant that there is also a high number of violations that are observed on the street like wrong-side driving, reckless driving, using mobile… Continue Reading
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Mapping the Under Construction Flyovers and Underpasses in Bengaluru
The Government of Karnataka recently proposed building 150 km of flyovers, underpasses and elevated corridors across Bengaluru. Plans to build flyovers and underpasses to decongest the city have been ongoing for more than a decade without yielding long term or significant results. Apart from having limited success in addressing traffic congestion, many of these underpasses… Continue Reading
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Solving The Traffic Problem in Bengaluru
Bangalore… one of the fastest growing cities, also known as India’s Silicon Valley, and a house of more than two million IT workers. Bengaluru, as it has been officially called since November 2014, is the hub of the US$ 45 billion information technology sector that contributes nearly 38% to India’s GDP. In fact, Bengaluru has… Continue Reading
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Road Crashes in Bengaluru – 2023
Bengaluru recorded 4,974 road crashes (traffic accidents), just shy of 5000, in 2023, according to data from the Bengaluru Traffic Police (BTP). This number is up from 3,823 in 2022, an increase of 30% in one year! This is also the highest since 2017 when 5,064 crashes were recorded. The number of road crashes has… Continue Reading
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Analysing Bengaluru Traffic Police’s Push to Automation
Bengaluru Traffic Police(BTP) have been on a drive towards automation over the past decade. More and more challans are being added on their website, and people are expected to find them and pay their dues. While this might give BTP a bit of breathing space to concentrate on more stringent violations, that does not seem… Continue Reading
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Analysis of DPR for the Sarakki Flyover at the Kanakapura Road-ORR junction
The junction of the Outer Ring Road (ORR) and Kanakapura Road at Sarakki is one of the busiest junctions in Bengaluru and there have been repeated calls from commuters and the traffic police to ease the traffic. BBMP proposed a flyover at that junction to ease the traffic. A Detailed Project Report was prepared to… Continue Reading
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Where are the accident hotspots in Bengaluru?
Bengaluru records around 700 deaths each year on average. As per latest data from the Bengaluru Traffic Police (BTP), 771 people were killed on Bengaluru’s roads in traffic accidents in 2022, which is more than 2 persons per day! This is slightly higher than the 768 recorded in 2019. While the Covid years of 2020… Continue Reading
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Bengaluru Traffic Datajam – Feb 2023
Can open data help solve a city’s challenges? What if the challenges are as complex as Bengaluru’s infamous traffic? Can a random cohort of people with diverse backgrounds and skills get together and come up with solutions? The Bengaluru Traffic Datajam held on the 4th of February, 2023 in the verdant campus of the Indian… Continue Reading
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Accidents and Pedestrian Safety in Indian Cities
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) released its road accidents report for 2021. This is a comprehensive report with exhaustive data on road accidents in India. The numbers are from FIRs filed across the country for road accidents, and thus the numbers look mostly the same as in the National Crime Records Bureau… Continue Reading
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What does Bengaluru’s traffic violations data say?
In June 2019, the Government of India raised the penalties for traffic violations. This was a move that was considered to be pending, and was expected to make our roads a lot safer. Surely, steeper fines would make people think a few more times before they jump that red signal? Three years on, we have… Continue Reading
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What does the NCRB traffic accidents data say?
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) published its report for the year 2021. This report includes– Crime statistics across India– Accidents statistics across India. This includes road accidents, railway accidents and railway crossing accidents. – Suicide statistics across India. This includes information about change in rate of suicides in the population over the years, means… Continue Reading