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"Road Dividers" or "Walls"?

Recently most of the important roads of Bangalore have been made double roads.

As part of that, "Road Dividers" have been placed in the middle of roads, so that the traffic gets streamlined.

This is a welcome move and helps.

But, the way these "Dividers" have been built is causing lot of problems. I live on Kanakapura Road and I was travelling near 7th Block Jayanagar at around 8 PM.

The street lights on that road doesn't give enough visibility during nights. And hence it was almost dark.

All of a sudden, I saw somebody standing in the middle of the road, that too it was only few meters from me.

Since, there was not much traffic at that moment, I was able to turn my car to left and avoid hitting the figure and then slowed down my car.

To my surprise, I saw a lady trying to cross the road and she had a small kid in her hand.

Since the road divider is almost 1.5 feet high, she was finding it difficult to cross and hence she was standing in the middle of the road.

I have also experienced the difficulty while crossing the Kanakapura Road.
The divider is very high and also narrow.

So, we cannot stand on that and if I try to jump in a hurry, I might fall down.
And traffic will be coming in both the directions and I am afraid to stand on one side of the divider.

I don't know, why such high dividers have been made and why these people haven't thought about the public (especially ladies with kids and elderly people).

Either the divider has to be widened, so that people can stand in the middle before crossing the other part.

Or crossing bays should be introduced every 50 meters where the hight is reduced and divider is widened and people can easily cross the road.

Otherwise, there could be accidents and people might lose their precious life and authorities might open their eyes after that.

arun_syakty

yes! i completely agree with you. Recently i was travelling with my friend in two wheeler. To our unfortunate,there was a road divider which was looking more or less like road indicator. And to our shock we hit the road divider, lost balance and fell down, luckily nothing went wrong.

Perhaps our engineers are not using there sixth sense in desgning these types of road hazards in main highway, as they may be aware of the fact that vehicles are moving in greater speed and landing such stupid road blocks is atrocity.