Travel speed has dropped to 15 kmph during the peak hours, according to statistics of the traffic police department.
Hence upgradation of the roads is overdue, in fact.
BCCF has come out with "Project Tender SURE (Specification for Urban Road Execution)", a comprehensive guide to road building - from design to procurement of materials to execution.
"Tender SURE is intended to ensure uniformity in the standards of roads," according to Swati Ramanathan, who started Janagraha along with her husband Ramesh Ramanathan.
Adopting 'Tender SURE" helps bring in not only uniformity in road standards but also ensure coordination between various utility agencies, she said.
CII, which runs the Institute of Quality here, plans to offer a two-month technical training programme on all aspects of Tender SURE for engineers and contractors from urban local bodies.
Janagraha says the road network at present, both in Bangalore and across the state, "is completely fragmented and fractured, broken and bereft of planning, leading to ever-increasing traffic jams, potholes and accidents.
"Tender SURE tackles the cacophony of India's urban road woes - providing a systematic, disciplined way to finally address the details of design, procurement and execution of our city roads," he said.
A state government spokesperson told IANS that tender for taking up the work on these 15 roads in Bangalore will be issued shortly.
Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda was all praise for Tender SURE as "it fills a void in designing and building roads according to various specifications to meet international standards". Previous
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