I Dedicate this
post to City traffic management regarding multilane roads, they need to do
little analysis about the traffic when it is at peak hours, in which maximum
traffic flows in one direction and keeping one of the sides completely busy
whereas other side which rarely witness vehicles/traffic and this scenario can
happen at any peak hour depending on what purpose the destination serves And
specially when the destination has only one road to connect with other part of
the city. For example Roads going towards IT park generally witness the traffic
in one direction at a time i.e. in morning time traffic will completely flow
towards IT park and in evening time it will flow in opposite direction (from IT
park to home). And you generally find that road on the other side which goes in
opposite direction is less trafficked but yours is not. And you might try to
break the traffic rules to get out from traffic you stuck in.
In this case
instead of dividing lanes equally i.e. 2 lanes for one direction and rest 2
lanes for opposite direction. Allocate more lanes (here 3 lanes) to the
direction which carries maximum traffic and less lane (1 lane) to the direction
which carries less traffic hence assignment of number of lanes is directly
proportional to traffic that a side carries. The assignment of lanes to the
sides will not be fixed rather needs to be shifted to other side when it has
maximum traffic. To make it practical, side carrying less traffic can be
divided further temporarily (for example by rope) and hence one of the divided
part can be used by the traffic which flows in opposite direction.
Just for example
those who live in pune or have been in pune will be very well aware of the
traffic from hinjewadi chowk to wipro circle which generally witness only sided
traffic at office timings. So why not the one side which witnesses higher
traffic gets more no. of lanes (by dividing temporarily with rope or something)
than the one which witnesses less traffic. There might be other such roads
carrying traffic in one side only so why not make them one sided.
Thanks for
reading, Any comments are welcome.