Bengaluru Junction Gets a Pedestrian Refuge Island After Traffic Counts
In short
- Designers Nishita Parmar and Vedanti Agarwal found far more pedestrians than vehicles used one left turn at Racecourse Junction.
- The redesign added a pedestrian refuge island and a more compact turn, cutting time spent crossing among moving vehicles.
- The work was part of the Orbital project, commissioned by BBMP and supported by the Sustainable Mobility Network.
Why the Good News Desk likes this one
The designers measured how people and vehicles actually moved before changing the layout. Students, workers and event crowds now have a place to pause mid-crossing. Published before-and-after figures were not available, so the gain rests on the documented redesign and local reporting of completion.
From The Better India
At Bengaluru’s Racecourse Junction, people crossing the road had to spend longer than necessary among moving vehicles. One turn gave cars a generous sweep of the road, leaving pedestrians to find their way through traffic. When urban designers Nishita Parmar and Vedanti Agarwal studied the junction, they discovered something surprising. Relatively few vehicles were using one left turn, while far more people needed to cross that stretch. Why, then, was so much space being given to cars? Working with principal designer Monik Shah and the team at Compartment S4 , they helped redesign the...
