Bengaluru's TenderSURE roads become guide for global cities


Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Jun 25: In what may be regarded as a pat on the back of the Karnataka government, Bengaluru roads designed under the TenderSURE (Specification for Urban Roads Execution) project have been listed in the Global Urban Streets guide.

The guide is prepared by Global Designing Cities Initiative of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), a New York-based advocacy group on urban mobility.

According to Abhimanyu Prakash, programme manager of Global Designing Cities Initiative, St Mark’s road developed under the TenderSURE project was taken up as a case study. The data revealed that there was a 250 percent increase in the volume of pedestrians and the crossing time had reduced by three minutes. St Mark’s road was the only street in India to be listed in the Global Urban Streets guide, which is endorsed by 15 organizations and 29 cities as a new standard for transforming streets to prioritize safety, pedestrians, transit and sustainable mobility.

TenderSURE project has also been branded as the best practice by The National Institution for Transforming India, also called NITI Aayog. Roads under the TenderSURE guidelines may soon be implemented in Hubballi-Dharwad, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur and Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur.

In an interview to a newspaper, Swati Ramanathan, chairwoman of Jana Group and the brain behind the project, said: "Such detailed design and construction drawings have been issued for a municipal project for the first time. Many cities are now willing to implement this and I hope that over the next decade, we see dramatic improvement of our city roads and footpaths."

In Bengaluru, St Mark’s Road, Cunningham Road, Vittal Mallya Hospital Road, Richmond Road, Residency Road, Commissariat Road, Museum Road, Nrupatunga Road and Kempegowda Road have already been developed and 50 more roads have been announced by the government to be urbanized as per Tender Sure specifications.

Tender Sure initiative began with the understanding that the development of urban roads has been haphazard, without proper guidelines and with multiple civic agencies working multiple times separately on a single road. The road standards mandate the integration of networked services such as water, sewage, power, OFC, gas and storm water drains under the road. The design prioritises the comfort and safety of pedestrians and cyclists as well as understands the needs of street hawkers.

  

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  • Lawrence, Bangalore

    Mon, Jun 26 2017

    Tender sure is not very sure . These roads are dug up to fix cables , repair pipes etc. In adittion, the streets lights have already started to turn dark as the Bescom do not switch on the street lights after it turns dark. The plants in the hanging pots have already dried . The plants planted in on the side of the tender sure roads have already dried and not been watered. what is this tender sure all about :)

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  • Vishwa, Mangalore/ USA

    Mon, Jun 26 2017

    If you think that Siddu did it, this is not right info. It was first started by King of Bad time Mr.mallya along with presitige group. Then Janagara fought and got it for many road in Bangalore under Yeddy. Then all CM continued it.

    Any good work should continue and spread. Soon Namma Mangalore also let get.

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  • N.M, Mangalore

    Mon, Jun 26 2017

    The problem with bhakts is that they only want bjp to hog all the lime light and get credit for everything. Can you please name 5 credible projects initiated by Modi?

    P.N: - Renaming and Relaunching UPA-era schemes will NOT be considered as your achievement.

    Siddu led INC deserves all credit for TenderSURE.

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  • mahesh, Mangalore

    Mon, Jun 26 2017

    intiating projects was UPA's idea of developement.Only starting...
    It takes a Modi to finish the projects. Thats the big difference.

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  • GM, Nigeria

    Mon, Jun 26 2017

    Modi will come and put up Hindi boards and hoardings there.

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  • mahesh, Mulki

    Mon, Jun 26 2017

    concept is good.
    problem is for a normal road, it costs 2 crore per km
    for a tendersure project it costs 7.5 crore per km.
    do we have that sort of money?

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  • Vikram, Bengaluru

    Fri, Jan 05 2018

    "If you spend peanuts only monkeys are attracted" said the former Singapore PM Lee Kyuan Lee. So, if you construct cheap roads what you get is a mess that not only looks ugly but attracts filth!

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  • Rob Stan, Udupi / US

    Sun, Jun 25 2017

    Our city has 115 miles of bike (Cycle) path. Biking is a good exercise for people of all ages.

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  • Sandesh Prabhu, Mangalore

    Sun, Jun 25 2017

    Footpaths are good...no place for vehicles to move.. Blore people travel by 2 &4 wheeler...no time to walk on footpaths.

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  • Langoolacharya., Belman/Wash DC.

    Sun, Jun 25 2017

    People,
    For those who might not know...Vittal Mallya is daddy of Vijay Mallya...and grand daddy of Siddarth Mallya...

    ...JH...

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sun, Jun 25 2017

    Bengaluru is smart city to the World ...

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  • j.anata, Mangaluru / Bengaluru

    Mon, Jun 26 2017

    Unfortunately the foaming polluted lakes of Smart City Bengaluru are not covered under TenderSURE by NITI aayog & the State Govt or BBMP is not doing anything

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