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New Delhi, February 8 Segregated Lanes: The BRT system, earlier known as the HCBS corridor, was designed on the concept of creating dedicated lanes for commuters and pedestrians. The 14.5-km stretch will have segregated lanes for pedestrains along the service lanes, concretised lanes for cyclists, double lanes for motorists and a single lane for low-floor buses along the central verge for each side.
Footpaths: The corridor specially creates space for the pedestrian. The footpaths are constructed about six inches above the road and are marked with floor tactile tiles to guide the disabled using sticks. Bollards are built on junctions and crossings to stop motorised vehicles to use these lanes.

Hawker zone: Special resting spaces are created along the wider stretches with provisions for stationing hawkers and parking bicycles.

Auto rickshaw bays: Special spaces have been demarcated for autos along the pathway to ensure that the stationary auto, waiting for passengers to board or get off, does not obstruct the moving traffic.

Raised crossings: Each crossing leading to the service lane is marked with quartz stones and has a raised gradient of six inches (in line with the pedestrian walkway) to slow down motorised vehicles entering the residential colonies alongside.

Special street lighting: IIT and RITES have used special streetlights that will light up the walkways and the roads simultaneously. Sodium lamps of 50 LUX illumination will be used and the roads will be lit up with a yellow light while the walkways and footpath and cyclist lanes will be lit up in white.

Rainwater drainage: The drainage system has been designed in such a way that all the water collecting around the footpath and the cycle lanes will be diverted to the green spaces along the road to ensure ground water recharge. The greasy and contaminated water collecting on the road will be diverted to the main storm water line.

Bus stops: Bus stops are set up at each traffic crossing and have multiple platforms. Each bus stop can accommodate six buses. The bus stops are made of stainless steel, are disabled friendly and have ramps, keeping in with the form being used by DTC across the Capital. With the government inducting low-floor high capacity buses, the bus stops will be at the level of the bus floor to ensure easy access.

Passenger information system: Each bus stop will have plastic panels of information given in braille. With all buses eventually being monitored by a GPS system, bus stops will have systems providing information about the location of the bus.

Traffic signals and safety: While the traffic police is restructuring the traffic signal system, each junction will be marked with zebra crossings for passengers to get off and cross the roads. The bus stops will have railings upto the traffic junction to ensure that passengers use the zebra crossings only.

Road markings: Each segregated lane will be marked with a different colour and will be visible at night as well. The paints are being imported from the UK. Cat eyes and flexible orange bollards will also be used to ensure that lane segregation is followed.

source: http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Door-to-corridor/270918/#

New Delhi, February 8 Segregated Lanes: The BRT system, earlier known as the HCBS corridor, was designed on the concept of creating dedicated lanes for commuters and pedestrians. The 14.5-km stretch will have segregated lanes for pedestrains along the service lanes, concretised lanes for cyclists, double lanes for motorists and a single lane for low-floor buses along the central verge for each side.
Footpaths: The corridor specially creates space for the pedestrian. The footpaths are constructed about six inches above the road and are marked with floor tactile tiles to guide the disabled using sticks. Bollards are built on junctions and crossings to stop motorised vehicles to use these lanes.

Hawker zone: Special resting spaces are created along the wider stretches with provisions for stationing hawkers and parking bicycles.

Auto rickshaw bays: Special spaces have been demarcated for autos along the pathway to ensure that the stationary auto, waiting for passengers to board or get off, does not obstruct the moving traffic.

Raised crossings: Each crossing leading to the service lane is marked with quartz stones and has a raised gradient of six inches (in line with the pedestrian walkway) to slow down motorised vehicles entering the residential colonies alongside.

Special street lighting: IIT and RITES have used special streetlights that will light up the walkways and the roads simultaneously. Sodium lamps of 50 LUX illumination will be used and the roads will be lit up with a yellow light while the walkways and footpath and cyclist lanes will be lit up in white.

Rainwater drainage: The drainage system has been designed in such a way that all the water collecting around the footpath and the cycle lanes will be diverted to the green spaces along the road to ensure ground water recharge. The greasy and contaminated water collecting on the road will be diverted to the main storm water line.

Bus stops: Bus stops are set up at each traffic crossing and have multiple platforms. Each bus stop can accommodate six buses. The bus stops are made of stainless steel, are disabled friendly and have ramps, keeping in with the form being used by DTC across the Capital. With the government inducting low-floor high capacity buses, the bus stops will be at the level of the bus floor to ensure easy access.

Passenger information system: Each bus stop will have plastic panels of information given in braille. With all buses eventually being monitored by a GPS system, bus stops will have systems providing information about the location of the bus.

Traffic signals and safety: While the traffic police is restructuring the traffic signal system, each junction will be marked with zebra crossings for passengers to get off and cross the roads. The bus stops will have railings upto the traffic junction to ensure that passengers use the zebra crossings only.

Road markings: Each segregated lane will be marked with a different colour and will be visible at night as well. The paints are being imported from the UK. Cat eyes and flexible orange bollards will also be used to ensure that lane segregation is followed.

source: http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Door-to-corridor/270918/#

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