Ringa Ringa Road us, The Road is full of pot holes

For the past couple of days I have been travelling to Electronic city from Cambridge layout because of official work and forced to take the Outer Ring Road (ORR) to get to the Hosur road instead of the Koramangala Inner Ring Road (IRR) route. The reason for this is obvious... In case it is not so, I shall elaborate more on this in another post! On the drive along the ORR I began to notice the humungous constructions on this stretch of road- A Multiplex, Family restaurants, A Club, Apartment blocks, The "IT-corridor", Shops etc. I still can't believe that this was the same stretch of road that used to be totally barren until about 3-4 years back the only life that existed was some shabbily constructed, ill-equipped dhabas and some small shops catering to the truck drivers passing through. True, this route is faster than the conventional route but the fact is that if the same pace of development continues for even about 2 years the outer ring road will become just another jam-packed, slow moving, heavily polluted, pot-hole filled, traffic signal ridden city road. Already some segments of this road are displaying symptoms of things to come- the stretch that cuts outside Banaswadi and Austin town in particular. This also made me recall reading a newspaper article about a proposed Peripheral Ring Road (PRR). This new ring road will connect far, flung areas of Bangalore to form a ring and will be far large than the current outer ring road. Judging the way the IRR has been reduced from a fast connection between central Bangalore and Koramangala because of large scale developments- legal and illegal to a dangerous drive at own risk road and the slowing down of the ORR which is currently underway it is not unfair to say that the proposed PRR also will suffer the same fate. The question now before us is: Where do we draw the line... er... Ring... The reason de existence for the Ring Roads themselves are being threatened because of high density developments being sanctioned instead of low and medium density that the ring roads can take... the actual purpose was of these roads was to decongest the main city from heavy commercial vehicle (HCV) traffic and promote low density, well spread developments on the side. We are repeating the same mistakes every single time and that to the scale of the mistakes keep on increasing every time! Unless we address the issues of accountability for developments taking place i.e. basically either plan for the kind of developments beforehand high density, medium density or low density and then follow it meticulously or do we allow large scale deviations and then regularise them and then keep on creating loops and further loops to the problem and then name them outer ring roads?