Assessment report for NMT strategy at Big Bazaar Road in Town Hall Area, Coimbatore

Assessment report for NMT strategy at Big Bazaar Road Town Hall Area, Coimbatore July 2019

In partnership with

Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation

Implemented by

Prepared by

TEAM Project lead: Vidhya Mohankumar Project support: Srivardhan Rajalingam, Bezylal Praysingh, Shourya Dubey, Khushali Haji

CONTENTS

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STREET STRUCTURE Context - City and neighbourhood Connections to wider networks Block structure Street Character and Visual Experience Ground floor uses Building frontages & access Building heights Orientation

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STREET LAYOUT Street right-of-way configuration Traffic speed Intersection study Pedestrian movement Public transport Parking Emergency and service vehicles

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STREET DETAIL Utilities Planting Materials

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STAKEHOLDER MAPPING Age and gender mapping Activity mapping Vendors on Big Bazaar Road User group analysis SCOPE FOR INTERVENTION SWOT analysis What can Big Bazaar Road be?

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STREET STRUCTURE Context - City and neighbourhood Connections to wider networks Block structure Street Character and Visual Experience Ground floor uses Building frontages & access Building heights Orientation

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At the city scale, Big Bazaar Road is located in the Town Hall Area, named after Coimbatore Town Hall, a neo-classical municipal building built in 1892 in honour of Queen Victoria.

The Town Hall area also forms the core city area and is geographically located in the southern end of the metropolitan area.

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Context Neighbourhood scale At the neighbourhood scale, Big Bazaar Road is located west of the Coimbatore railway station and east of the city’s commercial hub. In terms of its urban structure, it is a compact mixed use neighbourhood and this is also the reason why it has retained its importance despite the city growing outwards in the northern direction from this core. It is also home to the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation, Public Works Department, District Library and Town Hall.

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Office of the city Commissioner of Police

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Coimbatore Railway Police Station

Corporation Parking Lot Clock Trichy Tower Road

Government Medical College & Hospital C.S.I Christ Church

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Valankulam Govt. Higher Secondary School

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Ukkadam Fish Market

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Connections to wider networks Big Bazaar Road serves as the shortest connecting spine between the Coimbatore Railway Station and the city’s commercial/ trade district and is hence a primary arterial road in the city’s street network.

However, over the years some of the traffic volume crossing east-west through Big Bazaar Road has been dispersed onto the Ukkadam Sungam Bypass road which runs almost parallel to Big Bazaar Road in the southern side. This is especially the case for commuters who may not have a need to come to the core city areas but are moving towards Ukkadam or other neighbourhoods in the south-western side of the city.

Girls Higher Secondary school

Sub Register Office TK Market

Big Bazaar Road

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Office of the city Commissioner of Police

Coimbatore Head Post Office

Coimbatore Corporation Girls Hr. Sec. School

Corporation Parking Lot Clock Trichy Tower Road

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Valankulam Govt. Higher Secondary School

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Big Bazaar Road is located in the core city area of Coimbatore, an area that is characterized by its fine grain urban fabric with a highly permeable street network facilitating several alternate routes for movement in and out of the neighbourhood.

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Victoria Coimbatore Bhura Town Hall City Market Municpal Corporation

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St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Latin Cathedral

Coimbatore Junction St. Michael’s Railway Station Matriculation School St. Michael’s Higher Secondary School Presentation Convent

Carnatic Cinemas Arulmigu Koniamman Temple

PWD Campus

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Good Shepherd High School

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Manba Ul Uloom Higher Secondary School 13

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Street Character and Visual Experience Big Bazaar Road has several prominent visual markers that lend themselves to the legibility of the street.

Clock Tower from Junction

Arulmigu Koniamman Temple

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Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

Easwaran Kovil St. (Shopping Street)

District Library (artwork by ST+ART) 15

Street Character and Visual Experience In addition, both sides offer a very diverse walking environment that shifts rapidly within the 500 metre stretch that is Big Bazaar Road.

Walking is also made easy by the presence of sidewalks that are at least 2.5 metres on both sides.

Along Clock Tower Side

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Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

Along Town Hall Side

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NAWAB HAKIM ROAD ZAAR BIG BA

Town Hall

The study and intervention plans for Big Bazaar Road presented in this report is the stretch measuring approximately 500 metres with the Clock Tower on one end and the Town Hall on the other end.

This stretch forms one side of a triangular block with Raja Street and Nawab Hakim Street.

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Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

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Clock Tower

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Ground floor uses Percentage distribution of ground floor uses 79%

Types of commercial retail 23

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Clothes / Shoes / Accessories

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The programming of the ground floor plane along Big Bazaar Road is dominated by commercial building uses especially on the Clock Tower side of the street. A further classification of commercial uses reveals a higher percentage of clothing and accessories based retail as well as food and beverage outlets. This becomes a draw for pedestrian traffic along this stret.

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Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

Legend Commercial

15%

2%

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Institution Public

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Medical

Showroom/ Exhibition

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Religious

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General Electronic/ Jewelry Electrical stores

and Beverage

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Types of Commercial Retail Shops

Shoes/Clothes/Accessories Shops

Chemist Store and Jewellery Store 22

Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

Showroom/ Exhibition Space

Food and Bevarage Shops and Medical Store 23

Building frontages & access

Stretch A Number of Pedestrian Entry Points: 11 Number of Vehicular Entry Points: 4

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Stretch

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Stretch B Number of Pedestrian Entry Points: 45 Number of Vehicular Entry Points: 1 24

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Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

Street elevation of Stretch B

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Legend Pedestrian Entry Vehicular Entry

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Building frontages & access Stretch A is comprised mainly of institutional buildings with large plot areas and therefore has a lower frequency of pedestrian entry points. The large plots however have parking within them and therefore all the properties on this stretch have a vehicular entry point.

The large plot configuration on this stretch also entails stretches with compound walls between entry gates that allow for other activities such as vending, bus stops and pause points for pedestrians.

Institutional buildings on stretch A

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Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

In contrast, stretch B has smaller plot configurations for commercial uses and hence many pedestrian entry points very close to each other. Most often, the entire frontage of the plot is a storefront or counter for sales and this results in no opportunties for any stationery activities to take place between any two entry points.

Retail stores on stretch B

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Building Heights 42 buildings front the two sides of Big Bazaar Road 40.5%

38.2%

Ground floor

Ground + 1

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In terms of massing, close to 80% of the buildings on Big Bazaar Road are not more than 2 storeys tall. Coupled with the wide rightof-way of the street, the level of enclosure is not so intimate as the other streets in the neighbourhood. Given that this stretch is also home to the Town Hall and major public buildings, it is distinctively different and indicative of a more stately street character.

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ROAD

Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

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15% Ground + 2

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Orientation 8 am on 19th July 2019

2 pm on 19th July 2019

Big Bazaar Road’s orientation is the reason there is very less shading from the buildings on the street; the street runs in the east west direction. As revealed by the shade analysis, 4 PM is the only time when the buildings cast a shadow on the footpath on the Clock tower side of the road. Also, since the building heights are 30

Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

10 am on 19th July 2019

4 pm on 19th July 2019

also mostly ground or ground + 1 floors high, there is less chance of shading the entire right-of-way even at this time of the day.

There is hence a higher need for trees on the street for providing shade to its users.

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STREET STRUCTURE Context - City and neighbourhood Connections to wider networks Block structure Street Character Ground floor uses Building frontages & access Building heights Orientation

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STREET LAYOUT Street right-of-way configuration Intersection study Traffic speed Pedestrian movement Public transport Parking Emergency and service vehicles

Street right-of-way configuration Foot path and Bus shelter

Bus lane

Right of Way 18 to 21 m Big Bazaar Road measures approximately between 18 to 21 metres at various points. While it is a one-way street, generous and almost continuous sidewalks on both sides are a huge plus point for this street from a walkability perspective.

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Median

Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

Vehicular lane 1

Vehicular lane 2

On-street Parking

Foot path

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Intersection study There are two intersections that mark the study stretch of Big Bazaar road and both are signalized.

The intersection outside Town Hall, referred to in this report as the Town Hall junction, is the point where the two one way roads cross each other i.e. Big Bazaar Road and Nawab Hakim Road.

The intersection outside the Clock Tower, referred to in this report as the Clock Tower junction, is a more complex intersection as this

NAWAB HAKIM ROAD Town Hall Junction

Town Hall

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Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

is where Big Bazaar Road changes from being a two-way road to a one- way road. It also channels one-way traffic from Raja Street onto Big Bazaar road at this intersection.

There is a significant volume of steady traffic that cuts through both these junctions as Big Bazaar Road is the shortest route from the railway station to the core city commercial area.

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Clock Tower

Clock Tower Junction

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Traffic speed

Although there is on-street parking along one side of the street and continuous pedestrian movement, the one-way traffic arrangement results in vehicular speeds of over 30 km/ hr especially during offpeak times. This is a matter of concern because in the absence of safe crossing points, the risk of pedestrian fatalities can rise exponentially with collision speeds beyond 30 km/ hr.

30 km/h

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Car

40 km/h Two- Wheeler

35 km/h Auto Rickshaw

Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

25 km/h

4 km/h

Public Bus

Pedestrian

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Pedestrian movement At Town Hall Junction Towards Oppanakara Street

36% 64%

Towards Railway Station

12:29 to 12:39 Total Count: 342

44.%

37% 63%

56%

16:01 to 16:11 Total Count: 224

18:01 to 18:11 Total Count: 305

NAWAB HAKIM ROAD ZAAR BIG BA Town Hall Junction

A rapid assessment of pedestrian volume during peak and off-peak times revealed a broad pattern of movement along Big Bazaar Road i.e. a high volume of pedestrians come into the Town Hall area during the day and leave the neighbourhood in the evening 40

ROAD

Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

At Clock Tower Junction 27%

30%

52%

70%

12:20 to 12:30 Total Count: 325

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48%

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15:58 to 16:08 Total Count: 279

43% 73%

16:53 to 17:03 Total Count: 459

57%

18:00 to 18:10 Total Count: 372

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Clock Tower Junction

indicating a high volume of floating population. This can be attributed to the presence of large number of schools, offices and the city’s oldest commercial core in this area.

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Public transport Big Bazaar Road has 9 bus shelters along the Town Hall side of the street and is a major bus route which high bus route density. Buses heading towards various neighbourhoods of Coimbatore pick up passengers heading home from schools and workplaces in the vicinity. On working weekdays, during the evening rush hour i.e. 4 to 7 PM, each of the 9 bus shelters is filled with close to 100 people.

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Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

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Public transport Big Bazaar Road being a one-way, the bus traffic on this road too is unidirectional. Raja Street which adjoins Big Bazaar Road at the Clock Tower Junction serves as the drop-off point for passengers arriving into the Town Hall area.

As a result, peak bus volume is high on Raja Street in the mornings and correspondingly high on Big Bazaar street in the evenings.

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Town Hall Junction

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Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

Public buses

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Directional volume of buses Title at Clock Tower Junction

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Vidhya Govt

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Legend Bus shelters

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Parking ~316 vehicles parked on Big Bazaar Road as recorded on 4th July 2019

289 Two-wheelers constituted more than 90% of parked vehicles and also occupied close to 90% of the street length. Also, Stretch A has a continuous line of parking as compared to stretch B.

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Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

Legend

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2 Wheeler 4 Wheeler Auto Rickshaw

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Parking Stretch A has • Less on-street parking • More vehicular entry points • 9 bus stops/shelters • More vendors as compared to stretch A

Stretch A

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Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

Stretch B has • More on-street parking • More pedestrian entry points • Many commercial retail units in narrow plots • Less vendors

Stretch B

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Emergency and service vehicles There are no clear lane demarcations for emergency vehicles on Big Bazaar Road.

There also appeared to be no regulated zones and timings for loading and unloading of vehicles servicing businesses along Big Bazaar Road.

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Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

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STREET STRUCTURE Context - City and neighbourhood Connections to wider networks Block structure Street Character and Visual Experience Ground floor uses Building frontages & access Building heights Orientation STREET LAYOUT Street right-of-way configuration Traffic speed Intersection study Pedestrian movement Public transport Parking Emergency and service vehicles

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STREET DETAIL Utilities Planting Materials

Utilities 15 street light poles 44 utility poles 2 electric distribution boxes 1 transformer

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Legend Street Lights

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EB Box Post Box

Utility Poles

Trash Bins

Air Vent

Transformer

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Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

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Planting While there are no trees within the street right-of-way, several mature trees exist within the compond walls of public buildings along Big Bazaar Road.

These trees with their large canopies provide much needed respite from the heat for pedestrians and especially those waiting at the bus stops along the street.

NAWAB HAKIM ROAD ZAAR BIG BA

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Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

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Materials In terms of the material palette for the streetscape of Big Bazaar Road, except for the carriageway which is uniformly asphalt, the sidewalks are comprised of several material compositions. As many as 4 different tile pavers were spotted within a 500 metre stretch.

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Asphalt

Concrete

Anti-skid Ourdoor Tiles

Outdoor Tiles

Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

Cast in Situ Concrete (Curb)

Cast in Situ Concrete (Median)

Outdoor Tiles

Paver Block

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STREET STRUCTURE Context - City and neighbourhood Connections to wider networks Block structure Street Character and Visual Experience Ground floor uses Building frontages & access Building heights Orientation STREET LAYOUT Street right-of-way configuration Traffic speed Intersection study Pedestrian movement Public transport Parking Emergency and service vehicles STREET DETAIL Utilities Planting Materials

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STAKEHOLDER MAPPING Age and gender mapping Activity mapping Vendors on Big Bazaar Road User group analysis

Age and gender mapping At Town Hall Junction At 18:10

Towards Oppanakara Street Towards Railway Station

At 16:20

Towards Oppanakara Street Towards Railway Station

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1 Male Child

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10 27 Female Senior Citizen

Female Adult

Female Child

Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

At Clock Tower Junction At 16:10 Towards Oppanakara Street Towards Railway Station At 12:50 Towards Oppanakara Street Towards Railway Station

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Clock Tower Junction

Towards Railway Station

The age and gender mapping at Big Bazaar Road was conducted at two points- one near the Town Hall and another near the Clock Tower. There were three recordings at the Town Hall and two recordings at the Clock Tower. All recordings were conducted on a weekday.

All recordings revealed that male and female adults formed the majority on the street. This was followed by male senior citizens and female senior citizens. During weekdays, the start and end of school sessions brought a large number of children to the street but at all other times, children were mostly absent on the street.

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Activity mapping Although there is high turnover of pedestrian traffic on Big Bazaar Road, there is very less variation in the stationery activities on the street. Most people who were spotted on the street were waiting for transport or were resting while they waited to enter an office, restaurant or temple.

Bus stand being used for shade

Homeless lady sleeping on the edge of footpath 64

Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

Vending and seating against the compound wall

Crowd waiting at the bus stop 65

Vendors on Big Bazaar Road Vendors flock to pedestrian hotspots and are therefore a sign of a walkable neighbourhood. With sufficiently wide sidewalks and high pedestrian volume through the day, Big Bazaar Road has a fare share of vendors especially along the compound walls outside Town Hall, CCMC and PWD offices.

NAWAB HAKIM ROAD ZAAR BIG BA

The higher concentration of vendors along the Town hall side of the street is also because the stretch along the Clock tower is comprised of narrow plots with continuous building access points and thus is non-conducive for vendors to locate themselves.

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Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

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Primary user groups

Working Population (Govt. Offices)

Office Visitors (Government)

Tertiary user groups

Who is using Big Bazaar Road?

And why?

Secondary user groups

User group analysis

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Students

Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

Shopkeepers

Vendors

Homeless People

Shoppers

Cinema Visitors

Temple Visitors 69

User group analysis How does Big Bazaar Road get used temporally by user groups?

Stakeholder

Shopkeepers

Vendors

Working Population (Govt. Offices)

Homeless People

Shoppers

Students

Temple Visitors

Office Visitors (Government)

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Cinema Visitors

6-7 am

7-8 am

8-9 am

9-10 am

10-11 am 11-12 am

12-1 pm

1-2 pm

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2-3 pm

Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

Timeline (Weekday) 3-4 pm

4-5 pm

5-6 pm

6-7 pm

7-8 pm

8-9 pm

9-10 pm

10-11 pm 11-12 pm

12-1 am

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STREET STRUCTURE Context - City and neighbourhood Connections to wider networks Block structure Street Character and Visual Experience Ground floor uses Building frontages & access Building heights Orientation STREET LAYOUT Street right-of-way configuration Traffic speed Intersection study Pedestrian movement Public transport Parking Emergency and service vehicles STREET DETAIL Utilities Planting Materials STAKEHOLDER MAPPING Age and gender mapping Activity mapping Vendors on Big Bazaar Road User group analysis

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SCOPE FOR INTERVENTION SWOT analysis What can Big Bazaar Road be?

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Strengths

Weaknesses

• Full range of building uses • Good mix of public and private buildings • Presence of strong identity markers • High volume of pedestrians resulting in a safe street environment • Mature trees on the edge of public building complexes offering shade to the street

• Continuous on-street parking taking up street ROW • Insufficient bus shelters for waiting passengers • No shade on Clock Tower side of the street • No speed control measures • Less Frequency of Buses

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Opportunities

• Existing conditions suitable for NMT infrastructure inclusion with minimal intervention • Good age and gender mix allows for diverse programming on the street

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Threats

• Very high traffic volume during peak hours • Unruly and unsafe bus boarding and deboarding • No safe crossings for pedestrians • High vehicular speeds

What can Big Bazaar Road be?

After a preliminary assessment, the nature of possible interventions on Town Hall Road have been conceptualized under two types-

• Tactical Urbanism interventions and • Permanent interventions The concepts are presented in the subsequent spreads as ‘mood images’ and address several factors that are being considered to enable the successful implementation of NMT infrastructure along the stretch. Some of the interventions may be specific to the stretch under consideration while some may be replicable across a wider network at the neighbourhood scale.

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Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

AN NMT ROADMAP FOR COIMBATORE Phase 1 • Express existing modes of movement that are - Promoted - Provided for - Expressly permitted - Neither expressly permitted nor expressly prohibited - Expressly prohibited • Express existing street types in terms of the above modes of movement, and assumptions about speed and transit orientation, and allowable frontage access • Express existing road hierarchy explicitly in terms of arteriality and access constraint in terms of constitutional archetypes (for individual route types and the whole hierarchy). This exercise can promote thought on what types are actually being used, how and why • Express existing land use compatibility and urban design relationships Phase 2 • Switch priority of arteriality to public transport • Enforce speeds to meet requirements of street and junction type • Legislate for speciation of vehicle category, to split the car into two or more classes • Provide streets and lanes for diversity of modes (human-powered streets, streets for clean/ compact vehicles, slow streets etc.)

• Apply network coarsening for fossil-fuelled modes • Apply land use regulation (or liberalization) with respect to street types Phase 3 • Ban unclean vehicles from urban areas altogether. There will have been sufficient time for people to get used to choosing appropriate alternatives.

• Weed out unnecessary regulations of zoning, planning etc.

Source: Dr. Stephen Marshall, Streets and Patterns, Spon Press, 2005.

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A SAFE AND FUN STREET FOR PEDESTRIAN CROSSING

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TACTICAL URBANISM INTERVENTION

A STREET WITH EQUITABLE RIGHT-OF-WAY DISTRIBUTION FOR ALL USERS

TACTICAL URBANISM INTERVENTION

What can Big Bazaar Road be?

Source: humancenteredcities.com

Source: Tactical Urbanism Book, Volume 4

PERMANENT INTERVENTION

Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

PERMANENT INTERVENTION

Source: Billings Jackson Design

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A STREET WITH EFFICIENT INTERSECTION DESIGNS

TACTICAL URBANISM INTERVENTION

A STREET WITH TRAFFIC CALMING TO ENSURE SAFETY FOR ALL

TACTICAL URBANISM INTERVENTION

What can Big Bazaar Road be?

PERMANENT INTERVENTION

PERMANENT INTERVENTION

Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

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A STREET WITH ADEQUATE AND ENGAGING BUS SHELTERS

TACTICAL URBANISM INTERVENTION

A SHADED STREET TO ENSURE A PHYSICALLY COMFORTABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS FROM THE ELEMENTS OF WEATHER

TACTICAL URBANISM INTERVENTION

What can Big Bazaar Road be?

PERMANENT INTERVENTION

Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

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A STREET WITH MANAGED PARKING

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A STREET WITH VISUALLY APPEALING UTILITIES

TACTICAL URBANISM INTERVENTION

What can Big Bazaar Road be?

PERMANENT INTERVENTION

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Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

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A STREET WITH WELL-DESIGNED VENDOR KIOSKS

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A STREET WITH AN APPROPRIATE MATERIAL PALETTE

TACTICAL URBANISM INTERVENTION

What can Big Bazaar Road be?

PERMANENT INTERVENTION

PERMANENT INTERVENTION

Big Bazaar Road, Coimbatore

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What can Big Bazaar Road be?

A VIBRANT STREETSCAPE THAT IS DISTINCTIVE LIKE THE TOWN HALL AREA ITSELF AND IS CAPABLE OF ACCOMMODATING THE NEEDS OF ALL ITS USERS.

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