Madhavanagar RUB to be ready by month-end

Chief Minister N Dharam Singh's private residence is also located in the area.
THAT explains the urgency on this project

Madhavanagar RUB to be ready by month-end
Vijay Times

Bangalore: For motorists in the City, the road next to Nehru Nagar Circle between Seshadripuram and Madhavanagar that goes under the railway bridge has been a major traffic bottleneck.

But the joint effort of the South Western Railways and the Bangalore City Corporation (BCC) to develop the Madhavanagar Rail Under Bridge (RUB) project — two seven-metre-wide road vents — promises to ease the traffic bottleneck and make vehicular movement smoother. The BCC has completed one section of the work. It will be thrown open to the public from Seshadripuram side by Nov 20 or latest by this month end.

The work on construction of the second vent will start soon after that and is likely to be completed by January.
The Rs 2.18-crore project involves widening of the narrow bridge near Nehru Nagar Circle by adding another span to make way for four-lane traffic. The existing bridge was built in 1950 at a cost of only Rs 1.5 lakh after the formation of Kumarapark East extension.

On its part, the BCC has agreed to widen the approach road to the Kumarapark underpass. “We have already acquired 14 metres of land from private parties on the Kumarakrupa roadside for widening the road. On the other side, we have acquired a portion of land from apartment owners. This project has peculiar problems as we can't increase the height of the bridge or bring it down due to the presence of railway tracks above and heavy traffic below. However, we are gearing up to finish this project before the deadline,” said a BCC engineer.

The emergence of telephone and power cables underneath the bridge worried the officials as any damage to them would have left the highly-influential people in the area 'disconnected'. Incidentally, Chief Minister
N Dharam Singh's private residence is also located in the area. Railways went slow on the drilling and excavation work due to the presence of soft soil and break down of the drilling equipment.