Flyover coming, won’t jam busy Bangalore

Flyover coming, won’t jam busy Bangalore
NHAI Promises Construction Will Not Obstruct Traffic
The Times of India

Bangalore: Yet another flyover planned. Agitated about the traffic chaos it may bring during construction? Not to worry, say the authorities.
A model for future urban construction perhaps, this marvel is a huge, four-lane flyover that will be built on a steel girder high up in the sky, even as traffic flows uninterrupted on the road 10 metres below.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has drawn this dream model for the harassed Bangalorean, who groans at the mere thought of a flyover under construction. The assurance: When the flyover takes off from Central Silk Board to Electronic city, there will be no vehicle gridlock, no jarring rides over broken road humps, but a smooth endless flow all through 18 months of project construction.
“All that is needed is planning and technology, which we have. We will ensure our software czars do not waste precious hours of foreign exchange, stuck in traffic,’’ official sources told The Times of India.

The technocrats of Electronic City are funding nearly one-third the project cost. “We need to consider them. This model of public-private partnership, will also be a blueprint for how to build a super-structure in the middle of a busy metropolis,’’ officials said.
The project will include four subways for the heavy pedestrian traffic to cross at Bommanahalli, Garvebhavipalya, Kudlu and Singasandra junctions. But Hosur Road will not be cut up, as is traditionally done: a ‘box-pushing’ technology where the subway is tunnelled in from the sides, will be adopted.

Chaos control


These are part of the tender conditions for the Rs 450-crore project.
First, Hosur Road up to Electronic City will be widened by 8.5 metres, covering the drains.
The steel girder and flyover piers will be set up in the 8.5 metres created in the middle, while traffic will flow on either side.
Service roads on either side will be extended the full length of the road and made into oneways for the construction period.
For actual construction, prefabricated slabs will be hoisted by cranes to the overhead girder, joined there by the workmen and lowered down to fit onto the piers. From March last week, till end of construction period, heavy truck traffic will be diverted from Attibele via Sarjapur-Dommasandra road, which will be upgraded.