Coming soon: ‘Peripheral Ring Road'

Coming soon: ‘Peripheral Ring Road'
New Indian Express

BANGALORE: The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) is all set to begin work on the much-awaited peripheral ring road.

The BDA has identified the land required for the purpose and will soon initiate acquisition procedures.

The road will be 108.96 km long and will require 3,618 acres of land in 104 villages in four taluks.

The Peripheral Ring Road was envisaged in the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP), 1995, but nothing happened in the last 10 years.

The PRR will help keep trucks and other vehicles away from the Core Business Area and traffic will become lighter in the city.

The road will run 14-22 km away from the city centre and 2.8-11.5 km from the existing Outer Ring Road. The corridor will have six lanes and intercity heavy trucks can use it.

There will be truck terminals by the roadside to enable loading and unloading of goods, without letting the vehicles into the core business area.

Some town planners had objected to the PRR running close to the Bangalore-Mysore Expressway being built by NICE.

‘‘The road built by NICE is a toll road and the PRR is toll-free. So, the PRR will follow the planned alignment,’’ BDA Commissioner M N Vidyashankar said.