Flyover creates new problems for school, college students

Flyover creates new problems for school, college students
New Indian Express

BANGALORE: It is just a couple of months since the flyover at National College junction opened, and its worst victims are the 5,000 students studying in the schools and colleges there.

When the National School opened in 1917, the footpath facing North Road was 20 feet wide, and it has now shrunk to 2 feet after the flyover came up.

College students complain that the idea of the flyover was to facilitate quick movement of vehicles, but most vehicles, including buses, avoid the flyover to pass through the narrow stretch under it, and facing the college entrance.

Continuous traffic flow makes it difficult for students coming on North Road to enter the college through its main gate.

Some students suggest that the traffic police ban movement of buses, lorries and cars so that students can use the road as before.

The vehicles can take the flyover and thus help students, they suggest.

“Our school has been around for the last 90 years but the flyover has come up only now. Students in the age-group of 5 to 17 years study here, and they never expected the road in front of the college would turn so messy,” an old student of National College said.

LAB TEST

A science student suggested that testing the apparatus in the laboratories for dust would reveal to what extent vehicles using the road are affecting the college. Dust has accumulated on lab equipment and become so thick that you can measure it in inches, he said.

Several citizens had protested when the flyover project was proposed. But the BMP went ahead with it, ignoring protests.

Vehicles coming on North Road take the stretch in front of National College to reach Visveswarapuram through AN Krishna Rao Road, and that is something students want to end.