Zip through the city on elevated roads

Zip through the city on elevated roads
The Times of India

Bangalore: You may, in some time, be able to zip down many of the most congested areas of the city. That’s if promises are realised.

City authorities are planning an elevated inner core ring road of 30-km length.

“A proposal for the construction of this road at a cost of Rs 1,800 crore is on the anvil,” chief minister Kumaraswamy said at the foundation-laying ceremony for the 10-lane mixed corridor to Electronics City. “This is to be taken up on PPP (public-private partnership) model,” he added.

The idea of an inner core ring road was mooted in the latest Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) proposed for Bangalore. The government now appears keen to make this too into an elevated road, considering the constraints authorities would face in making any meaningful difference on the surface roads.

Kumaraswamy said all major roads leading to IT Park (in Whitefield) are being upgraded to national highway standards with an investment of Rs 80 crore.

Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, he said, has prepared a plan for widening of 90 major arterial roads to 30 metres to accommodate six-lane traffic.

“In the first stage, 45 roads have been taken up for a detailed survey and 11 will be taken up at a cost of Rs 100 crore and completed within three months.”

He said it is his “earnest desire” to develop Bangalore into a ‘Model City’.