Put Electronic City on the fast track

Put Electronic City on the fast track
Association’s Memorandum To CM To Speed Up Road Work
The Times of India

Bangalore: On the road for three hours, just getting past the interminable traffic. To a destination that employs nearly 80,000 persons and apparently generates $4 billion exports.
Fed up with the condition of the roads leading to Electronic City, the Electronic City Association, comprising nearly 100 members, submitted a memorandum to chief minister H D Kumaraswamy on Thursday. It was necessitated by the long delays due to traffic caused by the road widening exercise that has been taken up on Hosur Road.
Explains Mohandas Pai, HR director, Infosys Technologies, “Work on widening the road has started, but the alternate roads (from Attibele to Sarjapur as also Attibele to Bannerghatta Road) has not been asphalted by the Public Works Department. So we have given a memo to the CM’s office requesting that he direct PWD to speed up the work.”
Apparently, because of these delays and snail pace traffic flow that has aggravated in the last one month, employees have become increasingly agitated and clients unhappy, say Association members.
The Association, on its own accord, apparently spends nearly Rs 4 lakh a month for 100 people who have been hired just to manoeuvre traffic. Patrolling vehicles have been deployed from 4 am to 7 am, just to ward off delays in case of accidents in the morning. Now, the association has sought governmental help.