BMRC to take police help during work on CMH Road

BMRC to take police help during work on CMH Road

The Hindu

We cannot be held up by anybody, says V. Madhu

# CMH Road forms part of the Rs. 110-crore seven-km Reach 1
# Surveyors were chased away by people on Monday

BANGALORE: The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation (BMRC) Limited will take the help of law and order machinery when it resumes work on CMH Road.

Managing Director of the BMRC V. Madhu told The Hindu that the BMRC had the mandate of the Government to execute the Rs. 6,400-crore metro work and the State machinery could not be stopped. "When the work resumes in a few days, we will take whatever protection required," he said

Mr. Madhu said the work on the preliminary survey for a work was nearing completion when people staged a demonstration on CMH Road on Monday. (The surveyors were reportedly chased away by the people). "We can't be held up by anybody," he asserted.

He said the BMRC workers did carry out some work on Old Madras Road on Thursday. The work on CMH Road would resume soon.

It may recalled that the State Government gave the go-ahead for the BMRC to take the tracks along the CMH Road through an order passed on Wednesday last. It said there was no need to change the alignment of the Metro as demanded by the businessmen on CMH Road.

The CMH Road forms part of the Rs. 110-crore seven-km Reach 1 of the project — construction of stations and elevated structure for tracks from Mahatma Gandhi Road to Byappanahalli. The stretch will have seven stations.

The Reach 1 is part of the 33-km Railway network consisting of two corridors that connect Mysore Road to Byappanahalli (East-West Corridor) and Yeshwanthpur to K.R. Road near Banashankari Temple (North-South Corridor). Together they will have 33 stations.

The first train is expected to move by the end of 2008 on the Reach 1. The entire project is to be ready by 2011.

The frequency of the Metro trains will be every four minutes initially. This is expected to increase to three minutes by 2021.

The travel time from end to end on the east-west corridor will be 33 minutes, and on the north-south corridor 28 minutes. The system is designed for a maximum train speed of 80 kmph.