Work on six-lane road to international airport to start shortly

Work on six-lane road to international airport to start shortly

The Hindu

Tendering process to be completed in the next two months

# Road will facilitate high-speed traffic between city and airport
# State has notified 638.10 acres to be acquired for road


BANGALORE: Work on the much-awaited six-lane road to the international airport at Devanahalli will commence shortly. On March 3, the Government notified 638.10 acres in 18 villages to be acquired for constructing the 21-km expressway that will facilitate high-speed traffic between the city and the airport.

The expressway connecting Bangalore to the international airport at Devanahalli from the Outer Ring Road, near Horamavu, will pass through Bangalore North, Bangalore East and Devanahalli taluks in Bangalore Urban district.

Sources in the Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority (BMRDA) told The Hindu that the tendering process would be completed within the next two months, and the Rs. 400-crore project would be completed within 15 months of awarding the contract.

Tentatively, the expressway to the international airport from the Outer Ring Road would be completed by September 2008.

The international airport is likely to become operational in April 2008.

The notification follows the completion of survey, Techno-Economic Feasibility Report and fixing the alignment of the road.

Passenger traffic

The process of identifying the developer would be completed shortly.

The City Infrastructure Review Committee had decided to launch the project anticipating passenger traffic between 10 and 12 million when the international airport would become fully functional. BMRDA is the nodal agency for the project while the Karnataka Road Development Corporation Ltd. will identify the developer.

Project details

The whole project would comprise two interchanges at the start of project road near the ORR and the end of the project road near the proposed international airport approach road (21 km), one flyover of four lane bi-directional divided carriageway and around 30 vehicular-cum-pedestrian underpasses. These underpasses at all existing major and minor crossroads is to ensure connectivity and facilitate crossing of traffic and pedestrians at frequent intervals.

Besides, full cloverleaf type interchange has been proposed at the proposed peripheral road intersection along with two modern fully automatic toll plazas, high traffic management system, two fuelling stations, two truck bays and others.

Phase-1

In Phase-1, the expressway comprises four lane bi-directional divided elevated road from 0 km to two km, and further up to the airport it will be a grade six lane divided carriageway.

Phase-2

In Phase-2, additional four-lane bi-directional divided elevated road would be constructed between 0 km and two km and further, the existing six-lane bi-directional divided carriageway will be widened to eight-lane divided carriageway.