Get ready for traffic hold-ups on Mahatma Gandhi Road

Get ready for traffic hold-ups on Mahatma Gandhi Road

Staff Reporter

BMRC is building a 7-km viaduct from the cricket stadium


BANGALORE: With the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation (BMRC) occupying 10 metres of the central part of the Mahatma Gandhi Road to build a viaduct, road users will have to get ready for traffic curbs and congestion on it for about 18 months.

To begin with, BMRC is building a 7-km viaduct from the cricket stadium to Byappanahalli on Old Madras Road.

The Rs. 6,400-crore project provides for 38-km network in two corridors — one from 8th Mile on Tumkur Road to R.V. Road end and the other from Mysore Road (Remco service station) to Byappanahalli.

BMRC Managing Director V. Madhu said barricading of the road from Brigade Road Junction to Mayo Hall will begin on Saturday to earmark a stretch of 10 metres for the Metro work. Subsequently, the barricading will be extended up to Dickenson Road Junction and then up to Trinity Circle.

Mr. Madhu said BMRC will put up the girders over the pillars. Once that is done, the viaduct will occupy 2.6 metres of the road. BMRC has promised to landscape the area between the pillars, using rainwater. Rainwater falling on the viaduct will be collected in sumps under the area to be landscaped.
Restrictions

Meanwhile, the Bangalore police have imposed restrictions on parking and movement of vehicles between the Brigade Road Junction and Trinity Circle from Friday. According to a press release from Commissioner of Police Neelam Achuta Rao, parking has been banned from Cauvery Emporium to Trinity Circle on Mahatma Gandhi Road.

The police will allow two-way traffic on Commissariat Road, which is a one-way. However, the police have banned U-turn in front of Citibank on Mahatma Gandhi Road to proceed towards Viveknagar. But Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) buses can take a right turn at Mayo Hall Junction and proceed towards Viveknagar via Commissariat Road.

BMTC buses going to Kempegowda bus stand from Ulsoor (via Mahatma Gandhi Road) have to take a left turn at Trinity Circle, pass through Richmond Road, Hosmat Junction and Ashoknagar signal (Vellara Junction).

BMTC buses going to Shivajinagar bus stand from Ulsoor have to take a right turn at Trinity Circle and pass through Kensington Road, Gangadhar Chetty Road, Dhobi Ghat Road, Vengalray Junction, Kamaraj Road and Cubbon Road.

Buses bound for Shivajinagar bus stand from Viveknagar have to take a right turn at Ashirvadam Junction and pass through Museum Road, SBI Junction, St. Mark’s Road, Anil Kumble Circle and BRV Circle.

Buses going to Shivajinagar bus stand from Airport have to pass through Kensington Road, Trinity Circle, Gangadhar Chetty Road, Dhobi Ghat Road, Vengalray Junction, Kamaraj Road and Cubbon Road.

Buses going to Jayanagar from Shivajinagar have to pass through Mahatma Gandhi Statue Circle (Mahatma Gandhi Road), Siddalingaiah Junction, Kasturba Road, Vittal Mallya Road, Raja Ram Mohun Roy Road, and Lalbagh Road.