New Year promises to ease traffic woes

New Year promises to ease traffic woes
DH News Service,Bangalore:
If all goes well, Bangaloreans will have some relief on the Citys nerve-wracking roads. The new year promises a number of projects to make life easier...

If all goes well, Bangaloreans will have some relief on the City’s nerve-wracking roads. The new year promises a number of projects to make life easier. One project every month. That’s what the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) promises. The first three months of 2008 alone will see three underpasses.

Governor Rameshwar Thakur came up with a rather tall order on Monday. “We are working at god speed to bring Bangalore on par with the great cities of the world. I am confident that if things move faster in this direction, by 2010 or even earlier Bangalore will be truly a city of the future,” he said. Thakur’s promise came at a function to dedicate the underpass at the Banaswadi-Ramamurthynagar Junction.

The coming year should see the opening of a clutch of grade separators. One will be functional at Marathahalli in January, followed by the Magadi Road-West of Chord Road and Magadi-Mysore Road grade separators.
“By the end of March, three grade separators will be ready and we will dedicate one every month,” BDA Commissioner M K Shankarlinge Gowda said.

According to him, work on the two new flyovers at Ibnur and Agram was progressing well and the projects would be dedicated to the public on schedule. He also announced that work on BDA’s five new mega layouts would commence soon. With the opening of the Rs-17.46-crore underpass at the Banaswadi-Ramamurthynagar Junction, motorists on the Outer Ring Road can heave a sigh of relief.

The underpass, that connects Hebbal with K R Puram, has been completed more than 18 months after the work had commenced.