Metro: bad roads hit motorists

Metro: bad roads hit motorists

Staff Reporter
BANGALORE: Bangalore Metro has been in news for tree felling over the past few weeks.

This time around, people who live and work near the construction site on Mahatma Gandhi Road have raised their voice against Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL).

They claim that moving around in areas near the construction site has become a challenge.

“It is terrible. Even going to the opposite side of the road takes ages,” said Vilas V. Alur, Manager of KBM’s Computer World, a store on Mahatma Gandhi Road. It is just as risky to walk on the non-existent footpaths on the stretch.

“Being an area with prominent hotels and offices, many VIPs frequent the area. The state of the roads in this part of town paints a bad picture. Bad roads and increasing traffic have made life for motorists and pedestrians hell,” said S. Uday Kumar of Karthik Group of Companies, adjoining the Oberoi Hotel.

However, a spokesperson for BMRCL reiterated that the corporation had taken steps to ensure that neither motorists nor pedestrians were affected by the work. “The claim that people are not able to cross the road is unfounded,” he said.