6 months ago
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The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has called tenders for the abbreviated tunnel–rotary flyover task betwixt Hebbal and Mehkri Circle.
The Karnataka furniture had precocious approved the task astatine an estimated outgo of ₹2,215 crore. However, BDA has brought successful immoderate changes to the alignment of the project and the estimated outgo has present travel down to ₹1,655 crore, arsenic quoted successful the tender documents. BDA volition carnivore the outgo of the full task from its ain finances.
The task involves gathering a 2.25 km abbreviated passageway from Hebbal junction (below the flyover and the railway line) to Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University (KVAFSU) astatine a outgo of ₹1,250 crore. This passageway volition not usage passageway boring machines similar it is done for metro work, and volition alternatively usage chopped unfastened method which is utilized to physique immoderate underpass. Vehicles coming retired of the passageway volition get onto a 1.7 km agelong flyover till Mehkri Circle astatine an estimated outgo of ₹405 crore. At the cardinal junction, it volition beryllium a rotary flyover with up and down ramps towards Yeshwantpur and Jayamahal roads.
BDA added two caller loops to the notorious Hebbal flyover to easiness congestion. While this has worked, the postulation congestion has moved towards Mehkri Circle. To resoluteness this, BDA suggested a passageway but that volition besides lone propulsion the jam much towards Mehkri Circle it was felt, prompting them to physique a flyover arsenic well.
Two years deadline
Once the enactment commences, BDA wants to implicit the task successful 2 years. To fasten enactment connected the project, BDA has called seperate tenders for the passageway and the flyover and some works volition beryllium taken up simultaneously. However, however postulation volition beryllium affected and which alternate routes volition beryllium prescribed for airdrome travellers is not wide yet.
