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The State Cabinet connected Thursday gave administrative support for a abbreviated tunnel- elevated corridor betwixt Hebbal Junction and Mehkri Circle.
The task is estimated to outgo ₹2,215 crore. It is antithetic from the Hebbal-Silk Board (16.75 km) duplicate passageway task for which tenders are nether way. In fact, this task volition unit changes successful the duplicate passageway task arsenic well.
It whitethorn beryllium recalled that the earlier Congress authorities projected to physique a alloy flyover to decongest postulation connected Ballari Road, but had to driblet it owing to beardown absorption from civic groups.
The task was suggested by the Bengaluru Traffic Police arsenic the agelong duplicate passageway task volition not let two-wheelers and autorickshaws and truthful volition not assistance easiness postulation congestion successful areas similar Ganganagar, Sanjay Nagar, and R.T. Nagar, documents showed.
The task would lick section country postulation issues, sources said. It involves gathering a three-lane abbreviated transitory magnitude duplicate passageway from Hebbal Junction to Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries University (KVAFSU) for 2.27 km and an elevated corridor from the KVAFSU to Mehkri Circle.
A elder UDD authoritative said that Mehkri Circle would beryllium developed into a rotary interchange. “The flyover from the KVAFSU volition beryllium conscionable 1 of the flyovers that volition extremity astatine Mehkri Circle. We are readying different flyovers which volition travel and converge astatine the circle. So we are processing the cardinal junction into a rotary interchange,” the authoritative said.
This has present shifted the planned up-ramp and down-ramps to the Hebbal-Silk Board duplicate passageway task from the Mehkri Circle.
The documents showed the task would beryllium handled by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), and the outgo would besides beryllium borne by the bureau done its ain resources. Earlier estimates by Bengaluru Smart Infrastructure Ltd (B-SMILE) pegged the task outgo astatine ₹1,325 crore. That has present ballooned to ₹2,215 crore. The B-SMILE had lone planned for a passageway and did not see the flyover, the sources said.
