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The opening of the Hosakerehalli flyover connected the Outer Ring Road (ORR) seems similar an accomplishment of the metropolis successful 2025. Like erstwhile years, a Bengalurean’s wishlist for 2026 would decidedly diagnostic completion of the much-delayed Ejipura flyover and the 1 connected Doddaballapur Road, Yelahanka.
Ejipura flyover
The 2.38-km Ejipura flyover, planned to decongest the Intermediate Ring Road successful Koramangala, stuck since 2019, yet picked up gait successful 2025, with conception launching and span installation showing dependable advancement betwixt June and December. However, the civic assemblage is yet to wide the project’s large and perennial hurdle: onshore acquisition.
On the ground, conception launching works are presently successful afloat plaything betwixt Pier 8 and 20, which volition proceed until mid-January, according to engineers contiguous astatine the site. Further, operation of ramps adjacent the Ejipura junction is nether way, causing large postulation disruption during highest hours.
On the different hand, the task requires the acquisition of 3 onshore parcels, of which 2 are authorities land. The large hurdle has been the St. John’s Medical College and Hospital land, the lawsuit for which is presently earlier the court. Officials accidental the process volition prime up successful January, but the deadline appears acold from world owing to the complications involved.
“St. John’s Medical College and Hospital onshore is indispensable due to the fact that we request a portal beam astatine that peculiar constituent arsenic per our plan diagrams. We person a ramp planned astatine that location,” an technologist overseeing the task told The Hindu.
According to the officer, the deadline whitethorn beryllium pushed further if the lawsuit colony and acquisition are delayed. However, Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) sources are optimistic astir completing the acquisition process by the extremity of January.
Construction successful advancement astatine the Yelahanka to Doddaballapur flyover successful Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: ALLEN EGENUSE J.
Meanwhile, M. Maheshwar Rao, Chief Commissioner, GBA, has acceptable June, 2026, arsenic the deadline to implicit the project, which appears excessively optimistic astatine this point. However, if everything goes arsenic planned, conception launching and span installation volition beryllium completed by March, portion ramp operation whitethorn proceed until May. It whitethorn instrumentality different period to implicit insignificant works.
The Ejipura junction is simply a gateway to eastbound Bengaluru for residents of southbound and southeast Bengaluru. Traffic from Koramangala, BTM Layout, and HSR Layout uses the Intermediate Ring Road (IRR) to scope Indiranagar, making the Ejipura jJunction a important link.
Madhav Punyaslok, a Koramangala nonmigratory who uses the IRR to scope Indiranagar each day, said the junction takes astatine slightest six to 10 minutes to cross, particularly for those coming from Sony Signal.
“As operation has narrowed the lane adjacent the junction, it takes a batch of time. However, it is simply a motion that shows advancement connected the project. Once the operation is over, the IRR volition spot a melodramatic diminution successful traffic,” helium noted.
The tract technologist told The Hindu that ramp operation astatine Ejipura junction volition beryllium completed by the extremity of January.
Yelahanka flyover
While the overmuch delayed Ejipura flyover has sparked a big of jokes, memes and chatter, resulting successful continuous monitoring of the project, the flyover connected Doddaballapura Road, Yelahanka, is little talked about.
The enactment connected the abbreviated 1.8-km agelong flyover connected Doddaballapur Road betwixt Yelahanka constabulary presumption and BWSSB junction began successful 2022, with a deadline of 18 months for enactment to beryllium completed. But the enactment is dragging connected adjacent now.
In June, 2025, the GBA Chief Commissioner, past heading the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), inspected ongoing works and acceptable a caller deadline of December, 2025, for works to beryllium completed. However, it is obscurity adjacent completion.
While astir of the pillars person been erected, enactment is connected to instal the girders successful place. Construction of the ramp has begun astatine Sandeep Unnikrishnan Road and girders are yet to beryllium placed astatine the different end. Sources successful GBA said the caller deadline for the task is May, 2026.
The flyover is designed to supply a signal-free commute connected Doddaballapur Road. But residents of the country accidental the prolonged operation has created much problems than the postulation signals and adjacent question the request for this flyover.
“We suffer astir an hr successful the greeting and evening combined. Weekends are adjacent worse. Actually, we bash not recognize wherefore this flyover is needed astatine all,” said Varadaraj M., a nonmigratory of the area.
A elder civic authoritative said that enactment connected the flyover was inordinately delayed arsenic it was being carried retired lone during the night. “This is simply a State road and determination is nary work road. So we cannot divert traffic. There were immoderate hurdles successful onshore acquisition and shifting utilities, which person been cleared now,” the authoritative said.
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