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A corporate of citizens, students, and civilian nine organisations connected Saturday submitted a elaborate practice to M. Maheshwar Rao, Chief Commissioner of Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), opposing the Bengaluru Tunnel Road Project and demanding the task beryllium halted immediately.
The practice raised concerns implicit the project’s biology impact, deficiency of technological basis, immense nationalist expenditure, and the lack of meaningful nationalist consultation.
The practice argued that the projected passageway roadworthy was improbable to resoluteness Bengaluru’s postulation congestion and cited autarkic studies that recovered that wide nationalist transport systems specified arsenic buses and metro networks tin transportation importantly larger numbers of commuters astatine a fraction of the cost.
They further stated that the task prioritises backstage vehicles portion posing superior ecological risks, including imaginable disruption to groundwater systems and harm to Lalbagh Botanical Garden. They besides contend that the task had bypassed statutory bodies and had drawn disapproval from mobility experts for allegedly moving contrary to Bengaluru’s Climate Action Plan and broader municipality mobility objectives.
The practice was signed by implicit 1,000 citizens crossed the city. The run was jointly organised by All India Students’ Association, Fridays For Future, and Collective.
