4 days ago
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If you are a commuter connected HAL Airport Road, an excessive magnitude of dust, persistent honking, and postulation snarls volition greet you astatine the Wind Tunnel Junction, arsenic underpass operation enactment has narrowed the stretch.
On either side, postulation persists for astatine slightest 400 to 500 metres and tin agelong up to 800 metres during highest hours. The concern is acceptable to worsen arsenic the civic assemblage volition soon statesman extended work. However, pedestrians are the astir vulnerable, arsenic determination is small abstraction for them to determination around.
Under the caller statement to facilitate civic works, the agelong towards Domlur has been reduced by half, and postulation from that agelong has been accommodated connected the different carriageway towards Marathahalli, which means that the width of the second agelong has besides been reduced.
As the roads person narrowed, motorists person started utilizing footpaths to navigate faster, putting pedestrians’ lives astatine risk. The footpaths are besides not maintained well.
Anisha Shekar, a regular commuter connected the road, pointed retired that the footpaths are dug up, plagued with cables, and encroached upon by operation materials. “Pedestrians person to beryllium other cautious portion walking astatine the Wind Tunnel Junction arsenic two-wheelers determination comparatively accelerated to debar getting stuck astatine the signal,” she said. “It’s a junction wherever calamity is waiting to happen,” she added.
Apart from these issues, if a pedestrian has to transverse to the different broadside of the road, the idiosyncratic has to hold astatine slightest 3 to 4 minutes for the postulation to stop. Compounding the problem, determination is nary overpass adjacent the junction.
