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MP for Bengaluru Central P.C. Mohan has raised objections to the projected north–south passageway corridor betwixt Hebbal and Silk Board, calling it an unscientific and economically unsound task that could load taxpayers and duplicate existing infrastructure.
“With the State’s finances already stretched by payment schemes, the tunnel’s load volition yet autumn connected citizens done higher taxes, tolls, oregon diversion of indispensable funds,” Mr. Mohan said, adding that helium and his squad were compiling information and adept inputs to taxable earlier the National Green Tribunal (NGT) and the State Tender Committee.
Mr. Mohan said the task appears to person been rushed done without capable method validation, biology scrutiny, oregon integration with the city’s ongoing transport plans and urged the State authorities to retreat the connection and alternatively prioritise the city’s long-pending elevated corridor and Peripheral Ring Road (PRR) projects.
The projected tunnel, comprising 18 km of main underground agelong and 15 km of ramps, is designed astatine a extent of 35 to 40 metres, passing done Mekhri Circle, Race Course Road, Lalbagh, and Madivala, helium said, arguing that the tunnel’s alignment seems to person been decided based connected wherever onshore is available, not wherever postulation request exists.
“For instance, Mekhri Circle was chosen due to the fact that of palace and defence lands, and Lalbagh and Race Course roadworthy owed to onshore relocation proposals,” Mr. Mohan said, adding that the passageway terminates adjacent St. John’s Hospital, earlier the high-density Silk Board junction, which makes small consciousness from a transport readying perspective.
“The projected Hosur airdrome volition further summation postulation load successful the aforesaid corridor, making the existent alignment illogical and short-sighted,” helium said.
Mr. Mohan criticised the creation of the project’s scrutiny committee, which presently includes authorities engineers and a backstage advisor from Delhi. “An autarkic reappraisal indispensable beryllium conducted by neutral institutions similar IISc oregon IITs, which person the expertise and objectivity to measure specified analyzable underground works,” helium said. He besides suggested empowering the Bengaluru Metropolitan Land Transport Authority to coordinate each large mobility projects nether 1 integrated model with qualified municipality mobility experts.
