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Tender works for the 22-km East-West Tunnel Road task connecting K.R. Puram to Nayandahalli will beryllium floated soon, said Bengaluru Development Minister Krishna Byre Gowda.
“The solution to Bengaluru’s postulation congestion is broad plans, including metro networks and passageway roads, overlapped by elevated corridors,” the Minister said, addressing the media aft reviewing B-SMILE works connected Monday.
Additionally, elevated roads volition beryllium fixed priority. “Of the people of 150 km of elevated corridors crossed the city, tenders volition soon beryllium floated for 75 km of corridor works, with each elevated roadworthy ranging betwixt 2 km and 15 km,” the Minister said.
He added that elevated corridors longer than 10 km will beryllium tolled. “The superior roads volition inactive beryllium open. That is the public’s right. We are not stopping them from utilizing those roads, but if 1 needs to spell faster, tolls have to be paid. This is conscionable to easiness postulation for those who request it,” the Minister said.
Private companies volition money the projects, and the viability spread backing volition beryllium provided by the government.
Bengaluru has 1.2 crore vehicles, helium said, adding that the fig is expanding each day. “No substance however overmuch we grow the metro, radical volition inactive beryllium connected the roads. We request to supply the facilities that the radical need. We request to make large roads, high-density roads, and outer ringing roads. Along with each these, we request to identify traffic problems and supply broad solutions,” helium said.
Building flyovers oregon tunnels unsocial would not lick congestion, but would lone displacement it, the Minister said, stressing the request for solutions similar overlapping elevated corridors with passageway roads, isolated from improving metro and autobus connections, and improving the roads starring to these nationalist transport sites.
“Future challenges indispensable besides beryllium considered portion addressing existent issues,” helium said, adding that the passageway roadworthy and elevated corridor projects are “expert and research-backed solutions”.
ORR redevelopment
The Minister said discussions astir the request for the redevelopment of the Outer Ring Road (ORR) have been going on. “There is nary hesitation successful moving guardant with the project, but its timing is being considered cautiously arsenic metro operation is ongoing. If some are taken up simultaneously, radical volition look a batch of inconvenience due to the fact that of the precocious regular traffic, particularly successful the IT corridors,” helium said.
