Report from Devanahalli

Srivathsa mailed in this report from his drive to Devenahalli yesterday:

"Drove yesterday to Devanahalli on some other work. The road after Hebbal flyover is in pretty good shape. There are no real bottlenecks there - but a number of potential accident zones. The real bottlenecks are at Cauvery theatre, then the stretch along UAS or just before that. Very narrow roads with a number of right turns and intersections. Some serious de-bottlenecking needs to be done along this stretch.

Once past Hebbal - a grade separator is needed at the entry to yelahanka town. Of course a really bad accident will probably have to happen before something gets done. Then along the way there are a number of intersections where grade separators as well as pedestrian overpasses are needed. They also need to plan some elevated U-turns.

Work was happening on the trumpet interchange. No work was happening at the railway crossing close to Devenahalli- there was a skeleton of a flyover.

I also drove on NH-207 connecting Devanahalli and Hoskote. Apparently Hoskote is just 26 km from Devanhalli. This road is apparently going to become part of the STRR. There is a road connecting the east gate of the airport to this road.

Finally saw the actual airport (from a distane though). The other day - had seen it from the air when flying back from Bombay. The runway is huge and seemed to be almost finished. I hope they do put a train service sooner than later to the airport.

Let’s see… I am amazed that we actually have a 70% completed airport."