It was just over an year ago when BBMP talked about the project - about 250 km of roads over Bangalore's storm water drains. Local papers, when covering BBMP budget today, are saying that this project is now funded. Here is a quote from TOI:
"Here’s what people can see within one year: Bangalore will see its first set of toll roads that will be built over storm water drains. Four such roads are proposed under the Swiss Challenge method (14.7 km in the budget): KH Road to Inner Ring Road of Koramangala (5.1 km); Old Madras Road to Airport Road in Challaghatta Valley (2.7 km); Airport Road to Bellandur tank in Challaghatta valley (4.2 km) and Outer Ring Road to Raja Canal STP of Hebbal Valley (2.7 km). Infrastructure major IDEB has offered to take up the project. "
Getting to see this in an year sounds like a stretch. But, interesting stuff. These would be tolled roads. No mention of tolls yet. Not sure how many exit and entry points these roads will have. No talk of dedicated Bus corridors on them. That BBMP tender last year had talked about "upto 250 km" of roads. Is there a bigger plan for 200-250 km worth of road network, or the current proposal (about 30 km) is only a piece-meal project? Last, was this part of CTTP, or is outside of that project?
So lots of questions, we should hopefully be getting the answers over next few days.
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Instead of building roads
Chennai MRTS
be careful what you wish for.
ditto thoughts
back door faces a highway?!
Anepalya Yenka comes out thru the back door in the morning with a chombu, only to be shaken seeing..passengers in a bus giving him weird looks!
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road over drain pics
Was at the vrushabhavathi valley, behind kavika on mysore road, this is the current status of the construction. This is the first road over drain(ROD)
In the first image, sorry for the quality it was early morning, it can be seen to the left the force of the river/debris..it has bent steel foundation..that was their problem..now they are working around that by diverting the waters..still a difficult job and more so this might give problems to structual engineers of handling debris along with water!
The third image has the access ramp from chord road being built and towards left of the same image is the current mysore road!
thanks for the pics - is it the same ROD project?
ROD
Last report from DH
This was planned ages ago...2005, but has been bogged down by issues..
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as reported in dec 2007:
Machines conking off
Filing work, which in layman terms refers to the erection of foundation structures, could not be carried on as the machines frequently got into a state of disrepair. Of the eight rig machines used by the contractors, only four are functioning presently. However, a source requesting anonymity told this reporter that the project was likely to be completed only the end of next year. “We have to complete 114 file foundations and we have just completed 44 as on date,” he said. “A major reason for the machines conking off is that usually the file foundation’s diameter touches 60 cm and reaches 90 cm as the maximum. But the diameter for each of these foundations touches 120 cm. This puts immense strain on the machines causing them to wear off.”
Flyover details
The top of the flyover will run to a length of 240 metres with a 5-lane unidirectional traffic. Apart from four ramps, the flyover will have an additional loop connecting KSRTC satellite bus station near Kavika. Three of these ramps will each have three lanes to permit unidirectional traffic—the 150m lengthy ramp connecting Mysore Road–Chord Road, the 135m (length) one linking Vijayanagar and the ramp ttowards the City. Towards Mysore, it would be a 2-lane ramp. The loop to KSRTC satellite bus stand would have a length of 475m.
The project has been contracted to National Projects Construction Corporation Limited (NPCCC Ltd) which has subcontracted it to URC Construction, Erode. On completion of the project, a one-way would be introduced from Gali Anjaneyaswamy temple upto the KIMCO junction and this would ease traffic congestion in a huge way, the Engineer-in-Chief said.
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eventual goal of the project is to make the chord road-mysore road junction free..let see how that works..
About vrushbhavathi itself..I used to hear from my parents that it was indeed a nice river..not too long ago!
There is another project going on at the same site which is for upgrading the valley..that atleast on time I guess!
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