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‘Bellary Road only option’

5 October 2007 - 11:37am — arunvishvin
It’s official. The airport expressway planned by the BMRDA to provide connectivity to Devanahalli International Airport will not be ready till 2009. Speaking to The Times Of India, PWD secretary Sudhir Krishna said the expressway project is still in its initial stages. “The Rs-1,000 crore project will take more time than stipulated. We have finalised the route and issued a preliminary notification. We are yet to finalise the consultants and after that tendering process will begin. We are hopeful that the project may be completed over 20 months. So essentially, the Bellary Road will be the only option till the expressway is completed,’’ he said. The PWD has written to the Centre for sanctioning viability gap funding for acquiring land for the project, but is yet to get a reply. On the other hand, Sudhir said the NHAI has been requested to upgrade NH-7 to handle airport traffic by constructing more underpasses, interchanges and ROBs. TOI-Bangalore 5th Oct 2007
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some updates...

tsubba - 5 Oct 2007 - 2:35pm
thanks for that post arun. the thing to ask is why started so late to begin with? that the airport would be built was known many moons ago. and they are asking NHAI now to build more ROBs? NHAI has been working on it since two years now atleast. anyways... atleast after BIAL took over the trumpet exchange, atleast that is proceeding.
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Yep

silkboard - 5 Oct 2007 - 5:19pm
Read the news this morning with disappointment. We anyway never expected this expressway to be ready on time. But no news on the connectivity from East Side - something that a DH Metro Life article talked about. Anything more in DH on that? Haven't been reading that paper for a week now.

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