The Arterial Sankey Road, from Cauvery Theatre Junction to Yeshwantpur Circle Junction is going to be widened and going to lose all the green cover it has. It is going to become a major disaster given that Sankey Tank and surrounding regions cannot withstand such a large amount of vehicular pollution.
All those trees on Chowdiah Road which is close to Indian Institute of Science are going to go the way of Seshadri Road.
This is just a disaster waiting to happen to Malleswaram, Sadashivanagar and IISc. One of the oldest areas in the city is being murdered in broad daylight. Instead of concentrating on proper signals and road dividers on Sankey Road and Sir C V Raman road, it is going to be destroyed like Race Course Road was.
"On condition of anonymity, a BBMP Executive Engineer of the Road Widening Committee, said, “The entire stretch of road from the Cauvery Theatre Junction till the Yeswanthpur will be widened as part of 91 arterial roads expansion project. The Road Widening Committee has already placed the plan, as this road is the crucial connecting road to NH 4 (National Highway). Based on the priority, the road will be demarcated and widened as scheduled”.
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Sankey Road to lose trees
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This is ridiculous.
Same from me
RS, same from me - it is just ridiculous. I believe BBMP's ultimate aim is to remove the greenery of Bangalore and make it concrete jungle like Noida. PIL needs to be raised on this.
Wrong route
It must be noted Yeswantpur will soon be connected by metro so people should use that, but until then, there already is a six lane road from cauvery jn to NH4 tumkur road!!!!! People wanting to reach NH4 from cauvery jn need to go straight on bellary road to Hebbal flyover and take ring road to reach NH4. Sign boards need to indicate the same on the streets.
It must be emphasised that alternate routes and mass transport options need to be considered. I have already suggested tram-train option for these areas in my other blog here
Somebody should tame these 'engineers'
I will take this up with MSI and SWA
Hopefully, with adequate citizen participation this project should be scrapped like the Gandhi bazaar underpass that was suggested sometime back.
After the loss of Race Course Road and Seshadri Road, citizens should no longer keep quite!
Tree cutting officer
Crazy...
ASJ / SB / TS and others have already shown how traffic can be streamlined by augmenting existing infrastructure. Does BBMP know (or for that matter care to know) what would the benefit be in the end?
Ravi
Do they want to know
ASJ
www.driving-india.blogspot.com
Tree-cutting v/s Urban Ecology
My first reaction was just to wring my hands in despair...but that's not what this group is about! MC, Thanks for taking the initiative with the RWA(s) and other citizen awareness groups. Hopefully this too will go the Gandhi bazaar underpass way.
IDS has a good point... what BBMP needs is not a 'tree-cutting' officer but an adequately trained Urban Forester (wonder what the present tree-cutting officer's credentials are). A trained urban ecologist would also be better at managing BBMP's parks too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...
transmogrifier
TM
Timber mafia at work
Yellapa Reddy, for all his good intentions is powerless with this mafia. Unless civil society acts we will not even be left with Lal Bagh.
I read that the Metro is planning to acquire some portion of Lal Bagh - that is plainly illegal. It is against the Parks and Open Spaces Act.
Absolutely no accountability in BBMP
Contrast this with Chennai - which has an elected council in place and is far more effective in local urban governance.
tree v/s traffic
Temperature is going to hit 38 degrees this Summer!!
Thanks to BBMP and its road widening work, this summer the temperature is going to hit 38 degrees says the Meteorologists due to trees cutting.
http://bangalorebuzz.blogspot.com/2009/01/bengaluru-to-swelter-under-heat.html
Metro is inevitable, why is the senseless tree cutting for road widening???
We should raise voice against BBMP
Hi, A few months back the same kind of illogical tree-cutting-spree was on the WOC road for Metro work. They started bringing down all the trees on either sides of the service road, besides taking down the huge oldest trees on the main-road. I got hold of the BBMP Rangr-officers, area range-office, and the chief engineer's mobile numbers and kept on making calls everyday requesting them not to cut the 4 trees in the service road, close to my appartment. Finally they agreed and only pruned the branches.
During this process i also got to know very vaguely that these trees are put on auction. some kind of bidding happens on these trees , once they are marked for elimination. This was very disturbing to me. Its not the actual BBMP folks who may bring down these trees everywhere. Anyways my point here is it is still possible to get a favourable response provided all of us raise our voices against BBMP for not to cut trees on the Sankey road.
I am pasting here some numbers of the BBMP officers which I had. We can figure out the responsible area engineer by calling these people. Please make the calls. More the calls we make, pressure is more on them.
Thanks
-Rags
Aranya Bhavan , Bangalore APCCF Vigilance officer: 9980936471
9448919388 (BBMP ) : Mr hoobat
ct gowda : 9902069253 (range forest officer bbmp)
venkateshappa (bbmp tree officres) 9980059999 , Reference given by Mr hoobat
9448658841 ramchandra RFO (Range forest officer), reference given by Venkateshappa
9449874477 (babu-shastry) BBMP site engineer (WoC road division) ,reference given by FRP ramachandra