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Written By tsubba - 16 December, 2007

BMIC Bangalore Infrastructure

According to The Hindu, Governor Rameshwar Thakur convened a high-level meeting on execution of the BMIC project at the Raj Bhavan on Saturday, Dec 15th 2007. Baba Kalyani, chairman of the Kalyani Group of companies, called on the Governor and urged the government to allot land for the project as per the framework agreement as early possible for early completion of the project. According to ToI(Dec 16, 2007), the Governor was keen on knowing obstacles facing the first phase of the project and is reported to have asked to give in writing the land required for completing the peripheral and link roads. ToI also reports that the governor had filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court seeking time to take a re-look at the project.

Image edited from a drawing on ESG's site. Well, the NICE site has no information at all.



BMIC Phase-I Bottlenecks
According to ToI Dec 16,2007 these will be included in NICE’s written reply to the governor.

Peripheral Road 
41 km Between NH-7 & NH-4

Link Road 
9.1 km taking off from SH 17 Kavika, and linking the expressway
Between 8.00 km and 9.00 km near Bannerghatta Road junction (P2)
At 0 to 0.6 km, linking expressway and Mysore Road near Byatarayanapura and Divitigeramanahally village. Between 15.4 km and 16.0 km near Kanakapura Road junction (P3)
At 1.4 km, BBMP yet to give approval for diversion at ring road and integrating bridge and ramps across Outer Ring Road (ORR). Pending for one-and-a-half years. Between 23.4 km and 24.2 km near Mysore Road junction (P5)
Between 33.6 km and 33.8 km near Magadi Road junction (P6)
Between 2.6 km and 2.9 km near Hosakerehalli.

At 5.4 km, where alignment in BWSSB water pipeline has to be shifted, for which NICE paid Rs 77 lakh

Between 7.80 km and 8.30 km needed near Hemmigepura village for link road.
Environmental Violations
ESG has been pursuing alleged environmental violations by NICE. Here is an article by Leo Saldhana of ESG in the May 2007 edition of Indian Architect and Builder:  A nice road goes dangerously off-course. ESG website also hosts a bunch of maps on the project. 



Framework Agreement
There are two agreements: 1) 1997 Original Framework Agreement, signed during JH Patel’s term, and 2) 2002 Agreement signed during SM Krishna’s term. HC & SC want the project to be implemented in letter and in spirit according to the April 1997 Framework Agreement. You can read about this framework mess here.



Meanwhile, Ring Road ge BYPASS, Kheni ge Pheni!!




COMMENTS

weekend suggestion..

blrsri - 17 December, 2007 - 05:58

- Take the 'trek' bike out and mount them at the back of your car - Drive onto the freeway from the toll booths - Enjoy the drive having the car on 'cruise' mode - get off the freeway and get to road leading to the hills - and have a fun day! No, this aint America or the Germany..its here in Bangalore! -'Trek' bikes are available at a store in Jayanagar, 'Thule' mounts are also available here, use them to mount the bike.. -If in JP nagar or anywhere else, get onto the nice road and put your car on 'cruise' (the new scorpio has cruise mode) -Drive to tumkur road and get off at dobbspet and get to Devarayandurga -Work all the gears on the bike to hear your heart pounding in your ears, while enjoying the nature.. -Eat puliyogare at the temple and dirve back home with nice memories! Meanwhile, the bus comming from channrayapattana reaches Majestic on time because there is less traffic on the tumkur road near peenya!

Weekend Suggestion ..

City.Zen - 17 December, 2007 - 05:57

Nice to read something nice about a get-away from Bangalore. May I please publish this in my company's staff forum for the benefit of our Bikers' Club, mentioning your name as well as Praja's? Thanks

unpardonable chaos creation

murali772 - 17 December, 2007 - 07:14

text of the letter sent to The New Indian Express on 16th March, '07:

I refer to the report in your City Express columns on the 12th instant under the caption 'Why the perpetual chaos on Hosur road?'.

Now, the fact of the matter is that there already exists the near world-class BMIC expressway covering the entire segment between Hosur road and Tumkur road, with only a few small stretches remaining to be connected. And, if this is done, the chaos not only on Hosur road, but along the entire segment, will get sorted out automatically.

But, the government will not allow it inspite of the Supreme Court ordering it to do so repeatedly. Each time the court passes an order, the government comes up with some new obstacle or the other, because the connected ruling politicians feel that they have not got their entire pound of flesh. And, then they come up with the extremely costly and totally disastrous solutions like the elevated highway, which, for all the added disruptions caused, may one day end up like the Richmond road fly-over.

A government that exists only to perpetuate the vested interests of its inner few, and is oblivious to the miseries it adds to the lives of the common man, in this process, is best got ridden of fast.

Does ESG been paid to malign BMIC.

bcsagar - 17 December, 2007 - 11:52

Dear All pragmatic people, A high court judge recently remarked that BMIC is like drum lying on street which everyone wants to hit. I have carefully seen complete strech of peripheral & link roads of BMIC. First of all it is an engineering feat to build access controlled road in Bangalore with numerous roads criss crossing & bridges for each of them. The lakes all along the road are neatly barricaded & preserved. Please, there are dozens of lakes dying with pollution in Bangalore. The real estate boom has destroyed vegetation beyond repair. Does the ESG have guts to fight the case of these dying lakes and stop building those huge malls & apartments complexes. Think of benefits of such an access controlled road has on environment. The vehicles emissions are drastically reduced instead of choking at traffic junctions. You know why there is less pollution in US/Europe coz of Freeways inspite of huge population of cars. This kind of pseudo environment movements needs to be discouraged. PS: There are vested interests who use the environmentalists as front end to lobby for their cause. Thanks, Bharat Sagar

more get-aways

blrsri - 17 December, 2007 - 06:43

Sure Sir, I would say my above entry is pretty crude but can be used! It need not have my name..but check if we can get some from your co onto praja.. I have many routes like this for going around bangalore..sholay hills(ramnagara)..manchanbele..savandurga..

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