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Sankey Road Trees Chopped-off overnight after a secret auction
Written By Bengloorappa - 2 July, 2011
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Sadly and expectedly BBMP has gone ahead and done what its best at. It has in a unilateral, self-serving, spur of the moment, authoritarian manner chopped off 17 of the 19 beautiful trees on Sankey Road starting as early as 1:30 am on Friday morning before a stay could be obtained on the remaining 2 trees by 6pm.
Full article here http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Bangalore/article2151390.ece
In a rare gesture and in the interest of time, high court judges visited the spot in a personal vehicle and ascertained the location and the geography before passing the order but it was too late by the time a stay could be obtained.
It just might be too late before our councillors and corporators realise what they are doing/have done to Bangalore. Sigh!
COMMENTS
idontspam - 4 July, 2011 - 07:21
But I can almost guarantee that such a master plan effort will be set so it costs us a few hundread crores, and will already be outdated by the time it is delivered in the next decade.
Here is a simple way to start the planning process. Because if you cant set targets you cant measure progress. Lets see if the PIL can include these modal share targets, I have sent this thread as an input.
Why BBMP was so much in hurry & not with MANTRI Developer
Sanjeev - 3 July, 2011 - 06:42
What was the hurry to do this and why r they doing behaving like goonda.
When it comes to Developers, they take yrs to do it.
Has BBMP / BDA completed service roads complet Ring Road where land is already available with them and their r no trees to fell. Here they do not have any urgency.
I feel its Sadhashivnagar high profile residence would have forced to do this as lot trafffic gets diverted thru residential area. Same was the case with Kaveri Junction ill-planed BLACK MAGIC BOX underpass where the same residence have got it done so that they get signal free corridor to city.
Thats reason you can see that statment Sadhashivnagar Reisdence are not opposing and its Malleshwaram Residence are opposing.
Deputy Mayor Harish Playing Key Role
Vasanth - 2 July, 2011 - 07:03
While former Mayor Sandeshswamy and other BJP counsellers assured there will be no road widening, current deputy mayor Harish took keen interest in this and also played a double game. He got the auction done in a remote place overnight and told the reporters that the protesters were protesting in the morning, but agreed with him in the evening to play that he is innocent.
Despite of so many protests, and a pending case in the court, trees were chopped off. Question raises here is why is Mr. Harish so keen in this? There is something in it for him , either in Timber Mafia or in contracts for Road Widening. Can there be any Lokayukta investigation on the same? Offenders in BBMP who were responsible for this, violating the court should never be spared.
What is opposition party MLCs, MLAs and MPs doing? What is our ex-Priminister Mr. Devegowda doing? If big hand opposition MLAs and MPs would have joined the fight, definitely, something could have been done. Atleast, now, will the opposition leaders take any stand in getting an investigation done and punishing the offenders.
rs - 2 July, 2011 - 15:12
Clearly the urgeny and surreptitousness of the whole operation strongly suggests that there were other factors at work - not only the desire of BBMP to get the job done quickly for the sake of the citizens - as they might claim. It is really, really unfortunate. Its a very sad day for Bangalore. In spite of such large scale and high profile protests nothing could be done. It shows that the system is completely rotten. We have an ineffectual mayor, a terribly corrupt BBMP who have shown complete disregard to the law and a police system that is not able to enforce the law - except when it comes to suppressing the voice of the people. What a shame !
The worst thing about this is that it is completely clear that this will have absolutely no effect on the traffic. The source of the problem is the signal Bhasyam circle and this will have no effect on that.
Ramesh
MaheshK - 4 July, 2011 - 05:55
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/173505/twist-road-widening-tale.html
How do you spell Prevent? See the spelling in the photo. It is spelled Privent. That shows what kind of crowd they are. It's all staged. I think the guy standing next to the auto is a BJP party worker. I have seen him in Malleswaram area.
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