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Written By mbhatia - 7 September, 2009
Bangalore Whitefield Transportation Infrastructure Flyovers and underpasses Kadugodi
Is there any further information on Kadugodi flyover to ease situtaion at whitefield traffic crossing?
Looking at all the older posts the last deadline was Dec 2008 which has passed 8 months back.
Looking at development on other side of Whitefield station and traffic situation it is becoming important as each day passes that this should be completed. Moreover the route to BIAL is being unused due to this bottleneck.
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adityaselect - 18 November, 2009 - 08:03
CM has forwarded my email to Bangalore Municipal. We can now hope for some action.
Picassa link
http://picasaweb.google.co.in/adityaselect/BridgeToNowhere#5405350663101101890
sanjayv - 3 December, 2009 - 01:54
The Hindu had a write up on this issue on Monday. Not a very well researched article. The citizen matters article was much better. Link to the Hindu article here. Mr. Akhil Agarwal very conveniently blames the delays on "land acquisition". If you read the citizen matters article, you know that this is either a misquote or a mis-statement.
As a first step, I think there should be a bunch of letters to the editor written to the Hindu as a response to this article.
Almost all railway projects involving the city go at their own pace. One cited reason is from a safety perspective which is okay. However, aren't the necessary safety check procedures a part of the project plan? If the affected folks really want this project accelerated, they should mount a campaign targeted at the Railways. This would mean catching the city MPs and having them raise a question in parliament on the incompetence of this whole process, citing the media reports, esp. citizen matters article.
adityaselect - 3 December, 2009 - 04:18
Sanjay, a common man getting MP to raise question in Parliament ! this gonna take even longer than the time for flyover completion.
I only see very few options
1. Wait and watch and complain locally 2. Try to incentivise the people with the power to act to do something. Only people who can move this forward is the railways. This issue should become a front burner issue for them. If Akhil Agarwal decided that this project has to be completed, you think he will not be able to get it done? I am sure he can speed this up within the natural constraints of the physics of the problem. The issue is -> he is not answerable to anybody in the city. He only has to answer his boss in Delhi (or Hubli?). So the kick has to be delivered from up there ... if not for the sake of this particular bridge, for the sake of all the rail over bridges in Bangalore. I was in the wheeler road area lat week... the sorry state of the shops under that flyover is yet another matter.
Right now, watching the sliding deadline, I am thinking along the lines that this will take at least until June 2010 before the bridge gets completed.
I don't know why we have to think that Parliament is some kind of holy, untouchable space. It is our elected body. We have gone out to cast votes -. let us go an ask them to push for us. We will not get if we don't ask. I think it is a lot better route than a rail roko which inconveniences common people more than our wonderful "rulers".
Agree with you though. A mass movement is needed. One person alone cannot do it. However, going by the reports and messages, there are people willing to raise money to lend to the contractor to move things forward. Can such frustration not be channelized into pushing our elected rep into action? In this case, the correct rep is the MP.
That is my 2 cents on this issue.
sanjayv - 7 September, 2009 - 13:04
According to the article and comments in citizen matters, I quote
"The office of the South Western Railways on the present status of the Whitefield ROB:
"Welding of steel girders for the main span over railway track is completed. The final testing and certification of the girder is in progress. The certification is expected to come through by Aug end. The welded girder is proposed to be installed in September this year. The casting of road deck on the girder is programmed for October. Road approach ramp is nearing completion except the top bituminous layer of road surface, which is planned to be taken up after the monsoon, during October. The road over bridge is likely to be commissioned for traffic during first week of Nov."
The article also has contact information for the engineer-in-charge in the comments section. The whole sorry saga is also described there-in.
bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/view/1145-whitefield-railway-bridge-2009
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