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Written By silkboard - 16 October, 2007

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Remember this interesting call for expression of interest that appeared on BBMP website earlier this year (here):

"BBMP intends to create a road net work above the main storm water drain wherever feasible ... total length of primary and secondary drain net work is 250 km spread over the entire city."

Did anyone get to hear more about this proposal? Is this feasible without impacting the drains? Will this actually give us new and wide-enough roads? Or has the idea just died an unexplained death?

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SWD

tsubba - 17 October, 2007 - 12:25

thats a good question. i think i read somewhere that it got shelved, not sure and cannot locate source now. :( but this a good candidate for RTI/email query.

Gone down the drain...

Arun - 18 October, 2007 - 06:38

Gone down the drain...

Club Pyramid !

Naveen - 21 October, 2007 - 04:55

I think the possibility for roads over drains was being explored only for dedicated bus lanes - as outlined in the state's demands for JNNURM funds. So, I guess a width of about 30 ft would be sufficient to create the roads. They called it "Club Pyramid Project" in that report. Maybe this is not faesible, probably since the drains are not aligned with the dense commuting corridors ???

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