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Written By silkboard - 7 December, 2007
Bangalore Satellite Towns Road Works Elevated Roads Citizen Reports Transportation Infrastructure NH4 Tumkur Road
Saw two interesting bits in papers about this project. About a week ago, newspapers carried a list of land properties along NH4/Tumkur road that could be acquired for the project. And today, one newspaper has an ad insert that says - "Navayuga Engineering Co. Ltd. announces financial closure of Navayuga Bengalooru Tollway (P) Ltd., Rs 718 Crores BOT Road project on Bangalore Nelamangala section of NH4 ..."
As usual, not much more by way of updates in media or on sarkaari websites. And I haven't seen dates mentioned anywhere recently - when will work begin and when is it slated to end. But yes, they seem to be working at it. In case you are feeling lost, this is the highway we are talking about:
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IT folks may not know, but Tumkur road is probably the most crowded road in Bangalore during commute hours, especially in the evening, worse than Hosur Road, Airport Road or Old Madras Road.
COMMENTS
srinidhi - 24 September, 2010 - 14:35
except for the 'all elevated' stretch of about 4 Kms starting from ring road junction on Tumkur road ..till a little after Hesarghatta jn
Its an excellent drive with no issues of any sort..Tumkur's 70 Km from Blr and this shd be done in an hour easy once the entire stretch is opened..it takes 15 min more now since the 4Km is not opened yet..
'Flying over' the NH 48 jn is the best part of this road..its brilliant!
no 2,3 wheelers on the tollway
balajiolety - 24 September, 2010 - 03:33
For about a week now i travelled on the expressway and everytime the security guards are warning the 2 wheelers and the 3 wheelers not to take the expressway and take the service roads instead. they said NHAI has banned entry of 2 and 3 wheelers. Another classic case of discrimination (in my opinion). They also told me that the toll would be collected for all wheelers from 25 of sep. Dont know how far is this true. THey had also displayed the "on trial run" banners everywhere on the expressway.
i guess its not fair to exclude 2 wheelers and 3 wheelers.
2,3 wheelers should not be allowed on expressways
skumaras - 24 September, 2010 - 12:33
@balaji
Expressways are constructed to help speedy movement of traffic. 2,3 wheelers will slow down the traffic. And the elevated roads can be dangerous for two wheelers. So NHAI has done the right thing by banning 2,3 wheelers on the tollway.
A fair way though is to put up minimum & maximum speed limits and let the vehicles which travel on the expressway adhere to it. I know for a fact 3 wheelers cant do it. Some of the 2 wheelers can but wont be safe for them. This will mean they have to have cops pulling up vehicles which travel slower causing backups. What they are doing now is a lower effort way of enforcing the speed. Not garunteed that lorries which travel up there will be faster than the autorikshaws. This speed limit way should be extended to all corridors of the city.
NHAI puts up these things precisely because our cities make these highways into city streets by opening up businesses & facilities directly to interstate infrastructure. NHAI want to prioritize interstate speedier movement of goods & traffic without having to lock us down but we want to colonize their expressways with our autorikshaws also, given a chance we will put up a building with a door opening on to the expressway :)
Pratap Hegde - 16 August, 2010 - 10:17
This is not yet all surprising although disappointing. Earlier news reports about 15th August opening proved to be wrong. Rather it would have become a matter of surprise if they had opened the tollway on 15th August and the harassed road users would have got freedom from their long suffering.
Todays TOI report says NHAI is expected to throw open the road by this month end. I just dont understand why NHAI can't make a clear public commitment and stand by that ?
Hopefully they shall make it by EOM.
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