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Its to be seen if having a govt at the helm help..there will be lot of plane rides by various politicians into and out of Bangalore..remember its BJP's gateway to the south and not all airport rides will be exclusive!

And Yeshwant Sinha/ Sushma Swaraj will get stuck in the jams and they will tell Yeddy Sir to fix the bellary road and things will then happen on a war footing!

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Malolan,

The disadvantages of an underground road far outweigh the advantages as listed below :

Advantages :

1) Quick movement of traffic.

2) Traffic conflicts are avoided.

3) Handling capacity of the road netwrok increases.

Disadvantages ; 

1) Very high cost, even if cut & cover method is used, instead of tunneling with tunnel boring machines (TBMs).

2) Lighting, Ventilation & drainage within the tunnel is an expensive recurring cost.

3) Encourages vandalism & robbery at night when vehicles are few as there is no assistance /protection at hand.

4) Encourages people to opt for private vehicles as road movements become better.

5) Easy traget for terrorism.

These were the reasons why the Minsk square to Hebbal tunnel did not materialize. Such tunnels are welcome within an institution as security /costs are easily met & monitoring is generally not an issue for the limited no. of users, but this becomes a major issue when it is opted for public use - elevated roads are better in this respect.

Even the Metro has opted for elevated alignments for these reasons, except in congested areas where they do not have any choice, but to go underground.

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Thank you Naveen for your clarifications!

I am just wondering if atleast an elevated road connecting Sanjaynagar to Mekhri Circle can be built. There is a major block on the junction of D Rajagopal Road and Bellary Road. Vehicles have to take a left on D Rajagopal Road if they have to go to Sanjaynagar.

Nevertheless - the Air Force Training Command land is a major hurdle blocking access to Sanjaynagar. 

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BBMP developing alternative road to international airport

The commute to the Bengaluru International Airport is likely to be smoother once the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) completes work on the three-lane double road from Hennur, and the BBMP's Standing Committee for Major Works met with BIAL officials in this regard recently.

Committee chairperson H. Ravindra said the 150-foot wide road from Hennur will run till the Mylanahalli junction to reach the BIAL compound on the eastern side. “Once the road is developed, the residents of the eastern parts of the city can reach the airport easily and won't have to take the Bellary Road. This will be an alternative road to the airport.”

Report soon

The meeting decided to constitute a joint committee which will submit a report on the road within 10 days. The BBMP requested BIAL to take over the construction of the road from the compound wall to the airport terminal though BIAL officials had some apprehensions as the second runway would come up by 2014.

“All these issues will be looked into. We will discuss the report with Mayor S.K. Nataraj and Minister in-charge R. Ashok and then decide,” Mr. Ravindra said.

Congestion impact

The alternative road from Hennur cuts through Bagalur, Kanoor, Chagalatha, Mylanahalli, cutting the distance to the airport by around 10 km. Now that the National Highway Authority of India has announced that it will collect a toll on Airport Road, commuters will prefer travelling to the airport on BBMP's road.

“This will help bring down traffic congestion on the Airport Road by half,” he claimed.

BBMP officials said that the road is being developed at Rs. 46 crore and 80 per cent of the work has been completed. They said that Rs. 31 crore had been spent and 56 acres (nearly 24 lakh sq ft) had been acquired through TDR. The committee members said that the work would be completed within two to three months.

Land had been acquired from a Dalit colony in Bandikodigehalli and its residents would be rehabilitated under the 22.75 per cent scheme.

Air show

The committee members later visited the road which would lead from Airport Road towards Doddaballapur that has been taken up by the Karnataka Rural Infrastructure Development Ltd. at a cost of Rs. 18.23 crore. The 20.9-km road is being developed as per directions of the State Chief Secretary, aimed at reducing congestion during Aero India to be held next month.

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/bbmp-developing-alternative-road-to-international-airport/article1125926.ece

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Bellary road comes under the constituency of Byatarayanpura. The MLA of this consituency is Shri Krishna Byregowda of the Congress. He was educated in Christ College (BBM) and in American University, Washington DC (M.A).

This is his website: http://www.krishnabyregowda.in/index.html

I plan to write to him to request him to expedite the work in progress of the Bellary Road.

I propose an undergound road, similar to the one built by IISc connecting the JN Tata Auditorium to the main campus, that goes under the Air Force Head Quaters and connecting D Rajagopal Road to Bellary Road. This would enable Vehicles using Bellary road to take a quick detour through the underground road into Sanjaynagar.

Alternatively, if the Air Force is willing, then we could have a cheaper road cutting through the Training Command. But then i doubt the Air Force would be willing to give up an inch of their land citing 'national security' concerns:

http://picasaweb.google.com/crm4803/ProposedProjects02/photo#5205337848976071810 

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