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Written By santoshshetty39 - 8 August, 2008

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The 7 th of August 2008 , Near Benniganahalli Railway Bridge , K R Puram ,Bangalore - 36 Regarding the issue of Widening the road , Mr .N.S.Nandeesh Reddy , MLA ,K R Puram Constituency met with the public ,as they were protesting for the widening of road .

Mr .N.S.Nandeesh Reddy himself participated in the protest and called the NATIONAL HIGHWAY DEV AUTHORITY people and told that they will call a Tender for widening this road within this 25 th of August 2008 .

As he insisted the people regarding the issue , the public gathered took back the protest.

COMMENTS

Land acquisition is not a problem

mcadambi - 10 August, 2008 - 08:52

There is not much high value land on either side of Old Madras road before the RUB unlike roads like CMH Road in Indiranagar and Mahakavi Kuvempu Road in Rajajinagar. Acquisition of land before the RUB and land after the existing RUB is also not a problem, provided there is will.

Modifying KR Puram Railway Station should be a priority. 

I will write a detailed letter to the respective MLAs of that area. 

benniganahalli

tsubba - 10 August, 2008 - 12:12

folks, while there is impetus, can request for a comprehensive review of the entire flow between OMR and NH4 and ORR at this bottleneck, including RUB, the flyover and the bridge? this thing has to be designed keeping the whole thing in mind.

How about the bottle neck under the bridge

christopher - 8 August, 2008 - 07:19

I am afraid by just widening the Beniganahalli railway under pass things are going to be worse at the KR Puram railway station under the suspended bridge. Widening the Beniganahalli railway under pass will result in traffic piling up faster in the subsequent bottleneck and will be result in utter chaos near criss cross just before the hanging bridge. As such it is already chaotic.

This area needs a comprehensive solution

  1. A TTMC - people cross the road perilously trying to get their bus here.
  2. Good pedestrian crossings (overpasses)
  3. Remove the bottle necks (both the rly stn and beniganahalli)

Co-ordinate change

mcadambi - 10 August, 2008 - 04:58

There has to be a co-ordinated operation to increase the width of the Railway Underbridge as well as proportional changes near the KR Puram Railway Station.

I was coming back from Tirupati last night and saw the horror of the jam for myself while seated in a Bus. The road is wide on either side of the existing RUB but becomes smaller than even a gully road because the road is so damaged.

The Railways and NHAI are claiming that it will take 2-3 years to fix the problem. This is bull $hit. When China can build an olympic size stadium in three years then it does not take so long to complete the flaws in Benniganahalli and KR Puram Railway station.

We have to press on the area MLA's to exercise their whip on erriring officials in the NHAI and Railways. Only the MLAs can issue notices to the officials concerned.

benniganahalli bridge work underway..

srinidhi - 24 February, 2009 - 11:32

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