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Written By silkboard - 5 November, 2008

Bangalore Hosur Road Elevated Roads Road Works Review Madivala

Miles & miles of pillars

If you want to imagine how the elevated highway is going to look post completion, start with few month old pictures from foto sun @ flickr (see below). The one on right is my favorite though.

 

 

Here is one thing I did not know about this Elevated tollway being built by Soma Enterprise. Government didn't have to pay a dime for this project. From what R K Mishra recently told me (he likes the idea of elevated roads built on PPP model as the elevation safeguards against entropy and land acquisition hassles, and these come at no cost to the government), this project is actually going to pay Rs 50-60 crores back to the government.

BTW, the elevated road will be starting just a bit after the silk board flyover. So expect crowding on toll gate right after you get down from that flyover. Though, I won't be surprised if the vehicle backup stretches all the way back to Madivala police station.

Another thing we sensed during recent interactions with BMRC folks is that the elevated road is going to create some problems for planning Metro alignment towards Electronics City/Jigani area. If aligning with Hosur Road, they'd have to build the metro on top of one of the service roads. And then, what do they do near the points where NICE Peripheral road joins Hosur Road, or where BDA's PRR is supposed to intersect Hosur Road? Go higher, or go under, or skirt around? Think, think and think, and perhaps go buy some cement and steel stocks :)

COMMENTS

BETL nearing completion

mcadambi - 9 January, 2009 - 13:09

BETL is nearing completion. Thank god it was NHAI who was the client and it was not promoted per se by Maytas. In any case, this is a complete failure of Hyderabad Inc. I earlier thought that Hyderabad was good competition to Bengaluru. But now that is not the case. 

nah!

tsubba - 9 January, 2009 - 14:14

Nah! Cant say this. Primarily Indian company. If there are going to be repercussions it will for be the entire country and not restricted to Hyderabad. Only Indians distinguish between BLR & HYD. For outside investors, the nuances don’t matter.

Infy Vs Satyam

mcadambi - 9 January, 2009 - 15:01

Atleast 'The Economist' differntiated between Infy and Satyam:

http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12903424&source=features_box3 

My favorite shot is this one

silkboard - 5 November, 2008 - 16:46

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I was picturing Metro running on top of these pillars. I am like man, can BMRC buy the BETL project from Soma right now and run trains on the elevated surface? Wonder how much load and vibration these pillars can take. Wonder if its possible for Soma to lease out center lane on BETL to Metro.

Forget if all this is possible or not, but we all imagine and dream, isn't it.

Extend your imagination a bit further and think what Rs 1000 crores could do to Outer Ring Road. May be 20 Magic box based bus only underpasses from Silk board to Hebbal. Assuming 10 crore each per set of magic passes, you'd still have some money left. Use this money (800 crores) to build TTMC like mega bus stops right on top of ORR at places where it cuts major radial roads. So think one mini TTMC each at Agara, Marathahalli, K R Pura, Jalahalli, Hennur and Hebbal crosses.

So then, I can take a bus to Marathahalli mini TTMC, change over to high speed bus on ORR, and then on to my Metro at silk board. Three easy changes, and I can do Whitefield to E-City in may be 35-40 minutes.

Dream!

Corruption at Siemens Vs Satyam

mcadambi - 9 January, 2009 - 15:05

I'm rather surprised none in the Indian media wrote about corruption at Siemens AG, the promoter of BIAL but completely halted the press about Satyam.

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