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Written By termin - 9 February, 2009

Bangalore BETL Hosur Road Road Works Elevated Roads Citizen Reports Transportation Infrastructure

Can any one at Praja help get status of BETL project on Hosur Road? Points for discussion: a) estimated completion date b) current status of the project (pending issues) c) any change in alignments undertaken by consessionaire / NHAI - due to external pressures / any-other (eg: Maytas) d) progress of toll-collection centers & est. time for completion e) method of toll collection and cost / rate per class of vehicle f) E-city inmates' response to BETL project & endless delays Look forward to responses. Cheers!

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I hate to say this - but typical!

sanjayv - 1 April, 2009 - 15:49

Typical!  We have multiple agencies (NHAI, BBMP, BDA etc. etc.) executing a project, with minimum thought and planning.  The word "design" is anathema it seems.  Any person with common sense could have foreseen this and they have done so from internet postings to lunch tables.

Now we have a new crisis to solve and thus we will keep moving, putting out fire after fire.

USER CHARGES AT BETL TOLL PLAZA

Public Agenda - 2 April, 2009 - 08:31

How was this project paid for and who paid 700- 800 crs?. 400 crs when announced in Aug 2004

The 4- laning of hosur road in 1992-93 cost Rs 3/ km approx
so around 100 crs uptill Attibele hosur

now more than 7-8 times for 10 kms
most of it govt paid and not really any PPP?

Nothing on toll plazas

s_yajaman - 2 September, 2009 - 08:41

Tried a google search.  Nothing.  Could it be possible that the toll plazas are only at E-City for both directions.  Anyway you can't get on and off in the middle (get off is possible but unlikely it would be intentional).
 
A couple of weeks back traffic was backed up till Bannerghtta Road and it took me 45 mins till SB Jn.
 
 
Srivathsa

BETL- Opening date?

sandeepmr - 18 June, 2009 - 19:32

Havent heard of any new updates/pics from Praja or outside sources for sometime now, last i heard it was supposed to be thrown open in May, dont think that has happened.

Improvements to CSB flyover planned

s_yajaman - 1 April, 2009 - 12:49

Read this in DNA

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1224717

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has proposed improvements to the flyover across the Central Silk Board (CSB) junction.

The BBMP has estimated the traffic pile up on BTM layout at 450 metres. The BBMP proposal to ABIDe include three options to integrate traffic on ORR with that on the flyover above and thus eliminate the need for traffic signals. 

ABIDe View, ABIDe member and traffic expert, Prof MN Srihari said that infrastructure was the need of the hour, especially when the elevated corridor to Electronic City from CSB junction is about to be commissioned.

"When you have heavy traffic on the elevated corridor arriving at the CSB junction, it would be impossible for the traffic below the flyover to move. We must complete this project to coincide with the completion of the elevated corridor," he said. 

Prof Srihari also opined that ABIDe would also consider an option to have an underground connectivity instead of the proposed elevated loops.

Srivathsa

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