Elevated expressway will be ready by July'08

Elevated expressway will be ready by July'08

Come July next, and you could be zipping to Electronics City from Jayanagar/Koramangala in less than 10 minutes flat. Feel elevated? Await the completion of the elevated expressway from Central Silk Board junction to Electronics City. A third of the 10-km long 4-lane highway has been completed, according to a recent review of the project. Earlier this week, the Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, TR Baalu inspected the ongoing works of assembling and launching of gantry, piling works and construction of underpasses by the box pushing technique.

Stopping over at the Silk Board junction, he instructed the contractor to improve safety arrangements. Expressing overall satisfaction at the progress of work, he directed the contractor to ensure that the project would be completed on schedule.

The bridge deck work is expected to begin in July-end. The elevated highway will boast of a hi-tech traffic management system, video cameras, emergency call booths and standard lighting.

Wanted, change in design: The IT community wants a change in the design of the elevated expressway as the present design causes inconvenience to the motorists driving to the Electronics City. At a meeting with CM HD Kumaraswamy earlier this week, IT head honchos urged the CM to lower the first ramp of the expressway at the entrance of the HP Company at the Electronics City. The chief minister, while assuring them that he would take up the issue with the union surface transport ministry, is said to have expressed his reservations over the demand, as the work on the expressway had begun a long ago.

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