Hebbal flyover: BDA asks contractor to build two service roads

By Govind D.Belgaumkar

BANGALORE, SEPT. 2. The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), which has handed over construction of a Rs.43-crore flyover at Hebbal to Gammon India Limited, has asked the firm to prepare two small service roads along the existing National Highway in one month's time.

This is to ensure that the traffic on the National Highway 7 (Bangalore-Hyderabad Road) moves unhindered when the work on the main deck (bridge) of the proposed flyover commences. The deck, when ready, will lift up the traffic on the National Highway so that the Ring Road Traffic (Tumkur Road to K.R.Puram and vice- versa) moves under bridge without stopping at the Hebbal Cross. At present, the BDA has put up signal lights to regulate the traffic at the cross.

The BDA says the stretch of the National Highway, where the deck has to come up, will be barricaded to provide for smooth progress of work on the bridge, as was done while constructing the Richmond Circle Flyover. This will be done when the service roads are ready. The traffic, which presently moves on the highway, will be shifted to service roads, according to Mr. K.G.Karnik, Engineer-Officer of the BDA.

The firm has been asked to construct one of the S-shaped arms of the flyover (also called loop), which will connect the K.R.Puram traffic coming from Yelahanka side to the Ring Road. This would be done along with the construction of the service roads, Mr. Karnik told The Hindu.

Meanwhile, the BDA has decided to divert to Bhoopasandra Road all the vehicles coming from Bangalore side and bound for Tumkur Road when the work on the flyover commences. While the other traffic will move in the same direction and route as is the case now.

The main deck of the flyover will provide adequate space for the Railways, which has proposed to have an additional track, by the side of the existing railway track. There will be space for the Railways to put up two additional tracks, the BDA says.

The National Highway Authority is the main contributor for the project. It will share 48 per cent of the burden followed by BDA (37 per cent) and the Railways (14 per cent). The National Highway Authority and the Railways are expected to pay up about 30 per cent of their share to the BDA immediately after the work orders are given to the contractor. The BDA is to give over Rs.2 crores to the contractor as mobilisation advance.

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