Expressway coming: Zip to International Airport


Will Run From Nagavara At Outer Ring Road Up to Devanahalli

Gearing up to tackle the traffic bottlenecks that will surface with the International airport, Bangalore will have an expressway from a point on Outer Ring Road up to Devanahalli.

A Decision to initiate this project was taken at the empowered committee on infrastructure meet at Vidhana Soudha on Monday. The expressway will act as a link road between the airport and the city. Explaining some of the project details chief secretary B. K. Das said, "The alignment for the expressway has been identified. It will run from Nagavara at Outer Ring Road straight up to up to Devanahalli. The expressway cuts through Peripheral Ring Road as well". The 30-Km stretch will be an access-controlled road, with a width of 100 metres. The four-lane expressway will be implemented by the BMRDA (Bangalore Metropolitian Regional Development Authoity).

Says R.K.Misra, member of empowerd committee on infrastructure, "The project will require about 300 acres, it will take some land from the green belt as well as private land. The cost of land acquisition alone at Rs 300 crore to Rs 500 crore". The entire project could escalate to much more.

Because the project cuts through Peripheral Ring Road, the expressway can be linked onto the NH-7. Apparently plans are a foot to develop the area commercially and have malls and shopping centres so as to decongest the roads into the city.

Other Plans

Greater Bangalore will come into being only after BMP elections.

An SPV will be created for implementating Core Ring Road which runs through the heart of the city.

A revised infrastructure policy for the state will be put up for the next Cabinet session, which will focus on what the focus pf public-private partnership.