Just like many other fly-overs in Bangalore, The Hosur Road elevated highway built at a cost of about 800 crores seems to be a waste.
Yesterday evening at 6PM, supposed to be the busiest hour of the day, I was driving from eCity to Silk board. The 9 Km drive took about 25 minutes, with 5, 1,3 and 5 minutes of waiting at the first junction after after eCity, Kudlu gate, construction bloackage and BommanaHalli due to traffic. If this waiting time to be considered 2 minutes of driving, the efective drive time between eCity and Bommnahalli was (25-5-1-3-5+2) 13 minutes.
If I were to use the elevated highway for the same distance, I would have taken 9 minutes at a speed 80 Kmph (including the 2 minute time for waiting at the toll booth)
To save that 4 minute per vehicle did we have to spend 800 Crores?
The simple solution would have been a underpass/flyover at the above mentioned three junctions which costs less than 20 crores each.
The whole exercise of building the elevated highway which took 3 years and 800 Crore rupees is like " ".
Is it that the people involved are so dumb that they don't study the situation or is it deliberately done for that % share they get.
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