The government is planning to make the Bangalore-Mysore road an eight lane highway with flyovers to ease traffic congestion at key bottlenecks.
In the recent past, the two-and-a-half-hour smooth drive between these two cities has turned into a three-and-a-half-hour nightmare, with drivers forced to negotiate over 100 illegally erected speed breakers.
The traffic density, according to a recent survey conducted by the public works department (PWD), has almost doubled in the past decade with the 130-km stretch recording 40,000 passenger car unit (PCU).
When the four-lane was built in 2004, vehicular traffic was 20,000 PCU.
The eight-lane highway proposal is likely to be presented to chief minister Siddaramaiah and included in the budget to be presented on February 14.
The proposal to build flyovers in five places on the way to Mysore — Bidadi, Ramanagaram, Maddur, Mandya and Srirangapatna — has remained a mere promise from ministers and netas representing Mandya, Mysore and Chamarajanagar districts.
Asked if it’ll be a six- or an eight-lane highway, public works minister HC Mahadevappa said the proposal is before the CM, and didn’t disclose the details.
Some time ago, the minister had spoken of two proposals — upgrading the busy road into a six-lane one or a national highway.
Six or eight lanes, widening of the road means acquiring huge tracts of land along the highway, which is seeing huge real-estate action in the past decade.
But land losers needn’t fret. With the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 passed and notified,landowners are likely to get a good amount — four times the market rate — if they have to part with huge chunks of their land along the highway.
In the recent past, the two-and-a-half-hour smooth drive between these two cities has turned into a three-and-a-half-hour nightmare, with drivers forced to negotiate over 100 illegally erected speed breakers.
The traffic density, according to a recent survey conducted by the public works department (PWD), has almost doubled in the past decade with the 130-km stretch recording 40,000 passenger car unit (PCU).
When the four-lane was built in 2004, vehicular traffic was 20,000 PCU.
The eight-lane highway proposal is likely to be presented to chief minister Siddaramaiah and included in the budget to be presented on February 14.
The proposal to build flyovers in five places on the way to Mysore — Bidadi, Ramanagaram, Maddur, Mandya and Srirangapatna — has remained a mere promise from ministers and netas representing Mandya, Mysore and Chamarajanagar districts.
Asked if it’ll be a six- or an eight-lane highway, public works minister HC Mahadevappa said the proposal is before the CM, and didn’t disclose the details.
Some time ago, the minister had spoken of two proposals — upgrading the busy road into a six-lane one or a national highway.
Six or eight lanes, widening of the road means acquiring huge tracts of land along the highway, which is seeing huge real-estate action in the past decade.
But land losers needn’t fret. With the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 passed and notified,landowners are likely to get a good amount — four times the market rate — if they have to part with huge chunks of their land along the highway.
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