Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwara

steel flyover project

steel flyover

Bengaluru

This kind of unilateral decision is unacceptable, especially when the project has run into controversy following stiff protest by the people in the past ­ –BS Yeddyurappa, BJP state president

The government will not budge to black mailers coming in the way of development projects. The steel bridge is needed to de-congest the traffic in N B’luru. We are reconsidering the project after request from members of the public – DK Shivakumar Water Resources Minister

Steel Flyover beda

Govt will take decision after considering all opinions:Some old desires are hard to quell. On Tuesday, when Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwara announced the revival of the 6.50-km-long, it seemed the criticism and protest that the proposal had raised was already a thing of the past.The Deputy Chief Minister said the project had been scrapped due to political reasons, but the government has decided to take up it in the interest of public.“We will place all the details pertaining to the project in the public domain. We will invite the opinions and suggestions from the public. The government will take a decision after taking all the opinions and suggestions into consideration,’’ Dr Parameshwara said.Social activists, however, are not in a mood to agree with the Deputy Chief Minister. They said the plan to revival theis a waste of time and of tax-payers’ money. “The proposed steel flyover will not solve the traffic problem on the Airport Road. Traffic on the Airport Road is less when compared to other traffic hot spots in the city such as Old Madras Road and Whitefield,” says Tara Krishnaswamy, co-founder, Citizens forExpressing a similar opinion, Sridhar Pabbisetty, Chief Executive Officer, Namma Bengaluru Foundation, said that though there needs to be a solution to the traffic problems on the Airport Road, the steel flyover would not provide that.“The steel flyover will not be a solution to the traffic woes on the Airport Road. I think the government has to focus on three to four major traffic junctions on the stretch between Chalukya Circle and Esteem Mall to ensure smooth movement of vehicular traffic on the Airport Road,’’ he says.Srinivas Alavalli, who was in the forefront of theprotest, said in a social media post, “...people opposed this project because they don’t think this is solution to traffic and because they think it is a disaster for our trees. Both reasons continue to be true. Therefore, #SteelFlyoverBeda.”Devesh Raj, a resident of Yelahanka, however, said, there was a need for the steel flyover. “There are huge traffic jams at Cauvery junction and from Mehkri Circle to Hebbal is notorious, which need to be sorted out,” he said.