Tough ride ahead for Bangaloreans to new airport

Bangalore: Bangalore is all set to inaugurate its first underpass corridor at the Cuvery Junction to enhance connectivity to the new international airport.
A brainchild of the Bruhath Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, it is the first of seven underpasses planned to connect the city to the new international airport, 40 kms away at Devenahalli.
The only hiccup is that the project, which supposed to be completed in three days, has taken 33 instead.Even now, last-minute levelling of the underpass is going on.
With six more underpasses to go for the BBMP to realise its vision of a signal-free corridor to the airport, slated to begin operations from March 29 this year, it is a race against time. It has taken more than a month to complete work on just one underpass, so the deadline can be considered to be at least six months from now.
Till then, a ride to the new airport promises to be chaotic and long-winding.
19/02/08 Swetha Balasubramanian/CNN-IBN

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Categories: airports Feb 2008, New Feb 2008