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Mangalore: The road, which reduces the distance to the Bajpe airport by eight kilometers and gives connection to the new terminal, is ready.
It will handed be over to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) after energizing it. The road will be open for traffic when the new terminal of the Bajpe airport is ready. The terminal is expected to facilitate passenger traffic in September, according to acting airport director B R Sena.
Syed Elyas Pasha, executive engineer, Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation (KUIDFC), said the work as far as the two-lane road is concerned, is complete. "Power supply has to be given to the lights on the road and once Mescom provides it, the road will be handed over to AAI, said Pasha. He said some pending work, like placing markings on the road to be used for two-way traffic, would be over within a couple of days. Pasha said that the final cost of the project was Rs 7.9 crore, almost a crore less than the estimated cost.
Sources in the AAI said the road will be used as a one-way and for vehicles exiting the airport. The Dakkan Park Road, which has been made ready with the help of the local panchayat, would be used as entry into the airport.
The link road is state government's infrastructure gift to the airport expansion project. The plan involved construction of two km of four-lane road, from state highway 66A on the Mangalore-Bajpe Road from Malavoor Railway Bridge, using the Asian Development Bank loan through KUIDFC.
27/06/09 Stanley G Pinto/Times of India

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Categories: Airports Jun 2009