The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Anand Rao Circle flyover thrown open to traffic

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Saturday, Feb 11, 2006

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Anand Rao Circle flyover thrown open to traffic

Staff Reporter

The carriageway is expected to ease traffic congestion

FREE PASS: A view of the Anand Rao Circle Flyover after it was inaugurated in Bangalore on Friday. — Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

BANGALORE: Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy inaugurated the flyover at Anand Rao Circle here on Friday.

Though the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA), which started the project in December 2004, had promised to complete the flyover in November last, the deadline was postponed twice.

The Rs. 27.60-crore project has a main carriageway of 647 metres and is 14 metres wide. It is expected to ease traffic congestion by 10,000 passenger car units (PCU) per hour. It is a free carriageway.

The project, carried out by Simplex Concrete Piles (I) Ltd., includes a five-lane uni-directional carriageway up to Anand Rao Circle with a two-lane one-way down ramp towards Basaveshwara Circle and a four-lane one-way flyover on Seshadri Road crossing Anand Rao Circle and Subbanna Circle.

Officials said work on a 7.5-metre wide loop just after the Anand Rao Circle is pending and will be completed by April.

Anand Rao Circle is among the most congested traffic junctions in the city because of its proximity to the Kempe Gowda Bus Station and the Bangalore City Railway Station. It is also the most polluted one.

An estimated 18,000 vehicles (passenger car units) pass through this junction every hour as it is the gateway for vehicles moving towards the southern and the eastern parts of Bangalore.

Also, it is the only junction in the city where most Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) buses pass through.

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