Sankey Road widening work will commence from next week and will be completed in 18 months, confirmed deputy mayor S Harish.
Sankey Road widening work will commence from next week and will be completed in 18 months, confirmed deputy mayor S Harish.
Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Harish said, “The NGOs should be part of the mechanism. They cannot become town planners.”
In order to check the veracity of the allegation made by the NGOs and the public, the deputy mayor, along with the officers, visited Sankey Road on Friday. Harish said, as per the revised master plan 2015, the road has to be widened to 30 m. “But considering all the aspects, we have decided to widen the road by 27 m. We want to clarify that we are not acquiring any private property for road widening. There were also rumours that we would demolish the Stella Maris High School building. There is no truth to that. Though it’s the BBMP that gave lease to the school, we will not demolish or damage it,” he said.
Regarding the number of trees which will be chopped for road-widening, Harish confirmed that only 19 trees would be cut. “A few people were opposing the road-widening stating that due to the closure of CV Raman Road, the traffic volume on the Sankey Road has increased. But as per the reports, the traffic volume per day on the road is 43,645 per car unit (pcu). If the volume is above 3,367 pcu, it is considered as more than the normal volume of the traffic,” he said.
Harish said that there are 103 properties coming up along the road, including the Communist party office, but the road-widening will not disturb any building.
“There was also allegation that the road widening is unscientific, but the project has been planned by the experts from the directorate of urban land transport. We will take up the critical portions for work first. In the first phase, we are taking up road-widening from Bhashyam Circle to Sankey Park (18th Cross junction) as the road between Cauvery Junction and Bhashyam Circle is wide enough, 27 m with four lanes,” he said.
Speaking about the flyover at Bhashyam Circle, Harish said the road would have to be widened before constructing a flyover there. “There is a proposal for constructing a flyover from Sadashivanagar to Vyalikaval Road at the circle,” he said.
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