Traffic to ease at Nayandahalli Jn

Commuters passing through Nayandahalli Junction on Mysore Road can now heave a sigh of relief. The traffic barricades at the jammed junction will be removed as the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) is going to complete the work soon.

The assurance came from N Sivasailam, managing director, BMRCL, at the India Innovation Summit, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Friday.

“I’m assuring them [motorists and commuters] that the work would be completed and all barricades put up at the junction removed. We will be off from Nayandahalli junction within two weeks,’’ Sivasailam said.

For more than a year, Nayandahalli Junction was a pain for motorists as it took them more than 20 minutes to cross the junction due to the ongoing Metro work. Serpentine queues of vehicles was a common feature there.

Sivasailam rejected the charge that BMRCL had take up more road space for metro works. “Namma Metro has occupied only nine metres of space on the road while it was 13.5 metres in New Delhi and 12 metres in Chennai,’’ he said.

Namma Metro would bring down noise level by 30% and also reduce traffic congestion.

“We’ve been in talks with the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation for introducing a combo card that can be used to travel on Namma Metro as well as by BMTC buses. I expect the BMTC to complete the process within two months,’’ he said.