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Seriously, @CMofKarnataka? There’s money for the tunnel road, but where’s the support for developing ’s infrastructure? Strong Tier-2 cities like Hubballi can attract investments a
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Read originalSeriously, @CMofKarnataka ? There’s money for the #Bengaluru tunnel road, but where’s the support for developing #Hubballi ’s infrastructure? Strong Tier-2 cities like Hubballi can attract investments and reduce the burden on Bengaluru. Tejasvi Surya (@Tejasvi_Surya) The Hebbal 2 km short tunnel is unscientific, serves no purpose and a complete waste of ₹1,350 crores. The Congress Government's unscientific tunnel will cut down 1,128 trees, increase Hebbal Lake flooding risks, disrupts ground water and is designed to further worsen the traffic situation. It is unacceptable that the Government is gambling with infrastructure decisions. The short tunnel entails huge irreversible ecological costs merely to bypass the junction and dump vehicles at a faster rate back onto the same road 2 kms ahead. And when this was pointed out to the Government, instead of dropping the short tunnel it cooked up another unscientifically planned elevated corridor to clear up the traffic mess that will be created by the short tunnel. Hebbal already has the under construction Blue Line, planned Red Line, Orange Line and suburban rail converging here. Together this will make public transport a compelling preferred choice and provide sustainable relief to the traffic congestion. Instead of expediting the metro & suburban rail, the short-sighted Government has dropped the important Veterinary College Red Line station, which would serve 18,000+ riders a day, to accomodate the unscientific Tunnel and Elevated Road. Also, IISc confirmed the well established fact that the tunnel road costs 6X more per passenger than Metro. Even the State Finance Department questioned the need, huge costs, risky design, and the new bottlenecks the short tunnel would inevitably create. Bengaluru needs to focus on expeditiously building an extensive and reliable public transport network solution to effectively and sustainably manage the core traffic issues in the city. BDA, stop the unscientific short tunnel project. The city has already suffered enough with this nonsense. @DULTBangalore @BDAOfficialGok Video — http://shitter.thepixora.com/Tejasvi_Surya/status/2109176826396279027#m
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