Say no to road widening in Bangalore
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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/no-to-road-widening-in-bangalore
http://praja.in/files/road\%20widening\%20BSS_0.pdf
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40,000 properties in Bangalore are likely to be demolished to widen 227 roads by displacing 38,000 to 2 lakh people for private vehicles. Pedestrians have no footpaths to walk. Road widenings must be stopped. Homes, properties and livelihoods of the citizens must be saved. Roads should be accessible for all sections of society.
With a lot of fanfare, BBMP has taken up widening of more than 220 roads across the city claiming that 'Road widening is inevitable to address the massive traffic woes'. Equally inevitable is the demolition of thousands of houses and shops - in whole or in part - displacing lakhs of people.
The process has started with many houses already flattened by the JCBs. There is palpable anxiety among the people in general and those who have received eviction notice in particular.
Save Bangalore Committee - a city level platform of citizens' forums - has raised the following serious questions and put forth relevant demands.
QUESTIONS: http://praja.in/files/road\%20widening\%20BSS_0.pdf
01. No doubt, traffic congestion is the bane of Bangalore city and urgent remedial measures are required. But is widening of roads, the most optimal measure? Which roads are most appropriate for widening and how is it decided? Are there other alternative options that do not warrant displacement? Has BBMP conducted any scientific study on these matters?
02. It is common knowledge that BMTC - the notorious public transport service - is the principal cause behind the ever-increasing number of vehicles on the city's roads that has crossed 32 lakhs. BMTC and the government should provide convenient, reliable and affordable transport service with sufficient number of buses covering all parts of the city. The number of ordinary buses has not kept pace with the growing population at all; but, air-conditioned 'Volvo' buses - that charge 4-5 times more than the regular fare and run empty during non-peak hours - are seen more and more on city's roads! Is it enough to declare a 'Bus Day' for cheap publicity? If public transport service is improved, it naturally results in lesser vehicle density. What measures are taken to meeting this growing demand?
03. Work has already begun on Metro rail project. Metro has promised a carrying capacity of 12.22 lakhs in 2011 (and 19.72 lakhs in 2021). If this snail-paced work is completed on schedule and rapid, reliable, inexpensive service is guaranteed, it is very likely that the number of private vehicles on the roads comes down. And, there are talks of Mono rail/LRT, BRT systems that promise to connect areas as far as Outer Peripheral Ring Road and act as feeder to Metro. Has BBMP considered all these aspects while deciding to widen the roads?
04. Has BBMP conducted an impact study on environment, green canopy cover and livelihood of the displaced people? What efforts are made to interact with concerned and affected citizens upfront and resolve the - questions and anxieties? Is it too much to expect that a project meant for 'public interest' be preceded by a 'public interaction'? How can a responsible elected civic agency like BBMP simply issue notices to people to vacate themselves or get vacated forcibly, that too, at their own cost? Is it democracy or autocracy?
05. Those stripped of their land or building, get neither money nor alternate site - traditional forms of compensation in such large infra projects. Instead, they get TDRs (Transferrable Development Rights). But the havoc wrecked by TDRs in Mumbai is well-known today. Private developers amassed TDRs under projects meant to rehabilitate slum dwellers in Mumbai. They used these TDRs (called 'Slum TDRs') to expand their property in prime areas like Bandra, Chembur, Khar, Santa Cruz that has led to haphazard and unrestrained development. This has resulted in poor quality construction, drinking water crisis, endless traffic snarls, packed roads and so on. What if this happens to Bangalore leading to a bigger infrastructure crisis than solving perhaps, a smaller one? TDR rates - similar to stock quotes - are market driven and private developers who can be influential manipulators are eyeing TDRs. So, if the TDR rates are down, the retail owners who surrender their land for TDRs could be the ultimate losers!
06. If you question the rationale behind TDRs, BBMP dodges it with an excuse: 'What to do? Our coffers are empty'! But why are they short of funds when they have an assured revenue worth thousands of crores? They collect property tax; they have JNNURM aid; Chief Minister (CM) Yeddyurappa has announced a fabulous grant of Rs.18,872 crores (driven largely by loans) in the last state budget meant for Bangalore infrastructure development in the next 3 years that includes roads and transport. In 2009-10, in terms of property tax, Chennai Corporation collected Rs.500 crore, Delhi Corporation collected Rs.700 crores but BBMP collected Rs.750 crores! What has BBMP done to arrest corruption and massive pilferage of public funds?
07. Even if people take recourse to legal action to get these glaring policy anomalies addressed, the courts are washing their hands off with a standard disclaimer that these infra projects are in 'larger public interest'. But, what is the prime mover of these projects? Public interest or the interest of politician-developer-bureaucrat nexus? Otherwise, why there is a pall of secrecy? Why the requests for information under RTI Act typically evoke no response from the Palike?
08. The politician-builder-bureaucrat evil nexus is garnering a large share of funds in the infrastructure corpus. Who will repay all the money borrowed from various sources including World Bank for the so-called development? Us or them?
09. Will this road widening scheme end with the current scope? Once this process - so obviously meant for the benefit of builders, mall owners and politicians - starts, will it not engulf the whole city like a wild fire?
10. Significantly, there are experts who have questioned this method of addressing traffic problem by widening roads. "Widening roads to ease traffic congestion is ineffective and expensive at the same time, it's like trying to cure obesity by loosening your belt." says Roy Kienitz, Executive Director of Washington - based Surface Transport Policy Project (STPP). An analysis of the respected Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) shows that the capacity improvement plans like widening of roads has had virtually no impact on traffic congestion in major US urban areas in the last 15 years. Has BBMP considered these expert opinions?
Justice M.F. Saldanha, former High Court judge said that all the 28 public interest litigations that were filed in the Karnataka High Court against the project were rejected. He opined that courts too have a duty to uphold people's right.
"We expect justice from the courts for the masses. Courts should also understand people's miseries," he said.
CONCLUSION:
Halting a madness Deccan Herald - DH Edit / Editorial - Saturday, Jul 03, 2010
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/78896/halting-madness.html
Road widen-ing is not the only solution for B'lore
Increasing the use of public transport, encouraging the construction of parking lots for vehicles at convenient points, ensuring that every large commercial building has adequate parking, halting the movement of heavy vehicles during peak hours, denying the registration of vehicles for those who already own a certain number of vehicles are some of the measures that should be considered.
We the petition signers request those concerned to accept our following demands:
http://praja.in/files/road\%20widening\%20BSS_0.pdf
01. Ensure that people's interest and NOT the interest of politician-bureaucrat-builder nexus is the focal point in all infrastructure development works including road widening.
02. Stop all road widening activities immediately and appoint a quasi-judicial body to oversee all matters related to infrastructure development.
03. Consider the reduction in traffic density due to Metro/Mono/LRT/BRT projects while deciding on road widening. Ensure on-time completion of these ongoing projects. Ensure reliable, affordable and rapid rail transit service.
04. Improve BMTC-managed public road transport service. Ensure sufficient number of buses connecting all parts of the city. Ensure optimal frequency. Ensure it is affordable to low income groups.
05. Scrap TDRs immediately.
06. Any road widening should be taken ONLY after:
clearance from the quasi judicial body
taking concerned citizens and forums into confidence
adequate compensation over and above market price and rehabilitation before any acquisition of property
protecting the interest of displaced tenants
07. Stop awarding projects to private contractors and builders. Government and civic agencies should take up all infrastructure development activities.
08. Ensure ecological balance, ensure that overall green cover is replenished and enriched by replanting even if felling of trees is warranted as the last resort.
09. Take immediate measures to arrest corruption in BBMP, BDA, BMRDA and other civic agencies and ensure stringent punishment to guilty.
10. Take measures to prevent vertical growth in the central parts of the city.
11. Make all information on planned on on-going infrastructure development projects freely available; provide all required information for queries under RTI Act.
12. Protect heritage sites, take stringent measures to prohibit any construction in and around such sites.
13. Enforce mandatory parking space in large multi-storey commercial, industrial or residential buildings.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/no-to-road-widening-in-bangalore
http://praja.in/files/road\%20widening\%20BSS_0.pdf
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-pedestrian-infrastructure
40,000 properties in Bangalore are likely to be demolished to widen 227 roads by displacing 38,000 to 2 lakh people for private vehicles. Pedestrians have no footpaths to walk. Road widenings must be stopped. Homes, properties and livelihoods of the citizens must be saved. Roads should be accessible for all sections of society.
With a lot of fanfare, BBMP has taken up widening of more than 220 roads across the city claiming that 'Road widening is inevitable to address the massive traffic woes'. Equally inevitable is the demolition of thousands of houses and shops - in whole or in part - displacing lakhs of people.
The process has started with many houses already flattened by the JCBs. There is palpable anxiety among the people in general and those who have received eviction notice in particular.
Save Bangalore Committee - a city level platform of citizens' forums - has raised the following serious questions and put forth relevant demands.
QUESTIONS: http://praja.in/files/road\%20widening\%20BSS_0.pdf
01. No doubt, traffic congestion is the bane of Bangalore city and urgent remedial measures are required. But is widening of roads, the most optimal measure? Which roads are most appropriate for widening and how is it decided? Are there other alternative options that do not warrant displacement? Has BBMP conducted any scientific study on these matters?
02. It is common knowledge that BMTC - the notorious public transport service - is the principal cause behind the ever-increasing number of vehicles on the city's roads that has crossed 32 lakhs. BMTC and the government should provide convenient, reliable and affordable transport service with sufficient number of buses covering all parts of the city. The number of ordinary buses has not kept pace with the growing population at all; but, air-conditioned 'Volvo' buses - that charge 4-5 times more than the regular fare and run empty during non-peak hours - are seen more and more on city's roads! Is it enough to declare a 'Bus Day' for cheap publicity? If public transport service is improved, it naturally results in lesser vehicle density. What measures are taken to meeting this growing demand?
03. Work has already begun on Metro rail project. Metro has promised a carrying capacity of 12.22 lakhs in 2011 (and 19.72 lakhs in 2021). If this snail-paced work is completed on schedule and rapid, reliable, inexpensive service is guaranteed, it is very likely that the number of private vehicles on the roads comes down. And, there are talks of Mono rail/LRT, BRT systems that promise to connect areas as far as Outer Peripheral Ring Road and act as feeder to Metro. Has BBMP considered all these aspects while deciding to widen the roads?
04. Has BBMP conducted an impact study on environment, green canopy cover and livelihood of the displaced people? What efforts are made to interact with concerned and affected citizens upfront and resolve the - questions and anxieties? Is it too much to expect that a project meant for 'public interest' be preceded by a 'public interaction'? How can a responsible elected civic agency like BBMP simply issue notices to people to vacate themselves or get vacated forcibly, that too, at their own cost? Is it democracy or autocracy?
05. Those stripped of their land or building, get neither money nor alternate site - traditional forms of compensation in such large infra projects. Instead, they get TDRs (Transferrable Development Rights). But the havoc wrecked by TDRs in Mumbai is well-known today. Private developers amassed TDRs under projects meant to rehabilitate slum dwellers in Mumbai. They used these TDRs (called 'Slum TDRs') to expand their property in prime areas like Bandra, Chembur, Khar, Santa Cruz that has led to haphazard and unrestrained development. This has resulted in poor quality construction, drinking water crisis, endless traffic snarls, packed roads and so on. What if this happens to Bangalore leading to a bigger infrastructure crisis than solving perhaps, a smaller one? TDR rates - similar to stock quotes - are market driven and private developers who can be influential manipulators are eyeing TDRs. So, if the TDR rates are down, the retail owners who surrender their land for TDRs could be the ultimate losers!
06. If you question the rationale behind TDRs, BBMP dodges it with an excuse: 'What to do? Our coffers are empty'! But why are they short of funds when they have an assured revenue worth thousands of crores? They collect property tax; they have JNNURM aid; Chief Minister (CM) Yeddyurappa has announced a fabulous grant of Rs.18,872 crores (driven largely by loans) in the last state budget meant for Bangalore infrastructure development in the next 3 years that includes roads and transport. In 2009-10, in terms of property tax, Chennai Corporation collected Rs.500 crore, Delhi Corporation collected Rs.700 crores but BBMP collected Rs.750 crores! What has BBMP done to arrest corruption and massive pilferage of public funds?
07. Even if people take recourse to legal action to get these glaring policy anomalies addressed, the courts are washing their hands off with a standard disclaimer that these infra projects are in 'larger public interest'. But, what is the prime mover of these projects? Public interest or the interest of politician-developer-bureaucrat nexus? Otherwise, why there is a pall of secrecy? Why the requests for information under RTI Act typically evoke no response from the Palike?
08. The politician-builder-bureaucrat evil nexus is garnering a large share of funds in the infrastructure corpus. Who will repay all the money borrowed from various sources including World Bank for the so-called development? Us or them?
09. Will this road widening scheme end with the current scope? Once this process - so obviously meant for the benefit of builders, mall owners and politicians - starts, will it not engulf the whole city like a wild fire?
10. Significantly, there are experts who have questioned this method of addressing traffic problem by widening roads. "Widening roads to ease traffic congestion is ineffective and expensive at the same time, it's like trying to cure obesity by loosening your belt." says Roy Kienitz, Executive Director of Washington - based Surface Transport Policy Project (STPP). An analysis of the respected Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) shows that the capacity improvement plans like widening of roads has had virtually no impact on traffic congestion in major US urban areas in the last 15 years. Has BBMP considered these expert opinions?
Justice M.F. Saldanha, former High Court judge said that all the 28 public interest litigations that were filed in the Karnataka High Court against the project were rejected. He opined that courts too have a duty to uphold people's right.
"We expect justice from the courts for the masses. Courts should also understand people's miseries," he said.
CONCLUSION:
Halting a madness Deccan Herald - DH Edit / Editorial - Saturday, Jul 03, 2010
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/78896/halting-madness.html
Road widen-ing is not the only solution for B'lore
Increasing the use of public transport, encouraging the construction of parking lots for vehicles at convenient points, ensuring that every large commercial building has adequate parking, halting the movement of heavy vehicles during peak hours, denying the registration of vehicles for those who already own a certain number of vehicles are some of the measures that should be considered.
We the petition signers request those concerned to accept our following demands:
http://praja.in/files/road\%20widening\%20BSS_0.pdf
01. Ensure that people's interest and NOT the interest of politician-bureaucrat-builder nexus is the focal point in all infrastructure development works including road widening.
02. Stop all road widening activities immediately and appoint a quasi-judicial body to oversee all matters related to infrastructure development.
03. Consider the reduction in traffic density due to Metro/Mono/LRT/BRT projects while deciding on road widening. Ensure on-time completion of these ongoing projects. Ensure reliable, affordable and rapid rail transit service.
04. Improve BMTC-managed public road transport service. Ensure sufficient number of buses connecting all parts of the city. Ensure optimal frequency. Ensure it is affordable to low income groups.
05. Scrap TDRs immediately.
06. Any road widening should be taken ONLY after:
clearance from the quasi judicial body
taking concerned citizens and forums into confidence
adequate compensation over and above market price and rehabilitation before any acquisition of property
protecting the interest of displaced tenants
07. Stop awarding projects to private contractors and builders. Government and civic agencies should take up all infrastructure development activities.
08. Ensure ecological balance, ensure that overall green cover is replenished and enriched by replanting even if felling of trees is warranted as the last resort.
09. Take immediate measures to arrest corruption in BBMP, BDA, BMRDA and other civic agencies and ensure stringent punishment to guilty.
10. Take measures to prevent vertical growth in the central parts of the city.
11. Make all information on planned on on-going infrastructure development projects freely available; provide all required information for queries under RTI Act.
12. Protect heritage sites, take stringent measures to prohibit any construction in and around such sites.
13. Enforce mandatory parking space in large multi-storey commercial, industrial or residential buildings.
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Syed Tanveeruddin
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- 1. Ensure that people's interest and NOT the interest of politician-bureaucrat-builder nexus is the focal point in all infrastructure development works including road widening. 2. Stop all road widening activities immediately and appoint a quasi-judicial body to oversee all matters related to infrastructure development. 3. Consider the reduction in traffic density due to Metro/Mono/LRT/BRT projects while deciding on road widening. Ensure on-time completion of these ongoing projects. Ensure reliable, affordable and rapid rail transit service. 4. Improve BMTC-managed public road transport service. Ensure sufficient number of buses connecting all parts of the city. Ensure optimal frequency. Ensure it is affordable to low income groups. 5. Scrap TDRs immediately. 6. Any road widening should be taken ONLY after: clearance from the quasi judicial body, taking concerned citizens and forums into confidence, adequate compensation over and above market price and rehabilitation before any acquisition of property -
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- and protecting the interest of displaced tenants. 7. Stop awarding projects to private contractors and builders. Government and civic agencies should take up all infrastructure development activities. 8. Ensure ecological balance, ensure that overall green cover is replenished and enriched by replanting even if felling of trees is warranted as the last resort. 9. Take immediate measures to arrest corruption in BBMP, BDA, BMRDA and other civic agencies and ensure stringent punishment to guilty. 10. Take measures to prevent vertical growth in the central parts of the city. 11. Make all information on planned on on-going infrastructure development projects freely available; provide all required information for queries under RTI Act. 12. Protect heritage sites, take stringent measures to prohibit any construction in and around such sites.13. Enforce mandatory parking space in large multi-storey commercial, industrial or residential buildings.
- Country, State, City/Town, Locality/Area, Association/NGO
- India, Karnataka, Mysore, Siddharthanagar, Karanji and Siddharthanagar Tax Payers' Association or KSTPA
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Mack David
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Mahesh Ramanna
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ramesh
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- no road widening
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- Cantt
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SRINIVASAN.S
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- Works should be stopped. Bangalore belongs to everybody. Govt. and its agencies should not take unilateral action. They should meet the suffering public who lose their property which cannot be compensated by any amount of money.
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- Road widening is NOT a solution to today's traffic congestion. There are various solutions for alternate arrangements. Expertise available in bangalore and India can easily solve the problem. What is required is the will to do.
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- Uttarahalli Main Road, Bangalore
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Dipti
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- Please DO not disrupt people's life time dreams of houses
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- You will put so many people on the streets just to widen it for somebody's earthly pleasures!
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- Bangalore
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NAGESWARAN SUBRAMANYAM
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- scientific approach to be adopted rather than going in for road widening by bulldozing regularised age old BDA properties of innocent and peace loving citizens. heritage of Bengaluru to be retained at any cost. Let us aim for bridging the gap between the rich and the poor without vested interest
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- Functioning of metro rail to be speeded up, rationalise registration of vehicles, improve public transport connecting all destinations at affordable cost.
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- India, Bengaluru, Chikalasandra
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B.N.Sitaraman
- Country, State, City/Town, Locality/Area, Association/NGO
- Chikkalasandra,Bangalore 61, India
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Susan Ibarra
- Country, State, City/Town, Locality/Area, Association/NGO
- USA, California Rohnert Park
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ramachandran
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- allow us to live
- Country, State, City/Town, Locality/Area, Association/NGO
- chikkalasandra,brigade residency
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Sreehari R
- Country, State, City/Town, Locality/Area, Association/NGO
- Flat 412, Brigade Residency, Uttarahalli Main Road
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Ravi Padaki
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Prakash Chittaranjan
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- Please do not destory Komarla Brigade Apartments for Road Widening..Lives of 180 residents and their families will be lost because of 10 feet demolition;
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- I RESIST ROAD WIDENING ON UTTARAHALLI MN ROAD especially at KOMARLA BRIGADE RESIDENCY
- Country, State, City/Town, Locality/Area, Association/NGO
- Chikkakala Sandra, Bangalore 560061
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Suresh S
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- Road widening will affect all of us negatively. The govt cannot turn a blind eye to the problems that house owners would face
- Country, State, City/Town, Locality/Area, Association/NGO
- Chikkalsandra, Bangalore
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K SUNDARARAJAN
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- Komarla Brigade Residents Welfare Assocaition, Uttarahalli Main Road, Chikkalasandra
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K SUNDARARAJAN
- Country, State, City/Town, Locality/Area, Association/NGO
- Komarla Brigade Residents Welfare Assocaition, Uttarahalli Main Road, Chikkalasandra
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G.S.Bhaskar
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- Time we had inclusive growth and stop harrassing citizens in the name of growth.My right to own and no Govt can just take it in the name of growth.Plan city and have planners not idiots who plan city every time it needs a road..
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- Plan layouts and retain the city charecter)heritage and culture a part of India.Let us stop aping the west and grow taking all.Stop city migration and encourage all to grwo in rural areas by proving them infrastructure.Remedy and solution to cities congestion,not depriving persons who purcahse with their lifetime saving.Do not displace but help them to live happily.
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- KBR
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Deepak Shetty
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- No to road widening. Pls hear the residents and understnad their problem before widening road.
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- A chance should be given for residents to voice their opinion. BBMP should not blindly mark the properties without even letting the residents know abt it. This is un-ethical
- Country, State, City/Town, Locality/Area, Association/NGO
- Bangalore Karnataka Uttarahalli Main Road
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M R Sundar
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- Demolishing existing structure by putting them in to the risk and making the building structurally weak and suscptiple to danger of fire and instability is not the correct solution for transport woes. Scientific approach to this problem will save Bengaluru and its residents for years to come.
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Sai Vishwanath
- Country, State, City/Town, Locality/Area, Association/NGO
- Brigade Residency A1214
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Prasad S Maganti
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- Due to this widening effort the Compound wall and near by Car parking which I bought from the builder Briage will be gone.
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- Hence I request not to take up this at this location. Instead an alternate can be looked at.
- Country, State, City/Town, Locality/Area, Association/NGO
- A-213, Brigade Residency, Uttarahalli Main Road, Bangalore-61
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Rajeev S Murthy
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- The selection of roads for widening has to be done judiciously. If the arterial roads are made signal free and facilitate fast movement of traffic, then the roads passing through predominantly residential areas need not be touched.
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- BBMP needs to look at a holistic approach. Just widening a road will postpone the congestion problem for couple of years at best.
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- KBR, Chikkalasandra, Bangalore
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gautam rajkhowa
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Aarti Venkatesh
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- a BIG NO to widening Uttarhalli Main Road
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Sridhar Nivarty
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- We are residents of Brigade Residency on Uttarahalli Road, and any widening of roads near our property is a recipe for disaster - in terms of safety, security, basic infrastructure, and quality of life. Please stop this hasty and ill-thought out process.
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- Bangalore.
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KrishnaKumar A
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- I have put my lifetime savings. please do not spoil it.
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- Why did BDA approve my apartment project plan in 2001 and putting me in trouble after 9 years ?
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- Uttarahalli Main Road
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Seeta Venkatraman
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- It is absolutely unfair on the part of the govt to displace and uproot the lives of so many people in the name of road widening. There are other options to ease out the traffic and the govt; should explore them first before blindly going after the hard-earned money of the general public.
- Country, State, City/Town, Locality/Area, Association/NGO
- Uttarahalli Main Road, Chikkallasandra
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Sriram Srinivasan
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- I agree with Justice Saldanha. Focus on public transportation.
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Alka Hingorani
- Country, State, City/Town, Locality/Area, Association/NGO
- Bangalore, India
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R Shekar
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- I request BBMP to consider acquiring the vacant land in front for road widening.
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- This will have the least impact to existing approved constructions
- Country, State, City/Town, Locality/Area, Association/NGO
- Brigade Residency Apts, Uttarahalli Main Road
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Rajashekar N Rao
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- Let there be a scientific and transparent way of defining needs for roads to be widened before taking up any project
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- Spending money just on such a high scale on road infrastructure without any basis is meaning less when we have Metro project being carried out
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- #104 Peace Haven Apartments
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M.R.Sundar
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- Please listen to experts , Logic&Rationale and not be coloured by the slush money at the expense of citizens livelihood. Remember one Emergency,turkman gate, Palika bazar construction was enough to bring the Mighty Indira post Bangla war success down. Donot, Please donot take people for granted . There are basic issues which require urgent attention of the government icluding good governance than these ill conceived mega projects. Banglorean voted you in and for better application of mind, consolidation of the brand and not convert it into a battle Field.
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- India, Karnataka,Bangalore,Uttarahalli, KBR APT OWNERS association.
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Rama Sundar
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- India, Karnataka, Bangalore, Uttarahalli,KBR APT OWNERS association
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Anirudh
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- India, Karnataka, Bangalore, Uttarahalli,KBR APT OWNERS association
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Varun
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- India, Karnataka,Bangalore,Uttarahalli,KBORA
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RAMA
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- road widening is not infrastructural development
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- bangalore india
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Sanjay J
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- There is no need to widen the Uttarahalli Main Road. The underpass at Kadrenahalli is being constructed for more than 2 years and there is no sign of it's completion. Once that is completed Govt/BBMP can review the situation and take appropriate decision. Once the underpass is completed there should be smooth flow of trafic.
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- Komarla Brigade Residency, Uttarahalli Main Road, Bangalore
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Harikumar Mahadevan
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Srinibas Patnaik
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- Is the road widening, by destroying properties and inconveniencing residents, the only solution to curb traffic and future traffic requirements? How many times you you would widen the roads? With metro network coming in, the number of vehicles on the roads would reduce. Impose heavy taxes for every new vehicles purchased.
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Shyamala Bhat
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- Please consider options that are not intrusive to already established residential homes and apartments
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Madhavan. P
- Country, State, City/Town, Locality/Area, Association/NGO
- Uttarahalli Main Road, Bangalore 560071.
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Guru Srinivasan
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Ajay Mahajan
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- this is one of the most critical issues before large Indian metro's and also smaller towns. Please pay full heed to these very considered, reasonable and urgent demands... citizens across cities who think beyond their personal selves are really feeling these issues are critical. Can the government please step forward and act like a people 'aam admi' oriented ecologically sensible entity. thinking in real terms of the present and future. For God's and everyone's sake, Wake up please.
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- India Delhi
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Sampath Kumar
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- Development of a city needs to happen but not at the cost of anyones property
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- We need to think more practically and promote public transport
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- Mantri Residency, Bannerghatta Road,
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Ravi Ramachanddra
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- Art of Living
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BV Rao
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- Widening arterial roads for 2 lane each-way trafic is reasonable; To meet the demands beyond that, authorities should think of other altrnatives - city should not be allowed to grow for such a necessity to arise.
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- India, Karnataka, Bangalore, Bannerghatta Road,Mantri Residency Appartment Owners' Association.
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Ashish Balaya
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- Educating drivers and enforcing road rules should first be tried before resorting to drastic measures like road widening.
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- Mantri Residency, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore
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Manish Kumar
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- No to Road Widening
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- No to Road Widening
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- Mantri Residency Bannerghatta Road
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Kirti Jindal
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- Works should be stopped. Bangalore belongs to everybody. Govt. and its agencies should not take unilateral action.
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- No to Road Widening
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- Mantri Residency Bannerghatta Road
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Shaji Gopal
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- Bannergatta Road, Bangalore
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