@Colonelorp one thing to observe is no matter how stauch advaitin one is they never put basma to vishnu like they do it to other dities
i am sure there is something behind this too
Bengaluru deserves scientific urban planning, not ‘political engineering’.
This expert endorsement being showcased in favour of Tunnel Road was done by a Congress party spokesperson - first a politician, only later an engineer. And unsurprisingly, it concludes that the ONLY way to decongest Bengaluru is to build tunnels and multi-layer roads. This itself reveals the lack of understanding of urban planning and transportation science.
Opposition to Tunnel Roads is not because of any civil engineering impossibility.
It is because - these tunnels will NOT decongest Bengaluru. It will make matters worse.
Spending thousands of crores on a private-vehicle VIP corridor - that does not serve public transport - is fundamentally wrong.
When transit studies show that mass rapid transport can move close to 70,000 people per hour per direction, it is foolish to invest in expensive tunnels that only moves 1800 cars per hour per direction.
Why spend huge money to benefit a tiny minority of vehicle owners?
Instead of encouraging public transport, why are we subsidising private car ownership?
This report also conveniently ignores environmental impact, hydrology risks and geological threats.
The Lalbagh Rock formation is 3 billion years old - yet no serious study has been done on the consequences of tunnelling beneath it.
That is why we have demanded an independent scientific study by:
• National Institute of Rock Mechanics
• Geological Survey of India
• National Institute of Hydrology
• Central Institute of Mining & Fuel Research
But instead of independent assessment, we are handed a political endorsement by a party worker masquerading as an engineer.
The report also conveniently lies about project costing. It says the per kilometre cost for the tunnel will be 440 crores. The Congress expert could have at least read the DPR once - which picks the cost at over 1000 crores per kilometre. But who cares for facts?
For a resource limited country like ours, every rupee must move more people, more efficiently and more safely.
Tunnels for cars will not solve congestion. Mass Rapid transport will.
After the CM awarded himself a “dummy world record certificate” from a non-existent firm, we now have the DCM awarding a “project expert endorsement” by a Congress party engineer - a perfect continuation of Congress’s 2023 ಕಿವಿ ಮೇಲೆ ಹೂವು campaign.