2 skywalks are needed on OMR - one infront of KR Pura Rly Stn and the other at Tin Factory. These 2 places are a nightmare.

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Mr Ram. You are absolutely correct. But the above areas are not falling under Bangalore City Corporation limits but are falling under "No cauvery Water / No drainage" areas. No body is bothered for those ares.

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Good theory. What about electricity? when there is no electricity even for residential usage how is this going to work? It will be full of beggers sitting on either side in 2 minutes. Just watch. Instead just do roundbaouts and make rules and keep police to monitor traffic and clear the traffic and pedestrians fast. Not everyone especially elderly can walk using them. BBMP needs to get out its ivory tower

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Instead of wasting money on skywalks ,let them build urinals since most the public places has become Public urinals in Bangalore .First of all BBMP is wasting the money collected from the public on SAS are being squandered with out cleaning the storm water drains which are lying unattended and to cite few examples Koramangala Opposite Total Mall, JC road cross,Mysore Road.There is no road cleaning is taking place in Kanakpura median area so much of accumulation dust and sand which are not cleared for years together.What far people have to pay SAS tax if the money has not been spent on public health and sanitation.Two wheelers are unable to drive due to pot hole all over the road ,sand accumulation which no one bother to attend.If you start any construction ,local Junior Engineer is there to collect his share of booty .Are we here to pay only salary of the Corporation Staff. Government is not taking anything on that count.Local Administration should be handled by some other agency other than corporation .Look at other states like Tamilnad.They have given the contract to outside agencies who will take care of everything why not practice the same situation.Place like chennai is better maintained by outsourcing agencies.Let wisdom preavails.

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This Yeddi and his followers totally immersed in Bangalore 24/7 like a poor rug pickers to make a living out of Bangaloreans bribe money and also stealing poor farmers lands to build their summer palaces like a small Kings.

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Bye Bye. you have lost your marbles I suppose. Hardly a fraction of the tax collected from the city is spent on the infrastructure.

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I request BBMP to consider installing one at Central Silk Board junction.In my openion looking at the traffic one is essential.

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Why not BBMP think skywalks some part of Outer Ring Road Tin Factory to Hebbal and Old Madras Road Hanging Bridge to Bus Station.Outer Ring Road skywalks BBMP can also study Byappanahally Metro Station to Old Madras Road.

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It will definitely be a boon to the old and disabled. good thinking

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indeed this is a good move. at last the BBMP is thinking of the pedestrians. all the time it was road widening. disappearing footpaths. hope this sees the dawn of the day. :)

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glad for propasals for escalators,but how did you forget at jayanagar complex.soecialy many oldies use this

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Good to see to build the skywalks with escalators. That is the only way to go to meet the traffic demand and pedestrians. Government must do much more actions like this to make the Bangalore traffic friendly, it is a long way to go. What it needs to have the politicians to be serious about the unmanageable bangalore traffic!!

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Our Indian politicians should simply go to Europe or US and learn not just gape on how beautiful these places are.

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There is only one long term solution for Bangalore: build a well planned twin city

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If u want a beautiful view just go to europe or someother place. I agree Blore was beautiful, but with the growing population ,these are necessary.It will definetly help people> just think of people are old/ diabled. Anything to help people is good. Specially roads, and free flow of traffic.

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No, I want the beautiful city in bengaluru! I fully agree these are needed and much more. But why build something good and plaster ugly poster all over?

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Another scheme to deface our city. In their greed for money, both BBMP and the operators of these skywalks will plaster those with ugly advertisements. Another eyesore for our once beautiful city!

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Nothing makes people happy. Everything the government does is wrong

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Not if done properly and ugly advertisements are allowed. Why the city is not doing it on tax payers money? Do we have to endure miles and miles of ugly cici adverts? Adverts everywhere!

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The only thing that this move smells of is dirty money from advertising .BBMP is not keen on coming up with these skywalks where it is genuinely needed but in places where advertising is needed . Yes, we need these at ORR, Silk board junction, Gopalan Mall Mysore rd, JC Rd, KG Rd , Opposite to Majestic,City market and shivajinagar bus stands,Opp RBI, Near govt polytechnic bus stand where thousands of women and students fight to cross the busy sheshadri road , Tin Factory, ITPL, MG Rd/Brigade Road Junction, kumble circle, Cash pharmacy Jn, Richmond Rd near flyover etc and all the roads where it is contemplated in the tender are bogus skywalks for advertisement purposes, like the stupid bus stands that are built in the midddle of nowever only for advertisements only. I guess it is time for people to wake up and trash this mindless and mad policy decision and I dare Deccan Herald to raise this issue in their main broadsheet and editorials. We have been seeing that Bus shelters are being built and demolished in 2-3 years time only to make money out of Advertisemnt revenues only and people and citizenry are not the main concern in planning these amenities. Shame on BBMP and shame on Us Bangaloreans because they are so laidback and spineless we see the authorities acting in the manner they are acting , it is of no use just blogging on these issues people should come out to the streets and protest these mindless moves. I stay in NY and people and courts would have interfered. AMEN.

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