Hassan, Sept 20: The much awaited Bengaluru-Mysuru 10 lane road at a cost of Rs 7000 crore will began in a month, Karnataka Minister for PWD H D Revanna said here on Thursday.
He was speaking at a function organised by the Hassan district unit of the Government Employees’ Association here on Wednesday.
Reacting to allegations that the coalition government was yet to take off, Mr Revanna said the government had taken up development works on all fronts.
“During my tenure as PWD Minister, the four-laning of Mysuru-Bengaluru road was completed. Now the road will be widened to a 10-lane one.
Once the expressway is ready, it will take just 90 minutes to reach Mysuru from Bengaluru. The expressway will cover a distance of 118 km between Pancha mukhi temple after NICE road in Bengaluru and Columbia Asia hospital junction in Mysuru. The NHAI project will have six bypasses at Bidadi, Ramanagar, Channapattana, Maddur, Mandya and Srirangapattana.
Of the 10-lanes, six lanes in the middle will operate on a toll-basis while the two lanes on either side of expressway will be service roads.
According to the detailed project report by the consultant Secon, the expressway will have an average daily traffic of 60,000 passenger car units. The expressway is expected to give healthy returns to the investor given the rising volume of traffic between the two cities. State officials are confident that NHAI will make a decent earning once the project is open.
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