In a bid to decongest Bengaluru, D K Shivakumar, the Bengaluru Development Minister, held many meetings with experts and infrastructure specialists. In one such meeting sprang the idea of a tunnel road network for the city.
While reports say it would be along the now-junked six elevated corridors, there is nothing on record other than the minister’s statement that tunnel roads may be one of the solutions, and the feasibility will be studied along with other solutions.
Incidentally, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) called a tender seeking expression of interest to prepare a ‘Comprehensive Bengaluru City infrastructure plan to decongest and to prepare comprehensive traffic management plan’. The tender mentions the ‘feasibility of vehicular tunnel’, though the details of length and alignment will only be known after the proposals are evaluated and accepted.
