BENGALURU: With GAIL Gas pipeline network coming in the way of its alignment, Namma Metro’s Phase 2 project appears to have run into rough weather.
Sources said Metro’s Gottigere-Nagawara, RV Road-Bommasandra, Silk Board-KR Puram and KR Puram- Kempegowda International Airport lines are likely to be delayed if GAIL Gas and Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation (BMRCL) don’t resolve the issues. On Gottigere-Nagawara corridor, for instance, GAIL Gas’s eight-inch steel pipeline is close to the proposed underground Pottery Town Metro station. BMRCL along with GAIL Gas recently conducted a joint site visit at Pottery Town. GAIL Gas has now agreed to shift the pipeline about 200m away.
At Silk Board junction, where an interchange station of RV Road-Bommasandra and Silk Board-KR Puram lines is planned, about 200 metres of steel pipeline has to be relocated. Separately, GAIL Gas has asked BMRCL to realign 700 metres of Metro line of the Silk Board-Agara Lake stretch on Outer Ring Road to avoid shifting of GAIL Gas’s pipeline, which is now under the discussion stage.
