Over the past year, work on the Sivananda Circle stumbled to a halt, while the Kundalahalli underpass has staggered and is finally opened up.
These are among a series of projects that froze as authorities failed to acquire properties needed for their completion, causing endless traffic snarls rather than removing the bottlenecks.
“If we had acquired the properties beforehand, we could have completed the project at least two years earlier,” said a BBMP engineer who worked at the Kundalahalli underpass project site.
Asked why the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) runs into such hurdles in almost every project, a senior BBMP official said the civic body had no Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).
