‘Red’ alert: 168 km of Bengaluru roads are unmotorable
Nearly three months after Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai shocked everyone by saying the government had spent a whopping Rs 20,060 crore in the last five years on maintaining roads in Bengaluru, the BBMP has come up with a list of streets spanning 168.21 km that require immediate repairs worth dozens of crores.
The list of damaged roads drawn up by the BBMP’s major roads division clearly shows the Rs 20,060 crore hasn’t been well-spent. Senior BBMP officials assessing the roads say that of the city’s 1,261.36 km of major roads (arterial and sub-arterial), nearly 168 km of roads are not motorable and need immediate reconstruction.
