Users seek infrastructure on Mysuru-Bengaluru expressway for ‘self-explaining road’

Good roads are not essentially safe roads. Thus, when the government provides good roads, it’s also its responsibility to make them safer for road users, said a road safety expert.

It has to be noted that 84 persons have already lost their lives, while hundreds have been injured in 335 reported mishaps since September 2022, on the 118-km Mysuru-Bengaluru Express Highway even as some people, including politicians, have been complaining of improper design, sub-standard works and unscientific features of the Expressway.

Self-explaining road

“The Expressway is already being used by thousands of road users every day, since over six months. It is expected to be officially inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 12, Sunday, at Gejjalagere of Maddur taluk,