Bengaluru: Just a few months before the assembly elections, the BBMP went on a white topping spree, literally bringing the city to its knees. It went on concretise 93.47 km of roads at a cost of Rs 723.71 crore. Works were simultaneously taken up on Hosur Road, Mysuru Road, Vijayanagar, Seshadripuram, Koramangala, Adugodi and Banaswadi, throwing the all-ready traffic choked city into a tizzy. When angry citizens berated the BBMP for unending traffic jams, the Palike said it will complete the stretches where the works have commenced and take up new ones later only if the traffic police can provide alternative routes to motorists.
The BBMP which was supposed to resume white topping works and complete them by September 2018 is yet to resume the works and complete the stretches that were half-done.
On Mysuru Road, Adugodi and Koramangala, motorists are still struggling to ride. Mr Sharath, a resident of Guddadahalli on Mysuru Road, said. "Every day, we have to lift the vehicle and put it on white topped Mysore Road. I have seen people who don’t know the condition of the unfinished roads falling from their vehicles. If they could not finish the works, they should not have taken them up at all.”
A top BBMP engineer said that works might resume only after the monsoon is over. “IMD has stated that monsoon has officially entered the city. If Bengaluru receives rains like last year, BBMP will not have any option but to resume the works after monsoon.”
