To address Bengaluru’s growing traffic issues, the Karnataka government is considering extending the Bengaluru Metro Rail network to Hoskote, Nelamangala, and Bidadi, Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar announced on Wednesday. Speaking in the Karnataka Assembly in Belagavi, Shivakumar responded to a query from MLA Sharath Bache Gowda regarding severe congestion on the Old Madras Road between KR Puram and Hoskote. …
Starting April 1, as part of its annual revision, the National Highways Authority of India has raised toll rates on the access-controlled Bengaluru-Mysuru and Bengaluru-Hyderabad highways, and on the Hoskote-Devanahalli section of the Bengaluru Satellite Town Ring Road. Light commercial vehicles, light goods vehicles, and minibuses will now pay ₹275 for a single journey and ₹415 for a return journey, …
The floating of a global tender for the Peripheral Ring Road project by the Bangalore Development Authority has made Ponnappa B.C., a retired government employee, very anxious. After causing all kinds of hardships, now after a gap of 17 to 18 years, the BDA wants to take up the project again but at what cost?” Some of the farmers who …
