No crash barrier on a stretch between Gangothri Extension and Chaduranga Road Mysore/Mysuru: It seems the civic woes related to Bogadi Road is far from over, although the incidents of four lives lost in freak accidents on the same stretch of road still remain fresh in the minds of the people. In separate cases, three…
Mysore/Mysuru: Following reports of accidents owing to unscientific laying of concrete medians on Bogadi Road and a news item titled ‘Bogadi Road concrete median causes near-fatal accident’ published in Star of Mysore on Feb. 14, the Krishnaraja Traffic Police have installed warning signboards to alert motorists of the possible danger at Dr. M.B. Padma Circle…
Mysore/Mysuru: Even as memories of recent fatal accidents caused by unscientific road humps and a fallen tree on Bogadi Road remain fresh in people’s minds, randomly placed concrete medians sans reflectors are now posing a serious threat to commuters. In an incident last night on Bogadi Road, a 59-year-old man (name withheld on request) narrowly…
Now, who should be held accountable for three deaths? Mysore/Mysuru: The heated public discourse surrounding the perceived negligence of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) authorities in installing unscientific speed-breakers near the Main Gate of Manasagangothri, the PG campus of University of Mysore (UoM) on Bogadi Main Road, resulting in the tragic deaths of 3 individuals…
The PWD wanted to fell this tree while widening the road a few years ago. Star of Mysore was also for cutting the tree for widening the road. But some environmentalists objected to it and the tree was saved. Now a precious life is lost. The road was widened haphazardly around the tree making it…
South Gate of Manasagangothri, injuries, loss of precious lives, damages to vehicles, trauma et al. By V.N. Prasad At the outset, my heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families and sympathies to the injured ones. Don’t worry. No one will be brought to books, much less punished. However, high time a strong ‘engineering jurisprudence’ was put…
Mysore/Mysuru: Following the death of three youths (Yashwanth, Shivan and Kumar) in separate road accidents by unscientific road humps near Manasagangothri main gate on Bogadi road here recently, Anveshana Seva Trust has demanded that the Officers concerned should cough up compensation on their own, not the Government. Addressing media persons at Patrakarthara Bhavana this morning,…
PWD Engineers find the humps unscientific after conducting inspection Mysore/Mysuru: Finally, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) authorities woke up to the alarming situation by removing the newly-laid road humps (speed-breakers) that were found unscientific by PWD Engineers, near the main gate of Manasagangothri, the PG campus of University of Mysore on Bogadi road in the city…
Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner Ashaad-Ur-Rahman Shariff said that following rise in accidents on Bogadi Road and SJCE Main Road (Chaduranga Road), various competent authorities had written several letters to the MCC and also exerted pressure over the phone. Similarly, Traffic Police had also made several representations, in the light of which we acted…
Mysore/Mysuru: Like a good old adage in Kannada- Jana Marulo Jatre Marulo, passersby vied with each other to own the look alike products of branded companies, in city yesterday. Tens of people split in four groups occupying footpath spaces on the either side of Regional Institute of Education (RIE) building on Bogadi Road in city,…
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