Last year, Zoomcar, India’s biggest self-drive rental car company, surveyed 22 cities using its proprietary drive scoring system and declared Mysuru had the worst drivers in the country! Based on yesterday’s SOM report, the survey’s assessment seems right. The report stated that in just five months of the Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway opening, there have been 570…
Mandya: The newly constructed Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway is proving to be deadly with 55 people losing their lives in accidents on the Expressway in the past five-months. The accidents and deaths are mainly attributed to over-speeding and negligence on the part of vehicle drivers. 55 km of the 118 km Expressway comes under Mandya district and…
We must admit our lack of competence in development of Highways and Expressways By V. N. Prasad Recently, I saw a video titled “China’s mind-bending mega bridge: A magical journey on the world’s most complex overpass.” It is worth watching a million times. Road traffic converging at a junction is so beautifully (I mean technically)…
Ramanagar: A fight over toll between the staff of a Toll Plaza and a group of youths ended in the murder of the toll plaza staff near Sheshagirihalli Toll Plaza in Ramanagar taluk on Sunday midnight. The deceased has been identified as Pavan Kumar (26), a resident of Karikal Tandya in Bengaluru South taluk. At…
Mandya: Two persons suffered serious injuries while three others sustained minor injuries when the car in which they were travelling toppled on Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway near Chikkamandya yesterday afternoon. The seriously injured are 30-year-old Arjun and 25-year-old Manjunath G. Adiga of Bengaluru. All the five occupants of the car were travelling from Bengaluru to Mysuru and…
Many places have gaping holes where the entire chain-link sheets have been cut and taken away Srirangapatna: After the theft of stainless-steel angles (metal bars) fixed on electric poles on Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway, a new theft has come to light where the chain-link fencing on both sides of the Highway is being cut and taken away….
We are a nation of vandals — wilful destroyers of what is beautiful or venerable. Be it painting love quotes on rocks, etching perverse rhymes on elevator doors, breaking art installations, slashing bus seats, stealing street lights or cutting fences on the new Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway, we are constantly defacing, stealing or destroying public property. Mysuru-Kodagu…
Absconding accused nabbed Mysore/Mysuru: An Anganwadi activist was allegedly murdered using an iron road at a bakery in Siddalingapura near Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway on Wednesday evening and the accused, who had gone absconding was nabbed by the Police the next morning. The deceased has been identified as Mamata (31), who was working at Kerethonnur Anganwadi Centre…
KSRTC’s e-bus service has over 1,000 daily happy customers By S.T. Ravikumar Mysore/Mysuru: The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation’s (KSRTC) intercity electric bus (e-bus) between Mysuru and Bengaluru on the Expressway built between the two cities has seen an overwhelming response from the passengers who are using the service with more frequency now. The trial…
Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway to be closed for vehicular traffic from 11 am to 4 pm Mysuru/Mandya: If you are planning to travel to Bengaluru or move around in Mysuru city centre on Apr. 30 (Sunday), then you need to avoid certain routes to stay away from the Prime Minister’s convoy. According to an official notification, vehicular…
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