Bengaluru: Following heavy rains and lake breaches, traffic on the 10-lane Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway is frequently coming to a standstill, forcing the traffic Police at Ramanagara to divert the vehicular traffic through Kanakapura and Malavalli. In a tweet this morning, former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK) advised people not to take the Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway but opt…
Status of 10-lane Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway: Six more months to prevent floodwater flow above road
August 10, 2022Bengaluru: The recent rain and the lake breach along the work-in-progress 10-lane Mysuru-Bengaluru Economic Corridor (Expressway) has made the authorities realise that there is still plenty of work to be done on the road front to control the flow of water. The authorities have conceded that it will take a minimum of six months to…
Boodanur Lake breaches near Mandya: Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway traffic diverted via Maddur, Bharathinagar
August 3, 2022Mandya: Traffic on the busy Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway has been closed following flooding of the Highway as Boodanur Lake near Mandya has breached following heavy rains on Monday night. The lake was full to the brim and the bund breached. A large quantity of water from the lake flooded the Highway, bringing vehicular movement to a…
Status of 10-lane Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway: Main carriageway to open in October this year: MP
July 22, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Amidst reports that the 10-lane Mysuru-Bengaluru Economic Corridor (Expressway) will not be open anytime soon, Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha has clarified that the main carriageway of the Expressway will be open to traffic by October this year. During the Dasara High-Powered Committee meeting in Bengaluru on July 19, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai told reporters…
MP holds talk on link roads of new Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway near Maddur
July 14, 2022Bengaluru: With works on the ten-lane Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway being expedited, Mandya MP Sumalatha Ambarish held discussions with National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) officials and a couple of Congress leaders at Bengaluru on Monday. The entry and exit points from Nidaghatta and Channegowdanadoddi near Maddur to the new Highway from Maddur-Malavalli, Maddur-Nagamangala, Maddur-Tumakuru and Maddur-Halagur…
Fake accident menace returns to haunt commuters
July 10, 2022Mandya: A miscreant, who waylaid a car on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway, has extorted Rs. 23,000 from a Bengaluru resident after creating a fake accident story and threatening the car driver with a knife. The incident took place near the Factory Circle in Mandya. One T.S. Chandrashekar, a resident of Bengaluru, was proceeding towards Bengaluru from Mysuru…
Intelligent Transport System on Mysuru-Bengaluru 10-lane Highway: Hi-tech touch for commuter safety
June 22, 202224×7 Central Command Centre with LED screens to monitor and relay real-time data To check lane discipline; Medical help to reach within minutes in case of accidents Mysore/Mysuru: In an attempt to minimise traffic woes and enhance the safety of commuters on the Mysuru-Bengaluru 10-lane Highway, an AMR sensor-based Intelligent Transport System (ITS) will be…
Day-long traffic bottleneck at Manipal Hospital Junction
June 13, 2022Many vehicles had to wait for over two hours in bumper-to-bumper traffic Mysore/Mysuru: It will be a daunting task for the Traffic Police to regulate the long line of VIPs and Government officers from the Centre and State who are scheduled to arrive in Mysuru by road from Bengaluru and other places on the International…
Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway: High Toll, Low Strain?
June 12, 2022By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A headline in Star of Mysore two days ago, proclaimed that those of us wishing to travel between Mysuru and Bengaluru along the new highway that is now getting ready for us, should get ready to pay anywhere between Rs. 200 to Rs. 250 as travel toll between the…
Debris-laden truck topples on highway
June 12, 2022A truck carrying debris jumped over the road diver and toppled on the other side of the Mysuru-Bengaluru, disrupting traffic for more than an hour. Vehicles were lined up for more than three kilometres on the highway till Srirangaptana Town Police reached the spot and cleared the debris first and then got the truck cleared…
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