Bengaluru: The ongoing construction work of the Mysuru-Bengaluru 10-lane Highway NH275 will be completed by October 2022, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has said. In a series of tweets yesterday, the Minister said that once completed, the travel time between Bengaluru and Mysuru will be reduced to 75 minutes.
The Minister said the Bengaluru-Nidaghatta-Mysuru section is 117-km-long and has been developed at a cost of Rs. 8,350 crore. The 10-lane project includes a six-lane access controlled highway with four-lane service roads on either side. Currently, a four-lane highway passes via congested towns.
“This road will substantially reduce the travel time from Bengaluru to Mysuru from three hours to 75 minutes only. It will enhance connectivity between the two important cities and provide an impetus to tourism and economy in the region,” said the Union Minister.
Gadkari thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for expediting infrastructure projects like the Mysuru-Bengaluru highway in a corruption-free, transparent and time-bound manner. Motorists will get a 10-lane road on a stretch of 117 kms from Bengaluru to Mysuru.
Gadkari further said that the state-of-the-art project has multiple structures, such as an 8-km-long elevated corridor, nine major bridges, 42 minor bridges, four railway over-bridges and five bypasses, which will ease traffic congestion and significantly reduce pollution.
The Centre approved the project in September 2014 and Gadkari laid the foundation stone on March 24, 2018. The highway will have more than 8-km-long elevated corridor in three segments — 4.5 km near Bengaluru, 3.8 km at Maddur and 400 metres at Srirangapatna.
The works have been divided into two phases: Bengaluru-Nidaghatta and Nidaghatta-Mysuru sections. A 4.22-km flyover is being built near Panchamukhi Ganesha temple. The Bengaluru-Mysuru section will have 53 kms of Greenfield roads in the form of bypasses: Bidadi (7 km), Ramanagara-Channapatna (22 km), Maddur (7 km, including 3.5 km of elevated highway), Mandya (10 km) and Srirangapatna (7 km).
A new lay-by (an area at the side of a road where vehicles can stop for a short time) with all amenities will be created at the Ramanagara bypass road and toll booths will come up at Kumbalgodu and Srirangapatna.
The max speed we are allowed to drive even on the best highway in Karnataka is 80 kmph. Then how is it possible to cover this distance in 75 minutes?
Will over speeding allowed ?
This is funny, People should Thank only if it was free to use, its been again under Toll, so we pay for what we use, also its not from Modi Pocket its constructed its Public Tax Money ! Always taking credit for everything with money taken from Public Pockets !
How else do you promote yourself ?
Dear Sir,
I am sharath Gowda writing on behalf of all people from South of Karnataka, Mysore & Bangalore region.
We all are great full to you about the 10 lane highway getting constructed at record pace between Bangalore & Mysore which is coming out exceptionally good.
But we have concerns with regards to the quality of works being done by Dilip Road con. company whom the works have been tenderd. While you are dreaming (we all are dreaming), aiming for American standards road, looks like this road quality, infra is not upto the mark. Elevated wall look like tumbling. Barricade looks like already rusted & going to loose in few time. Drain coverings are very inferior. The same quality output was done by the same company for another road between Mysore Nanjangud highway.
– We need flat roads which makes the vehicle glide, not shake.
– We need good road markings with indication of tracks, speed limits, direction arrows which is the key to avoid accidents.
We request you to depute for quality surveys & please get us international standard roads that you & we all are dreaming off.
Hope you take consideration of our request.
Thanks & Regards
Sharath Gowda
99025 66661
Surprising to see people without National Highway knowledge wanted this road to be free.
So you expect national highway constructed by private company to be free.
I bet you have some knowledge on National highways before misleading people.
Excellent news indeed for people of Mysore. Please do something about training lorry drivers to stay in left lane.
It takes 40 mins to get out of Bengaluru city limits, and 25 mins from Mysore city limits. How can one travel in 75mins from Bengaluru to Mysore? Say from Bengaluru city outskirts to Mysore City outskirts it takes 75 mins, not from center of the two cities..
The existing 5-lne highway, which should be sufficient for a road link between two cities i a developed Western country, is already congested in the Bangalore-Mysore case. This 10-lane highway will go the same way as the country increases the population at the rate of adding one Australian population every six months, with Indians multiplying like rabbits.
So ,thanks to the visionary Narendra Modi, the emphasis on tourism and development means Mysore gets the huge hit with massive increase in population . Within 2 decades, the Mysore city perimeter stretching all the way towards Bangalore, to meet the Bangalore city perimeter expanding in the direction of Mysore! So there will be a twin-city of Bangalore-Mysore!
For the time being, Modi using the Russian oil ban from Western countries, is getting the oil stock destined there ,with a discount. Howl ong this is going to last? What will be implication of petrol price for car-loving Indians? Electric cars are not in main stream cars, and even if they become, they cannot go 100 miles without their batteries recharged. The logistics of locating chargers in massive number on the way, the queues for them, the time taken to fully charge etc.. Still, then, 75minutes for the journey time? What about the power requirement for the chargers, the power outages, which is a normal occurrence these days?
Finally, the SOM, Mr Ganapthy, Barmy Shenoy and Ballal are all howling about saving the Chamundi Hill-they all drive cars I presume. These tourists arriving from large tourist busses from Bangalore ,thanks to the 10-lane highway, would certainly want to take their large tourist busses up the hill through the Hill road in a seamless sight-seeing/Temple -visiting journey. Even without a Rope Way, this situation certainly results the destruction of the Hill’s geographical structure, with earth slides, chipping off slices of the Hill structure, after receiving massive pounding of these numbers of rolling vehicles every day. The temple authorities and the priests are rubbing their hands with glee, and they laugh all the way to their banks, depositing their wads of Rupee bills into their personalaccounts, after having milked the tourists with a number of special darshans of the deity!!
correction: It is existing 4-lane highway.
Experience shows, providing more resources leads to even more people using them, needing even more resources and it is endless march.
the existing 4-lane highway, leading to this 10-lane highway, and then what?
It is not as simple as increasing tourism, which itself sounds as destruction to the iconic Chamundi Hill, as its road is already stressed to the level of resulting in frequent large earth slides, it is more like the shape of things to come.
Poor Mysore city, hit with this 10-lane highway, the proposed Hassan-Kodagu-Kerala highway, the expanded Mysore airport taking in jetliners and the Mysore-Chennai superfast trains. The notion of Greater Mysore is fast becoming a reality as Mysore expands in all the directions, clearing further swath of forests, more numbers of housing developments, businesses large and small locating in the Greater Mysore..
I have not heard any minister of any country in the world saying what this Gadkari says:”,.. in a corruption-free, transparent… “,which does mean acknowledging opaque, and massive corruption in all projects in India!
The poster above, has detailed the issues related to the usage of cars.
The toll booth operator job will be very lucrative, as car owners wanting to jump in front of the long toll queues, with hundreds of Rupees changing hands!
In the debate of saving the Chamundi Hill, which is a futile exercise anyway,, as this Hill cannot be saved given the massive numbers of people visiting the Hill top, most of them using the Hill road, The gainers are the temple administration and the priests. They are already making eye-watering amounts of cash destined to their personal accounts, through a number of scams that facilitate the rich devotees getting special darshan of the Goddess-after all they deserve it, they argue, having come all the way from a distance!
Every priest, besides getting the prasadams prepared for sale for free every day, almost free housing with electricity and water bills at least partly subsidised,, is rich- awashed with cash, thanks to these devotees who put generous mounds of cash on the arati plate plus the wads of Rupee bills thrust to the main priest hand, who takes special care of them, blessing with akshata and kumkum on their foreheads, 2in the Goddess’s sanctum sanctorum, with the Goddess looking , knowing she will not object to this!
Hello Sharath Gowda
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Hello Sharath Gowda
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General Eisenhower who was US president in 1950s, created the interstate highways in his country, for the purpose of moving military equipment in the event of a war. He abandoned the expansion of rail roads ,which he later regretted as these interstate highways, created the car culture in his country, which was pricing a gallon of gas ( petrol) cheaper than that of a bottle of water! The Yom Kippur war between Israel and Arab states1970s, changed the price of the gas; now the Americans have to fork out a considerable sum of money on gas, as they have to use the car to travel to work, and all other activities like shopping etc.. as they have large malls outside their cities to which they have to drive.
They long for highspeed trains and metros ,and often look with jealousy in their eyes, when they travel to Europe, use the high speed trains and metros , besides getting free treatment in the public service accident and emergency services ( ER services).
The car culture has gripped Indians; at first not as a necessity but as a bragging privilege to show case their new cars. Asa poster above put it, what happens if the price of petrol which is already in the upward trend still moves upwards, and the electric cars arriving needing charging at least once on the highway? There are related issue that poster highlighted too.
This10-lane highway will get congested within a few years. Then those who can afford will be using the air travel between the two cities, as the airport gets expanded, and Bangalore becomes a stop over city. I can also seethe development of Wayanad to Mysore highway, along with the planned Hassan-Kodagu-Kerala highway.
Welcome Kerala brothers and sisters as new residents of Greater Mysore, and your businesses linking the Gulf States, and thanks to the availability of gold ingots as Rupees is not worth having any more!
Bless our Bharata Ratna Modi ( he is not yet, but will get it soon!) for ensuring Musore becomes another Bangalore soon. Chamundi Hiill and nature? Forget it, they are small issues!!
Dear citizens, what ever you ask for change it won’t happen, just enjoy the ride to Mysore. If anyone doesn’t want to pay. Use normal roads..
This is karma of of citizens…
Good luck….
The SOM readers
Enjoy your travelsto Bangalore and back. If you own even a modest house in Mysore, rest reassured that it will go for tens of crores in the next 5 years, when the newcomers queue to buy it. Now, it is time for those who do not own a house, to build it or buy it soon,, and see it appreciating many times its original value, thanks to your Tamil and Keralite brothers!
This 10-lane highway plus others to come as posters mentioned will spin off a bonanza of SOM articles by the members of the Grahachara crowd like Chndra Prakash as well as by Ballal, who will change the tack yet again to tourism expansion, tourists visiting the Chamundi Hill etc.. without any shame!
But above all, wait for articles by Javeed Nayeem, with narratives of of his highway experience, saving the lives of drivers on the way, and discovering that the patient is none other than his best friend the honourable foreign minister of India, who he played with in his visits to New Delhi as a child, in the vicinity of Red Fort!
Not to be undone, you could also expect a personal letter to Modi by Barmy Shenoy offering a free membership to his Grahachara outfit, and asking him to cancel the Rope Way project dreamed up by his minion, the moustached Basavaraja Bommai, and instead proving a chain of roads to travel up the Hill!
How can u expect the quality work from a company like Dilip BuildCon which is patronised by Highways Minister.
As some body commented it is going to have heavy toll on already brimming Mysuru city infra.
No body cares for the sustainable development.Development is sinonimous with distruction.
Population control will pave the way for sustainable development. At the present rate India will overtake many of the countries combined in population.
Hi am a frequent traveller on this road…. I don’t mind paying toll but want quality road…. Just wondering if it was so easy to built roads why was this road was not built before
Hope Karnataka Govt won’t install Road Humps on the way.speed limit to be increased to 120km. Lane marking should be done including toll area. Have seen worst toll mangement in Karnataka toll centers.
In Karnataka, unlike TN, Guj or Mah, no other city except Bangaluru, has industries worth mentioning! Everything including Corona is crowded in Bangaluru only! So what is the use of increase in no. of lanes? Tier 2 cities viz. Mysuru, Mangaluru, Hubballi, etc has changed only in spelling!! BJP Govt should be aware of this!!! So MY Dear BJP try to DECONGEST Bangaluru before the elections in 2023. Incentivise shifting of industries to MYS/TUMAKURU/MANGALURU.