Mangalore cityscapes, Projects

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Jeppinamogaru-Kannur Road gets green signal

Summa: 50 meters width Jeppinamogaru (Netravati Bridge) to Adyar/Kannur 6 km fourlane road will cost Rs. 100 crores. Rs. 10 crores released now. DPR is in final processing stage. There possibility that small islets on Netravati & Gurupura rivers will be developed for tourism once road is realized.

We have to find out now whether NH-66 will be developed as highspeed road or not as that would be main Bharatmala highway.

National Highway luck shines on six District/State roads of DK

Summa: Tender will be called for feasibility study for upgrading Belthangady-Dharmastala-Shiradi 25km, Gundya-Subramania 17km, Karkala-Moodbidre-BC Road 40km as two lane roads. Tender is called for feasibility study of upgrading BC Road-Kaikamba-Kateel-Mulky 48km, Tokkottu-Mudipu-Melkar 27km as two lane roads.

Which is sixth one? I thought BC Road-Kaikamba-Kateel-Mulky and Tokkottu-Mudipu-Melkar will be fourlane roads. Hope Airport Road - Athrady will be upgraded as fourlane national highway.

Hassan–BC Road four-laning work to commence in September

When will 1.18 lakh crores 8-lane dual carriageway concrete highspeed road with service roads works commence? Which are phases of development of this road? Will Hassan-BC road will be developed as fourlane road first with fourlane flyovers, tunnels, bridges in first stage and then one more fourlane road will be added to this to make it eightlane road? Or will it be totally separate road?

Mahaveer Circle fly-over to be ready by March 2018

As monsoon arrives, road starts eroding on Shirady Ghat

Mangaluru-Karkala fourlane: NHA Technical Report is ready

Bharatmala project gets PIB nod, awaits cabinet clearance

Commercial buildings should have floor-level parking: MLC
Footpath Encroachments will be removed: Mayor

Sorry status of free left zones at junctions: Traffic snarls galore
MCC to streamline traffic on prominent roads

NHAI apathy leaves national highways in and around city in a shambles

8 highways in state to be developed under Sagarmala scheme

Looks like Sagaramala priority is for internal roads than main Sagaramala road.

Four-laning of NH 75 begins, over 10,000 trees being felled

Rs 1.2 lakhs cost Mangaluru-Bengaluru Highspeed Highway

Summa: DPR preparation and preliminary survey works are going on for upgrading existing national highway to eightlane highspeed highway. Works will be started in another 3 or 4 months and will be completed in 5 years. The road, without any turns or humps & slumps, allowing 100-120 kmph traffic speed, will reduce journey time from current 7-10 hours to 4.5 hours. Ambulances, cars & buses and trucks will have separate lanes. Only two toll gates will be there at two ends of the road stretch. Cold mix technology will be used for Shiradighat stretch.

Five years from now, zoom to Bengaluru on eight-lane highway

So, NHAI will first concretize fourlane Shiradighat stretch and then reconstruct eightlane road with cold mix technology. How they are planning to reduce turns in this stretch? Whether the government has dropped the idea of tunnel road?

Whether cost figures are high due to fresh land acquisition for straightening the road?

When are they going to commence actual Bharatmala works of upgrading NH-66?

Kaladka-Vitla 3 km road gets lucky to become twolane road

Fresh notification for acquiring land for highway in two months
Mangaluru-Karkala road to be widened
Four laning of M'luru-Karkala road: NHAI makes changes

The hurdles for proposed four-laning of Mangaluru-Karkala road (NH 13) seems to be almost cleared with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) making changes in the plan.

Speaking to media after the meeting held at the deputy commissioner’s office on Tuesday here, S P Somashekar, project director, NHAI, Shivamogga, said, “Major realignment has been made at six junctions in keeping with the demands made in previous meetings. The realignment has been included at Sanur, Moorthangady, Thodar, Mijar, Edapadavu and Kudupu.”

Explaining about the plan, Somashekar said, to ensure smooth movement of vehicles, 10 vehicular underpasses will be built, followed by eight light vehicular underpasses (LUVP), one vehicular overpass, two bypass roads at Moodbidri and Gurupura and flyover at Moodbidri
and Kaikamba.

For 30 years

Asserting that the project is conceived in keeping with the future vehicular movement up to 30 years, Somashekar said, the existing passenger car units (PCU) per day on the stretch is calculated between 13,000 and 14,000. The road will be widened up to 45 metres.

Once the procedures are completed, a detailed project report (DPR) will be prepared in another two months, he added.

Journey time

The 45-km stretch between Mangaluru and Karkala is one of the busiest stretches, with not less than 90 minutes (one-and-a-half hour) required to travel the distance. Once the stretch is converted into four lane, it is expected to cut down the journey time to 45 minutes.

DPR for M’luru-Karkala stretch widening to be ready soon

NHAI officials informed at a meeting convened by district minister B Ramanath Rai that it may require approximately Rs 1,000 crore to develop the road from Bikkarnakatte to Sanoor into four-lane. The work on Mangaluru- Karkala stretch, which is part of the four-laning of NH13 with paved shoulders from Shivamogga to Mangaluru, is expected to begin by September 2018, said NHAI project director S P Somashekhar.

The project will have two flyovers, eight light vehicular underpass (LVUP), 10 vehicular underpass (VUP), one vehicular overpass and a major bridge. Initially there were plans to develop the stretch into a two-lane road in 2009, but later a decision was taken to convert it into four-lane with a width of 45 mts.

Hope NHAI will construct a single fourlane bridge across Phalguni river which can be upgraded to eightlane later by constructing another fourlane bridge. To avoid headlight of vehicles moving in opposite direction just put one temporary opaque partition.

We don't know whether & when 'Suvarna Karnataka Corridor' will be implemented by the state government. I don't think if this project is implemented then fourlane road will not be enough for thirty years. Even 'Suvarna Karnataka Corridor' itself doubtful as forest terrain and more stress is now on NH-75.

And what about service roads? Why journey time to cover 49 kms is 45 minutes? Aren't they going to reduce number of turns adequately?

When are the MLAs/MLCs and the ministers at the state government conduct meeting for upgrading the state highways and the district highways? What happened to upgradation of 2 km stretch of airport road? Why our representatives at the state government are silent on the state government's road projects?

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Pumpwell Bus Terminal: Dream becomes True - Private Infrastructure Development Institutes are requested to propose PPP Model

Dream will become true only when bus stop bercomes operational. But don't be surprised if, as corporation election is nearing, all the pending issues make more news.

KSRTC transforms journey with a touch of technology

It is called Automatic Vehicle Location System that uses GPRS connections to locate places on the route on which the bus moves

Corporation drops move to acquire more land for Pumpwell bus stand project
At last Central Busstop at Pumpwell?
Mangaluru: Finally, positive signs of service bus stand shifting to Pumpwell

That means Pumpwell bus stop is not a 'Transportation Hub' but just a 'Service/Mofussil Bus Terminal'. We had hoped that along with service buses even other long distance and interstate buses will ply from Pumpwell. That hope has faded now. Those Mumbai, Hyderabad, the parched city buses will continue to encroach roads like Milagres Cross Road in the night. And as there is no shared depot planned for private buses at Pumpwell many of them will continue to use roadside or footpath as depot cum garage.

But hope after redirecting service buses towards Pumpwell more city buses will be introduced from State Bank.

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Multi-level car parking may soon become a reality: Mayor

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IPRCL to construct 15 rail bridge projects near ports

IPRCL is an organisation under the Shipping Ministry with stakes held by several ports. These are basically flyovers that cost about Rs.100 crore each. The rail bridge projects were earlier implemented under the Railway Ministry.

“Some of the first few projects to be taken up include those near Machlipatnam, Krishnapatnam, Kandla port and New Mangalore Port,” Anoop Kumar Agrawal, Managing Director, IPRCL, told BusinessLine.

Maersk Line’s breakthrough shipment of papayas set to revolutionize the Indian fruits industry

Maersk Line has processed trade’s debut shipment of papayas from Manglore in Karnataka to Jebel Ali, UAE through its container vessel- M. V. Tiger Goman. This opens up a niche cargo category of shipping non-frozen goods(Fruits) using reefers from the region (Mandya, Karnataka).

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”India is one of the largest producers of Papayas in the world. This breakthrough shipment is likely to allow Indian traders to reach out to newer and larger markets, helping them to enable and tap the growth potential held by the fruit export market.” Mr Franck Dedenis, Head of West Central Asia Trades said.

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Supplementary processes have started for building Worldclass Railway Station
Mangaluru’s railway woes

Court issues notice on plea to restore Konkan Rly. its original jurisdiction

If case is won hope that money wll be used for improving hinterland connectivity of the port by asking KRCL to take up newline project.

Mangalore Central Railway Station will be renovated at a cost of Rs. 70 crores

World class rly. station project can take off if State hands over land: MP

Addressing a gathering at a railway function in Mangaluru Central Railway Station here on Friday, Mr. Kateel said that it required 100 acres for the project. The Railways has 60 acres with it.

Mangaluru City Corporation and the State government should take the lead in handing over the balance land required for the project. “If the land is handed over, the Railways will lay the foundation stone for the project within a year,” the MP said.

The MP said that development works worth Rs. 10 crore would be taken up in the Mangaluru Central and Junction Railway stations. It included building an additional platform, toilets, upgrading reservation and current booking counters, parking facility (all in the Central station) and building two elevators in the Junction station.

In addition, the MP said that renovation works at the Central station would be taken up at an estimated cost of Rs. 70 crore. Bids for the works would be called in two months.

Foundation laid for doubling of Nethravathi-Mangaluru Central line