Bhubaneswar, the city being destroyed one flyover at a time
As the title of the post. I read up that the BJP Govt is going to build a so called "4 lane elevated corridor" from Nandankanan to Jaydev Vihar flyover.
Here are my take on the project:
It fixes NOTHING. Without lack of proper interchanges you will still travel from one bottleneck to another.
There isn't enough space to build a proper interchange at Jaydev Vihar flyover. So, it will be just another plain merge or the absolute worst case scenario a traffic signal on NH. Will eventually clog up the highway too.
Destroys aesthetics of the city. The roadside trees and everything.
We could have built multiple pedestrian crossing at these 8m level to facilitate road crossing. Ruins that too.
Additional cost, delays metro project, Govt recognises all the illegal encroachments by big & small players on this route.
Net net it's a SHOW-OFF project at best. "We built this for you low lives" kind of vibes is what this project will be about.