This morning, former Home Minister and BTM Layout MLA Ramalinga Reddy laid the foundation stone for the construction of a skywalk between Teacher’s Colony-Sector 5 and HSR Layout Sector 6. The irony of it is that it was inaugurated earlier by Bommanahalli MLA Satish Reddy in July 2018. Read that story here.
When it was first inaugurated, the work on the overbridge near 9th Main Road and Sector 5 near the bus stand on the other side of Outer Ring Road (ORR) never got off to a start. The work was not allowed to begin because certain jurisdictional permissions were not given.
Some residents wondered how a skywalk could come up where a Metro was supposed to come up. The contractor responded by saying that the height alignment of 28 feet will not interfere with the Metro coming up at 45 feet. However, while he had the go-ahead from the Bommanahalli side of ORR, Sector 5 comes under the Jakkasandra ward handled by a different MLA.
Today, BTM Layout MLA Ramalinga Reddy inaugurated the skywalk yet again, this time on his side of the road, and the work should now proceed briskly. This skywalk will be built by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on a public-private partnership (PPP) model. To be built by Adonai Shelters, this will ease the road crossing blues of several elderly citizens and students. In addition, there will be electronic escalators to help the elderly and the disabled from using the skywalk.
This would be Adonai’s 22nd skywalk in Bangalore. If all goes well, the road over bridge should be ready by the end of this year.
