M.G Road likely to be made 6 lane road
MANGALORE: Mangalore City
Corporation has planned to
widen the busy Mahatma Gandhi
Road here into a six-lane 24-
metre wide road.
According to the plan, the
existing 18-metre wide four-lane
road from P.V.S. Circle to Lady Hill
Circle will be widened.
As a first step, the corporation
council at its meeting on Monday
approved a proposal to acquire
land for widening only the PVS
Circle. However, the proposal
placed in the meeting by the
Development Cell of the
corporation did not mention
anything about widening the
M.G. Road.
K.N. Vijayaprakash, Commissioner
of the corporation, told The
Hindu that the civic body had
plans to widen the road. A
beginning would be made by
widening the PVS Circle junction
to 24 metres, he said.
Traffic density on the road was
on the rise. With several
education institutions located
along M.G. Road and Kodialbail,
nearly 7,000 students used the
road daily.
Sources in the cell said while
approaching from PVS Circle to
Lady Hill, land on the right side at
the circle would be acquired.
The council gave its approval for
acquiring this property. There
was a building belonging to a
temple on this property.
They said that according to the
plan, the 24-metre-wide road
would have a 20-metre-wide
carriageway and 1.5-metre-wide
pavement on both sides.
The median would be one-metre
wide. At present, the carriageway
was 14-metre wide and median
half a metre wide. The pavement
was 1.5-metre wide, sources
said.
The former Mayor M. Shankar
Bhat said when he was the
Mayor he had held talks to
convince the occupants of the
temple building at the P.V.S. Circle
to vacate. The corporation had
promised them to build another
building behind the spot. Barring
one, the others had agreed to
the proposal. A trader was
adamant and the civic body did
not have any option but to
acquire the property.
Mr. Bhat said the circle had to be
widened to ease traffic
congestion.
http://www.hindu.com/2010/12/01/stories/2010120165460100.htm