Mysore Road’s
The railway under-bridge (RUB) near RV Engineering College, Mysore Road has been in an unusable condition for the past two years. The
A resident of the locality said: “The work started more than two years back. The whole area has been dug up but the work is moving at a slow pace and whatever they have dug up now looks like two lakes because the rain water has filled up the two sides. There is no basic safety or security measure that the authorities have taken up.
There are hundreds of students that walk past that place and the walking passage is so small and narrow that only one person at a time carefully can walk past the path.
If it rains heavily, even that will be washed away and fall off; that’s the only path connecting one side of the road to another. At night this place is even more dangerous; people cannot walk properly, passers-by fear for their safety and we have had incidents with thieves too. There are no street lights in the area. There is a garment factory nearby where women work, and at night, their safety is often at stake. This whole process has been delayed for so long that it is causing hardships for pedestrians, residents and anyone in the area.”
The dug-up stretch becomes impossible to cross during the rains; the lack of streetlights and safety measures make it unsafe for walking
Another resident added that the intention of the RuB was to ease the life of Jnanabharathi Layout,
