Paramathma

Should be a common knowledge.

Bengaluru should oppose the Karnataka Government’s obsession with double-decker flyovers which will harm the city beyond repair. We have already seen this in Jayanagar. Deputy CM D. K. Shivakumar must immediately drop this reckless idea. A flyover should solve congestion, not simply shift it 500 metres ahead. Bengaluru has already seen this mistake. Take the Ragigudda flyover. Instead of solving traffic, it has merely pushed the bottleneck elsewhere and created new pressure points around Jayanagar, especially near the Raghavendra Swamy Mutt junction. A beautiful, walkable, well-planned neighbourhood like Jayanagar has been slowly spoiled by contractor-driven infrastructure decisions instead of citizen-centric urban planning. We have repeatedly asked authorities to find a scientific fix around the Raghavendra Swamy Mutt junction, but I fear many of these proposals are only band-aids over a deeper planning failure. And now, instead of learning from these mistakes, the State Government wants to repeat them across the city with more double-decker corridors along new Metro lines. This defeats the very purpose of mass public transport. Metro is supposed to reduce private vehicle dependence, not incentivise more cars by building more flyovers underneath it. If you keep making cities easier for cars, people will keep buying more cars. That is not mobility reform, that is policy confusion. We have made our opposition clear. The proposed Vega City Mall double-decker corridor will be strongly opposed. I have personally organised multiple citizen consultations with Metro officials and the erstwhile BBMP authorities where residents have clearly and consistently rejected this approach. What is even more frustrating is that Metro Phase 3 implementation is getting delayed because of this unnecessary insistence, despite Central Government approval already being in place. Bengaluru does not need more cosmetic flyovers. It needs better buses, faster Metro execution, seamless last-mile connectivity, walkable streets, and governance that respects urban planning over ribbon-cutting politics. Please drop this double-decker madness before we permanently damage the city.

Bhuvi remembers the disrespect. Today's performance and Rohit's wicket was the response 🔥

I too thought the same. Way too much misreading over a harmless comment

“Let him die there”… that’s not going to be my attitude. I will go and stretch him. Great gesture from Ryan Rickelton.. Fair Play points should be given to him and MI for that. This is what I said on air, for people who don’t understand colloquial Tamil. 🙏