[Urbanstudy] (theaccomodatingcity) YOU HAVE EXACTLY 10 DAYS TO SAVE 112 TREES ON JAYAMAHAL ROAD

[Deepa Mandrekar]

What is happening from citizen's side on this?

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On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 8:40 PM, Vinay Baindur <yanivbin at gmail.com> wrote:

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> http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/
> cover-story/you-have-exactly-10-days-to-save-112-trees-on-
> jayamahal-road/articleshow/57008297.cms
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> YOU HAVE EXACTLY 10 DAYS TO SAVE 112 TREES ON JAYAMAHAL ROAD
> Bangalore Mirror Bureau | Feb 7, 2017, 04.00 AM IST
> *The stage seems to be set for KJ George’s steel flyover. BBMP issues
> notice seeking permission to chop trees on Jayamahal Road, which will make
> way for a down ramp*
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> If you truly believe in Bengaluru, now is the time to stand up and be
> counted. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has issued a public
> notice asking citizens to file their objections, if any, to the felling of
> 112 trees on Jayamahal Main Road.
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> The notice, issued by the assistant conservator of forests and tree
> officer of the BBMP, says that objections by “public, public institutions
> and people’s representatives for removal of the 112 trees… may be
> registered along with valid reason and supporting documents either through
> e-mail acfsubdivision1bbmp at gmail.com or through
> phone (9480685381) within a period of 10 days.
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> Although the notice doesn’t provide a timeframe, it says that the chief
> engineer, road infrastructure, BBMP, has sought permission for “removal” of
> 112 trees “which are coming in the way” of widening of Jayamahal Road. And
> since the notice provides only 10 days for filing objections, it seems the
> government is moving at break-neck speed to axe all the trees “coming in
> the way” of its resolve to build the steel flyover.
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> This felling of trees on Jayamahal Main Road is a prelude to the steel
> flyover which will result in axing of at least 812 trees (author and
> professor Harini Nagendra put the figure at 2,244 in her article on Monday
> in Bangalore Mirror).
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> It has been necessitated due to “appropriate changes” in the steel flyover
> that the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) -- the executing agency for
> the project – is effecting. A down ramp 325 m in length is supposed to come
> up at Jayamahal Main Road which will take traffic from Kempegowda
> International Airport road towards Bangalore Cantonment Railway Station.
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> “To avoid the congestion at Rajbhavan or Chalukya Circle or near Race
> Course Road, the BDA has decided to provide down ramps at various junctions
> like near Maharani College and Rajbhavan side. We have provided up and down
> ramp between Maharani College underpass and AG office so that traffic can
> use the flyover without getting stopped at Chalukya junction. We have also
> provided down ramp for traffic from Hebbal towards Jayamahal and at
> Vasanthanagar Main Road to distribute the exiting traffic,” said a BDA
> engineer.
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> The steel flyover project has been temporarily stayed by the National
> Green Tribunal, which reserved its final order in the last hearing.
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