E-city’s Elevated Express highway

YAY!! Elevated Express highway between Silkboard and Electronic city is back in News again. If you remember it was in news during the Satyam scam (because Maytas was one of the partners). Forget it, lets discuss good things.. It is in news finally for a good reason. Second (edited: Thnx to Vincent)longest elevated highway is open to public.

A close pal and I took our first ride on the much awaited elevated express highway worth close to 750 crores today without paying toll (We didn’t cheat anyone, officially there was no toll today). With a sluggish ride, we were able to cover 9 kms in 9 minutes on this posh flyover. Saw tons of people clicking photos, there were couple of couples coupling. I kept staring them and that reminded them that they were still on Hosur road in Bangalore and not in Singapore or New York as it looked like. LOL.. No offense, it is none of my business to intervene, but Prem Divas is getting closer and Ram Sena might be around and getting naughty on a skyscraper is not a good idea. There are several suicide point look-alike here and there, God forbid nothing bad happens and I didn’t find any cameras which I think was a part of the talk. Maybe I didn’t notice it or it may be a hidden camera. I feel CCTV’s are very much essential to monitor the civic sense.

All in all the ride was very smooth throughout, only time will tell us how well the traffic will be managed near the toll booth. I expect some excessive crowding at Silkboard junction as vehicles from elevated and base roads get accumulated before it spreads across to different directions.

If you are taking this elevated highway to ply to work then “I am late to office because of traffic” will not help you escape from your boss. You got to find some new reasons.