Delayed foot overbridge leaves pedestrians crossing busy Bengaluru-Mysuru highway at risk
Pedestrians, including university students, are facing significant safety risks while crossing the Bengaluru-Mysuru highway due to an incomplete foot overbridge. Despite multiple fatalities and injuries, the NHAI project remains unfinished after 18 months.
Why it matters
This highlights critical infrastructure delays and the resulting human cost in high-traffic urban development zones.
Over four pedestrians have died in one and a half years, and several others have been injured on a 150- to 200-metre stretch of the Bengaluru-Mysuru Highway near a private university in Kaniminike, west Bengaluru, due to a lack of pedestrian infrastructure.
The stretch, located just 600 metres from the Kaniminike Toll Plaza, is used by over a thousand students of the private university every day. The fencing on either side of the highway has been cut open so that pedestrians, including students, can move from one side to the other.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) took up work to construct a foot overbridge at the location about 18 months ago, but the project has remained incomplete.
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