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BANGALORE: Traffic on Mysore Road was paralysed for almost four hours on Thursday due to shoddy work by a Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike contractor in removing stumps of trees that were earlier felled for road widening. The contractor, by clearing the old stumps using a JCB, is said to have damaged electric and telephone cables and water pipes. The excavated trees also left huge craters, which reduced the road width.With BWSSB, BESCOM and BSNL rushing in to carry out emergency repairs, the road was left battered, leaving the heavy traffic to negotiate a narrow corridor.When contacted, KT Nagaraj, BBMP Superintendent Engineer (Major roads) said that Mysore Road is one of the oldest roads in Bangalore. The sanitary and water pipes were laid many decades back. On the other side, trees which were cut were also quite old and the roots penetrated far across the road and footpaths and entwined around the water pipes. That is the reason why the pipes were damaged when the roots were removed. “Now, the BWSSB has to install 1.2-metre water pipes, which will be done tonight. We can only resume work after the water pipes are laid,” the official said.DCP Traffic (West) Mahadevappa said, “We had deployed our personnel at junctions like Nayandahalli, Nagarbhavi, Silk Board to divert traffic. This eased traffic on Mysore Road to an extent, otherwise motorists would have had to put up with more hardships,” he said.
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