B'luru infra not built for current number of people, vehicles: Home minister supports DKS's remarks

State home minister G Parameshwara on Friday supported deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar over his remarks on Bengaluru's traffic congestion, stating that the city's infrastructure was never designed to accommodate its current population and vehicular load.

- HT Correspondent

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"Bengaluru was not built for such a huge population and a large number of vehicles... We don't have an infrastructure for that. Unless we spread out Bengaluru, traffic is always going to be a challenge in the city," Parameshwara said, adding that the government was exploring multiple solutions, including underground roads, but these are long-term projects.

"All these measures - somewhere we have to build a flyover, somewhere we have to build an underpass, somewhere we have to go underground roads, all these kinds of things of course will take time, money and everything. What Shivakumar has said is, it cannot be within two years or three years. It cannot be a short term measure, it will take a little longer time. That is what I think he has mentioned," he said.