By V. N. Prasad, Design Engineer & PMC; Roads (Retd.)
With due respects to my learned friends who staged silent protests against straightening of the stretch between Kalamandira and the Mosque on Hunsur Road near Jaladarshini Guest House, I wish to make the following observations from a design engineer’s perspective. Having practiced Road Engineering from ‘Drawing Board’ stage to ‘Project Management’, my focus is only on rectification of defects rather than merits and demerits of alternatives. In a recent conversation with SOM Editor-in-Chief K.B. Ganapathy, he observed thus: “Prasad, you are like a pontiff in saffron rendering your discourses through your articles in SOM. Sadly, no one bothers to take your views forward.” Thinking citizens and non-thinkers of the government merely prefer to read the articles but do nothing. Therefore, I confine to ‘case-specific’ points and relevant circumstances. My contentions from the time I first observed this stretch as per road transportation engineering fundamentals were:
