1,791-crore steel flyover project. Tugging along with his parents, 12-year-old Vinayak Vishwanath said he was drawn to the protest as trees would be felled. The protest saw participation by numerous expats, who said hurried large-scale projects were destroying the beauty of the city. “Develop the metro and impose decongestion charges to reduce traffic on the streets instead of building steel flyovers,” she says. TweetsGreat to be part of this citizens' protest in Bengaluru today; the proposed steel flyover is a scam, and must be scrappedRamachandra Guha ‏@Ram_GuhaCitizens form human chain against steel flyover project…GoK shd listen to citizens n come up with alternate plansKiran Mazumdar Shaw ‏@kiranshawPoliticians selling this myth of flyovers will reduce traffic since Early 2000 today there r traffic jams on Flyovers !!!!

Source: The Hindu October 17, 2016 03:30 UTC