bangalore the karnataka government is planning to make the bangaloremysore road an eightlane highway with flyovers to ease traffic congestion at key bottlenecks in the recent past the twoandahalfhour smooth drive between these two cities has turned into a threeandahalfhour nightmare with drivers forced to negotiate over 100 illegally erected speedbreakers the traffic density according to a recent survey conducted by the public works department has almost doubled in the past decade with the 130km stretch recording 40000 passenger car unit pcu when the fourlane was built in 2004 vehicular traffic was 20000 pcu traffic volume apart illegal speedbreakers add to the delay a senior pwd official told toi the eightlane highway proposal is likely to be presented to chief minister siddaramaiah and included in the budget to be presented on february 14 the proposal to build flyovers in five places on the way to mysore bidadi ramanagaram maddur mandya and srirangapatna has remained a mere promise from ministers and netas representing mandya mysore and chamarajanagar districts flyovers alone wont reduce traffic density wide roads coupled with flyovers will definitely help the official said asked if itll be a six or an eightlane highway public works minister hc mahadevappa said the proposal is before the cm and didnt disclose the details some time ago the minister had spoken of two proposals upgrading the road into a sixlane one or a national highway six or eight lanes widening of the road means acquiring huge tracts of land along the highway which is seeing huge realestate action in the past decade but land losers neednt fret with the right to fair compensation and transparency in land acquisition rehabilitation and resettlement act 2013 passed and notified land owners are likely to get a good amount four times the market rate if they have to part with huge chunks of their land