Environmental groups and a conception of residents person launched an online petition titled Cubbon Park Pradakshiney Haaki, demanding that the abstraction stay traffic-free connected Sundays and different holidays. (Express record photo)
The Karnataka authorities has decided to let vehicular postulation wrong Bengaluru’s Cubbon Park from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. connected the 2nd and 4th Saturdays. The 197-acre parkland is usually closed to vehicles connected these days and Sundays to support its biodiversity.
However, aft overmuch deliberation by the Bengaluru postulation constabulary department, the authorities convened a gathering involving Chief Secretary Shalini Rajaneesh, officials from the Cubbon Park Conservation Committee, the postulation department, Shivajinagar MLA Rizwan Arshad and Shantinagar MLA N A Haris implicit the contented connected January 21.
M N Anucheth, Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), said the opening of the parkland for postulation connected each days would decongest postulation astir the cardinal concern territory and heighten accessibility for radical travelling from the southbound to the northbound broadside of Bengaluru.
He besides argued that postulation congestion caused by the closure connected the 2nd and 4th Saturdays is expanding contamination levels astir Cubbon Park.
The authorities frankincense decided to let postulation connected these days during a play erstwhile the highest congestion is reported.
The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board volition besides acceptable up aerial prime and sound contamination meters for regular checks to spot if contamination levels drop. The postulation constabulary section volition survey the congestion levels astir Cubbon Park connected these days.
Meanwhile, biology groups and a conception of residents person launched an online petition titled Cubbon Park Pradakshiney Haaki, demanding that the abstraction stay traffic-free connected Sundays and different holidays. The petition urges authorities to “leave our Cubbon Park alone”, emphasising that the parkland becomes a vibrant, safe, and accessible abstraction for the nationalist during these traffic-free days. The petitioners reason that allowing postulation wrong the parkland connected nationalist holidays is unnecessary, particularly since adjacent the Karnataka High Court remains closed connected specified days.
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