Demolition Begins on Jayadeva Flyover for Bangalore Metro’s Line-3/4

Workers today began demolition of Bangalore’s Jayadeva Hospital Flyover to facilitate the construction of Bangalore Metro’s multi-level road & rail Jayadeva Interchange Station to serve the new 19.143 km Yellow Line (Line-3 / Reach 5) and 21.386 km Line-4 (Reach 6 / Pink Line) of the 73.92 km Phase 2 project.

Demolition of the flyover, built in 2006 by the Bangalore Development Authority, to facilitate metro construction has been long pending and delayed for years due to a combination of bad project management, elections and most-recently poor inter-city department coordination. Work on either side is rapidly progressing with HCC-URCC JV commencing stitch-works on fins for the elevated road-level of Line-3’s double-decker viaduct in December 2019

Location of Jayadeva Station – view Bangalore Metro Phase 2 map & info
Notice published by BMRCL on the 17th – via CPRONammaMetro
Design of the Jayadeva Intersection – Copyright: BMRCL via BengaluruTrains

• Level-1: Underpass connecting Dairy Circle with Bannerghatta
• Level-2: At-grade local road connecting Ragigudda with Central Silk Board Junction
• Level-3: Elevated road connecting Ragigudda with Central Silk Board Junction
• Level-4: Metro concourse level for both lines
• Level-5: Line-3’s platform (RV Road – Bommasandra)
• Level-6: Line-4’s platform (Kalena Agrahara/Gottigere – Nagawara)

Existing underpass & flyover (partially demolished earlier) as seen in 2011 – Photo Copyright: R Srikanth (wikicommons)
January 20: machinery to carry out demolition – Photo Copyright: Dr. Flyboy

Here’s a video (be prepared for a little neck exercise) –

Demolition will be carried out in the night-time and is expected to last about 90 days. Until further notice, the underpass will continue to serve vehicles.

Back in 2016, Nagpur’s Chhatrapati Flyover was similarly also demolished to facilitate construction of a 3.41 km double-decker viaduct for vehicles and metro trains. That leg of Nagpur’s Line-1 became operational in March 2019.

For more updates, check out the Bangalore section of The Metro Rail Guy!

– TMRG

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7 Responses to "Demolition Begins on Jayadeva Flyover for Bangalore Metro’s Line-3/4"

  1. Prasad says:

    Dear sir
    I’m safety engineer working in Chennai metro rail project 7year experience sir9963098307

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  2. Vishwa Prakash A says:

    I know this is a week old but so many thanks for this page. This clarifies so many things about the Jayadeva junction. Everybody wants to know how the junction would look like and nobody has summarized it this well.
    TMRG rocks!

    Reply
  3. Arun Shankar C says:

    Hi TMRG,

    Any idea when whitefield metro line will be completed? Also please post more about phase 2 metro updates..

    Reply
  4. VT says:

    Hello TMRG,
    What is your take on Reach 4B (Kanakapura Road) for completion date? Do you see Aug 2020 feasible?

    Reply
  5. krishnan says:

    Hi TMRG

    Do you have any news on ORR metro bangalore tender . I really hope that a good company gets it and finish the work in record time . As I live in Marathalli so eagerly waiting for some good news

    Reply
  6. Rupraj Sengupta says:

    Thanks

    Reply

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