Click to play videoBangalore: Angry residents of Bangalore forced the infrastructure company NICE to reduce toll charges at a series of peripheral ring roads, that were thrown open to the public in 2006.
Raging protests, pelting of stones and shattered glass were what was seen on day two of starting a levy of toll on the peripheral link roads around Bangalore, built as part of the country's first private road project.
And now, bowing to pressure from both political and local groups, the road's builders - the Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise or NICE have announced a reduction of toll charges at a series of peripheral ring roads.
"Reduction is anywhere between 20 to 30 per cent and actually if you look at some of the categories now, it's much less than Bombay-Pune expressway," said NICE MD, Ashok Kheny.
When the roads were opened to traffic in June 2006, the link roads were like none Bangaloreans had seen no potholes, no intersections, no traffic.
However, last week NICE decided to start a levy higher than what national highways charge, and sometimes even costing users more than what they would pay for fuel.
Protests forced the government to intervene, to ask NICE to bring some relief to users.
However, the actual expressway to Myosre is still caught in political wrangling the main project for a tolled road that will reduce travel time between Bangalore and Myosre by half that was conceptualised more than 10 years back, has not yet taken off.
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