Bengaluru, March 13 -- Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, who is also the Bengaluru Development Minister, on Thursday said that double-decker flyovers, tunnel roads, buffer roads, elevated corridors, and other projects are planned to ease traffic in Bengaluru.

Replying to a question in the Legislative Council by MLC Sudham Das on the steps taken to ease traffic, he said, "I have taken up the responsibility of Bengaluru seriously. Bengaluru is not a planned city like New Delhi; only areas like Jayanagara, Indiranagara, and Malleshwara are planned layouts. PRR project would have reduced the traffic woes of the city to a large extent, but it was not executed."

"The PRR would have cost Rs 3,000-4,000 crore if it was executed the...