Will Ejipur Flyover ever be completed?

Bengaluru netizens urge Trump to mediate with BBMP and escalate the long-pending Ejipura flyover works.

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00:00Please mediate with Tithagar Group to give coaches for official BMRCL

00:04Yellow Line Operations, we'll name it as Nama Trump Metro

00:07Trump can deal anything around the world, but can't dare to touch BBMP, BMRCL

00:12Maga Trump Flyover

00:14Who would have thought Donald Trump and the Egyptura flyover would end up in the same sentence?

00:19But when the US President made the headlines for announcing a ceasefire between India and Pakistan

00:23on 10th May 2025, a Bangalore saw an opportunity.

00:27In a post that quickly went viral, the user tagged Trump and made an unusual request

00:31to mediate between Bengaluru's civic bodies.

00:34He asked Trump to solve a problem that even local authorities hadn't been able to fix,

00:38the completion of the infamous Egyptura flyover.

00:42He urged Trump to intervene with the BBMP and get the flyover completed.

00:46He also asked him to speak to the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited

00:49to speed up the Yellow Line of the Nama Metro.

00:52And then came up a follow-up post,

00:53Stopping the India-Pakistan war is not such a big deal, the user wrote.

00:57If he wants to prove that he's a strong negotiator and global leader,

01:00let him do this open challenge.

01:03The post struck a chord, other Bangaloreans joined in mixing humour with frustration.

01:08What began as a joke reflected a deeper civic issue.

01:11Bangalore had had enough of infrastructure delays.

01:13The Egyptura flyover has been a sore point for years.

01:16It was supposed to be a 2.5km connector between Koramangla's Kendriya Sadat

01:21and Egyptura via the Inner Ring Road.

01:23Construction started in 2017, but the progress stalled in 2019 when the contractor went bankrupt.

01:29The project, worth Rs. 204 crores, was originally meant to finish by the end of 2019.

01:35But delays in land acquisition pushed deadlines again and again.

01:38In January 2025, the authorities revised the target to December 2025.

01:43Similarly, the yellow line of the Nama Metro connecting RV Road to Bomasandra had also missed

01:48several deadlines.

01:49As the weight dragged on, the city's patience wore thin.

01:52The stalled Egyptura flyover became the punchline, a mean-worthy symbol of civic apathy.