Was trying to visualise the route from your description, Ash and here is my rough attempt to trace the route to keep other Saligaokars aware of what this road would do to the vaddos skirting the base of the hill starting with Salmona (please feel free to redraw!)
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2640183 The quarry/dump is also visible on the lower left of the Saligao Spring (zoom in for a closer look) Kevin On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Ashley Delaney <[email protected]>wrote: > > hi all > > > Sequeira said the panchayat was surprised to receive two letters from > > the PWD dated February 19, 2009, announcing the government's intention > > of acquiring land for construction of bypass roads; one from Porvorim > > to Baga beach and the other from Sinquerim to Baga beach. The letters > > also directed the panchayat not to grant any construction licenses on > > the lands proposed to be acquired. > > > > Elaborating on the alignment of the proposed roads, Sequeira said that > > the Porvorim road would begin near Hotel Gautam, skirt the Saligao > > seminary and emerge near the Calangute police station. It would then > > go to Dongorpur, on Calangute's eastern border with Saligao. The other > > the first rd is the same rd we are oppsing in saligao!! a report on the > same came out yesterday in the same paper. > to elaborate the rd comes fom behind the seminary almost right into the > awem area above westend... thereafter it proceeds to destroy the slopes > as it moves all along the hll in more than 25% gradient till the water > tank near the hp gas outlet. thereafter it goes right infront of the > seminary into the pilerne IDC where it proceeds to break a few factories > there, once in pilern for a few 150 meters it makes a right turn. comes > back into saligao behind the goa science center comes agains through the > slopes. PASSES RIGHT THROUGH THE CENTER OF THE SALMONA SPRING JUST AT > THE BASE OF THE HILL WHERE PEOPLE BATHE comes right back up and proceeds > all along the slopes almost till boa viagem > > one questoins the need for it in the first place. > 1) for the last 10 years an existing bypass rd from pilerne idc to hotel > gautaum where the new rd originates has already been on the anvil to > take away traffic from pilerne IDC entering salgao village. so the first > sction of the rd cn be completly avoided by a present proposal thats > beent here for the last 10 years!!!. > te second part is NOT ALL ALL necessary...IF they do need it.. the > present alignment is not at all feasible and needs to be redrawn so that > it goes along the border on the top of the hil along the plateam. > hopefully than it shd pas on the garbage dump which incidently from > pictures we clicked a week ago is now just 10 meters from the slaigao > boundary. amazingly a quary 40 feet deep and almost 75 meters across has > beocme full and is now spilling out. we intend to take this up again at > the gram sabha and at the high court level > > regards > Ashley > -- > Linux is to computing what freedom is to mankind...and then there's > Microsoft > > Devine Computers > Abreovaddo, Saligao, Bardez, Goa. > Ph: 2409544 / 9823118321 > Branch: Opp Municipality, Shetye resicom, Shop #3. Bicholim > Ph: 9422448900 / 2361147 > > > > -- “Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a deity...it is more humble and I believe truer to consider him created from animals” (Charles Darwin) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ This message comes via the Google Groups "Saligao-Net" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net?hl=en Please post regularly to keep the e-village active! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
