Status till 11 Sep 2010:
Andhra Pradesh:
HYD-KURNOOL-ANANTAPUR :
Smooth NH7 4 line highway except for few diversions near shamshabad, after kurnool and between anantapur and penukonda.
Penukonda-Madakasira:
Good single line roads till madakasira .
Karnataka:
Madakasira-Sira-banavara:
Good single line roads till Sira, from sira to banavara its a avg kind of road, with some areas stretching from .5 - 1 km have no roads at all.
Banavara-birur-lingadahalli-k'gundi:
From banavara to birur good 2 lane road, from birur to lingadahalli below avg single lane roads , same goes from lingadahalli till the bottom of k'gundi hills. from here its avg roads till you reach hill top.
K'gundi-Chikmaglur : This route is not from top of k'gundi hills but need to get down and take right turn after the lingadahalli petrol bunk. Good 2 lane roads till chikmaglur , its a bikers paradise with ghats , twists and many many turns.
k'gundi-mulliyanagiri:
Good single lane roads.
Chikmaglur-javagal-ariskere:
Till javagal its good 2 lane road with some bad patches . After javagal till ariskere roads are real messed up. Take the road to banavara from javagal if you are heading for tumkur side , i heard it from locals.
ariskere-tumkur:
Good 2 lane roads till tumkur can vroom here.
Tumkur-madhugiri-madakasira-penukonda:
Roads from tumkur till madhugiri are very very bad plz avoid this route. From madhugiri till madakasira are just avg kind of roads. Already mentioned abt rest of the roads above.
Instead of this route take the route tumkur-devenahalli-chikballapur-penukonda if want to go to penukonda. We spent 4 : 30 hrs covering 150 kms in these stretch.
Last edited by pabi; 09-18-2010 at 12:49 PM.
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