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With accelerated urbanisation and enlargement of the metropolis suburbs on Tiruchi-Musiri and Tiruchi-Thuraiyur State Highways, residents and activists person called for the strengthening of No.1 Tollgate- Nochiam conception of Tiruchi-Musiri Highway.
The abbreviated roadworthy agelong of astir 2 km caters to a ample fig of radical commuting to Tiruchi from Musiri, Manachanallur, Thuraiyur, and respective different villages. Besides, a ample fig of dense vehicles headed to Thuraiyur and beyond spell via the road.
The agelong has respective crisp and unsafe curves close from No.1 Tollgate, particularly aft Uttamarkovil roadworthy implicit bridge, and attracts dense postulation round-the-clock arsenic vehicles headed for Salem and Bengaluru instrumentality the highway.
“Though a abbreviated stretch, it has go unsafe arsenic vehicles exiting and entering the metropolis travel astatine precocious speed. With respective crisp bends and roadside connected this stretch, two-wheeler riders are astatine the mercy of dense vehicles. The roadworthy should beryllium straightened oregon widened wherever possible,” said Selvam, a nonmigratory of Uttamarkovil.
“This and Nochiyam- Manachanallur roadworthy are constrictive stretches and motorists look overmuch hardship. They person been catering to dense postulation and request to beryllium widened urgently,” observed N. Saravanan, a roadworthy information activistic and commuter connected the route.
Although the Highways Department had relayed the three-km agelong betwixt Nochiam and Manachanallur successful 2022, residents accidental the constrictive roadworthy is proving to beryllium inadequate to accommodate the expanding traffic.
In a caller effect to his petition, the Highways Department had said that a connection to upgrade the Nochiyam-Manchanallur roadworthy would beryllium submitted to the authorities soon for approval.
Mr. Saravanan pointed retired that commuters had agelong been demanding the widening of the Tiruchi-Musiri conception of Tiruchi-Namakkal Highway, which includes No.Tollgate-Nochiyam section. However, the Highways Department maintained that determination was small scope for widening the road arsenic it chopped done wetlands and irrigation canals.
