6 months ago
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With neither Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) nor the roadworthy owning agencies acrophobic resurfacing damaged and waterlogging-prone areas of the NH Bypass-Puthiya Road-Vennala-Palachuvadu-Seaport Airport Road corridor, commuters who instrumentality the way to debar getting caught successful postulation snarls connected the Civil Line Road, which has been barricaded for Kochi Metro’s Kakkanad extension, are having a harrowing time.
While the Kochi Corporation owns the ill-maintained Puthiya Road wherever breached and missing slabs abound, the Public Works section (PWD) owns the remainder of the corridor wherever terrible undulations, potholes and breached slabs airs information to some motorists and pedestrians. Neither has the PWD done due restoration of the Alinchuvadu-Thykavu Junction Road, which runs parallel to the NH Bypass and had been trenched astatine predominant intervals to laic state pipelines and physique manholes.
Official sources said that the KMRL ought to urgently repair damaged portions of these roads that are owned by the Corporation and the PWD, since determination is simply a phenomenal summation successful the fig of vehicles that usage them, owed to aggravated barricading of Civil Line Road.
In a submission earlier the State Legislative Assembly recently, Thrikkakara MLA Uma Thomas had demanded that the KMRL and the State authorities adhere to the assurance they gave arsenic aboriginal arsenic successful 2023 that alternative/diversion roads would beryllium redeveloped, to cater to the further influx of vehicles from the heavy barricaded Civil Line Road. “The metro agency’s nonaccomplishment successful this respect is causing postulation snarls and accidents not conscionable connected Civil Line Road, but successful diversion roads arsenic well. Commuters, residents and traders person been severely affected by the pathetic information of these roads and the inordinate hold successful clearing postulation bottlenecks,” she said.
The predominant h2o pipeline bursts astatine metro enactment sites added to the chaos, portion affecting the drinking h2o supply. Half-hearted measures by KMRL, similar dumping of factual successful trenched parts of roads, person made matters worse, with roads processing undulations. It is precocious clip the State authorities sped up repair and resurfacing works, Ms. Thomas added.
PWD sources said that the full Civil Line Road, a information of Seaport Airport Road southbound of Collectorate Junction and each postulation diversion roads were handed implicit to KMRL. The metro bureau ought to person cleared bottlenecks and maintained them successful a safe, motorable condition, they added.
