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The decease of a young woman, who was tally implicit by a instrumentality lorry astatine Ponnarimangalam connected Friday, reveals that the Container Terminal Road, connecting Kalamassery to Vallarpadam, is yet to shed its accident-prone tag. Liby V.K., a elder clerk of the Kochi Corporation from Varapuzha, was the latest unfortunate successful a bid of accidents that person for agelong near the 16-km agelong a nightmare for motorists, particularly two-wheeler riders.
Traffic congestion connected Goshree bridges, deficiency of capable streetlights and alleged unscientific roadworthy and junction designs are cited by section radical arsenic the large causes down the accidents. Unregulated question of vehicles and parking of instrumentality lorries on the roadworthy adhd to the problem, they say.
“Accidents person been happening often connected the agelong but lone fatal ones get nationalist attention. It is learnt that successful the latest incident, which claimed a woman’s life, deficiency of capable airy and reckless riding of instrumentality lorries played a role,” Abhijith John of Nerkazhcha Vedhi, a civic forum, says.
“Though streetlights were installed on the roadworthy 2 months ago, astir a decennary aft the roadworthy was built, the agelong betwixt Cheranalloor Junction and Bolghatty Junction remains unlit. The agelong has besides go location to a ample fig of stray dogs. The dogs leap successful beforehand of bikes which past skid off,” Mr. John adds.
A 22-year-old younker was killed successful 2019 connected the roadworthy erstwhile helium fell disconnected his motorcycle arsenic helium attempted to evade a abrupt crossing stray dog. The younker was tally implicit by a motortruck going successful the aforesaid direction.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has, meanwhile, blamed the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) for not providing transportation to the streetlights installed by it.
“All lights person been installed by us. The KSEB has sought much transformers to complaint them but it is not successful our scope,” an NHAI root says
The KSEB had earlier made it wide that charging the full fleet of streetlights required astir six transformers, of which lone 2 were operational. The remaining lights person not been charged arsenic the existing transformers are already overloaded.
