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People’s representatives, roadworthy users and wide nationalist person sought contiguous attraction of the authorities acrophobic for the betterment of Kundapura-Tirthahalli State Highway (SH) 52, 1 of the salient highways connecting coastal municipality Kundapur with Tirthahalli, Shivamogga and Bengaluru, that has not seen immoderate betterment successful the past 4 decades.
The 90-km highway, passing done salient places, including Satwadi, Moodlakatte (Kundapur Railway Station), Basrur, Amparu, Siddapura, Hosangadi, Balebare (Hulikal) Ghat, Mastikatte and Nagara, has neither been developed nor widened for ages, portion galore State highways successful the portion person seen development, regretted MLC Manjunath Bhandary successful his caller missive to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.
The Kundapur-Siddapura agelong has witnessed wide improvement with accrued economical activities arsenic a effect of which vehicular postulation excessively has increased. The road connects parts of Udupi territory with Shivamogga territory and further towards Chitradurga and Bengaluru. The MLC noted that the road should either beryllium upgraded arsenic a nationalist road oregon made four-lane roadworthy by the State authorities to guarantee creaseless and harmless postulation movement.
The Kandloor Bridge built implicit River Varahi successful the 1960’s connected Kundapur-Tirthahalli State Highway 52 has go astir dilapidated and needs immediate reconstruction, says MLC Manjunath Bhandary. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
The MLC demanded reconstruction of the Kandloor span crossed Varahi stream built during 1960s, adjacent Kandloor village, arsenic the aforesaid has go unsafe for traffic.
Mr. Bhandary noted that too enhancing connectivity betwixt the seashore and the hinterland, a widened SH 52 would besides boost tourism activities successful the coast, which has beauteous beaches successful Kundapur, Maravanthe, Byndoor and surrounding areas. Transportation of marine produces from the seashore excessively becomes easy, helium added.
Narrow stretch
Social activistic Satwadi Mithun Shetty, who has been spearheading the question demanding widening of the SH 52, said the Kundapur-Tirthahalli road has been constrictive astatine respective stretches, peculiarly betwixt Kundapur and Amparu and Siddapura and Hosangadi. Vehicles get piled up down each different down a dilatory moving dense conveyance without determination being abstraction for overtaking.
With the Balebare Ghat often witnessing landslips and not having capable abstraction for widening into 4 lane, the authorities should see having a passageway roadworthy connected the agelong for unhindered vehicular movement, Mr. Shetty demanded. This was indispensable arsenic each the ghat roads successful the region, Kollur, Balebare, Agumbe, Mala, Charmadi, Shiradi and Sampaje, often witnesser landslips during the rainy season, helium said.
