5 months ago
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The mentation of the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for widening the Tiruchi-Karaikudi National Highway into a four-lane mode has reached an precocious signifier of completion.
The 81-km NH from Tiruchi to Karaikudi was widened arsenic a two-way roadworthy with paved shoulders, too constructing culverts, astir 15 years ago. The conception was initially planned to beryllium made a four-lane highway. But the measurement of postulation did not enactment the connection astatine that time. However, the measurement of postulation went up gradually implicit the years. It has accrued manifolds since the agelong was opened to traffic.
Considering the request of the roadworthy users, the NHAI carried retired a postulation question survey betwixt Tiruchi and Pudukottai 2 years agone and it revealed that the agelong had go eligible to beryllium widened into a four-lane way. According to sources, it carries much than 20,000 rider car units (PCU) a day, which is 10,000 much against the modular norm of NHAI to signifier a four-lane highway.
Based connected the precocious measurement of traffic, the NHAI initiated a connection to widen the road into a four-lane mode and appointed a advisor to hole DPR. The sources said it would beryllium completed wrong six months. The alignment of the road had been finalised and the Andhra Pradesh advisor was expected to get the mandatory concurrence of the Collectors of Tiruchi, Pudukottai, and Sivaganga districts for the alignment. The onshore program survey (LPS) volition beryllium finalised erstwhile the alignment was accepted by them.
The sources said the NHAI already had 30 metres of onshore on the agelong of Tiruchi and Karaikudi. It required to person 45 metres of onshore to person two-lane roadworthy into a four-lane highway. It was expected to get 7.5 metres of onshore connected some sides of the highway. It mightiness not necessitate onshore acquisition astatine Keeranur, Pudukottai, Karaikudi and Thirumayam, wherever bypasses existed.
