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The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) volition commencement enactment connected the operation of a 3-km-long flyover, connecting Five Furlong Road and Guru Nanak College successful Velachery, successful January.
“As the roadworthy is wide, we person decided to summation the width of the projected flyover. Soil probe for the ₹310-crore flyover is apt to statesman by the extremity of this month. The three-lane structure, which volition easiness postulation congestion successful the area, is expected to beryllium completed successful 2 years,” a GCC authoritative said.
The ungraded probe volition statesman erstwhile the contractor is finalised. The GCC has already conducted a postulation survey for constructing the flyover astatine the Sardar Patel Road-Velachery Main Road junction.
The Velachery Bypass junction(Phoenix Mall junction) and Five Furlong Road junction person been witnessing dense traffic,officials said.
As per the postulation survey, Five Furlong Road junction recorded highest hr postulation measurement astatine 7,459 rider car units/hr, and Guru Nanak College junction astatine 7,742 pcu/hr. Traffic betwixt Velachery Bypass and Sardar Patel Road is 57%, and betwixt Velachery Bypass and Five Furlong Road is 26%.
The 11-m-wide undividedflyover volition agelong from a constituent 300 metres distant from the Sardar Patel Road-Velachery Main Road junction to the Velachery Bypass, covering Racecourse Road junction, Five Furlong Road junction and Velachery Bypass junction.
Uni-directional down ramps person been projected connected Five Furlong Road and near Guru Nanak College. Additionally, a 5.5-m-wide work roadworthy and 1.5-m-wide footpath person been projected connected some sides of the flyover. Around 191 sq.m. of backstage onshore and 461 sq.m. of authorities onshore is required for this project, the officials said.
Subha Murali, a nonmigratory of Velachery, said: “This flyover is not going to easiness postulation congestion. It is unnecessary arsenic mall-goers volition commencement utilizing the underbridge country for parking, which volition lone pb to much congestion. Just region the encroachments and widen the road.”
