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The installation of roller clang barriers connected Yercaud ghat roads is going connected successful afloat swing, and caller accident-prone places are identified to instal the barriers.
Yercaud, popularly known arsenic Poor People’s Ooty, is successful the Shervaroyan Hills successful the Eastern Ghats. It is astatine an altitude of 1,515 metres (4,969 feet) supra the mean oversea level. The roadworthy has 20 hairpin bends. During weekends and holidays, thousands of radical throng this elevation presumption successful vehicles. But pursuing predominant accidents, the Highways Department decided to instal roller clang barriers connected the Salem-Yercaud ghat road, Kuppanur-Yercaud ghat road, and Pelathur-Kuppanur ghat roadworthy to forestall accidents. The enactment for installing these barriers started astatine the extremity of 2024, and past twelvemonth they were installed astatine a outgo of ₹10 crore.
As much places successful these ghat roads were accident-prone, the Highways Department this twelvemonth excessively started to identify places for the installation of roller clang barriers, and the enactment for the installation of barriers is going connected successful afloat plaything successful the ghat roads.
Officials attached to the State Highways Department said that the barriers volition trim the velocity of the vehicles portion they clang implicit them and propulsion backmost the vehicles to the roadworthy again and prevent the vehicles from falling into the gorge during accidents and besides forestall deaths.
As of now, successful much than 20 places, these barriers were installed, and a fewer much places were identified. The installation works volition beryllium completed successful the remaining places earlier the Yercaud summertime festival, officials added.
