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Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) has said that it has initiated steps to easiness postulation congestion and commuter inconvenience on the Phase II metro corridor betwixt Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and Palarivattom.
The metropolis has been experiencing dense postulation snarls during the past fewer weeks. Intermittent rain, reduced carriageway, and civilian works on roadworthy stretches person slowed down vehicular movement. Traffic snarls person besides affected bylanes.
Long queues of vehicles could beryllium seen on the Edappally-Vyttila conception and the Palarivattom-Kaloor stretch. Traffic on interior roads was besides deed for the past fewer days during highest hours.
In a connection issued connected Thursday, KMRL said the installation of caller h2o proviso pipelines had precocious been completed arsenic portion of the ongoing metro work. The inferior shifting enactment required trenching and roadworthy cutting astatine respective locations on the corridor. Road restoration works are nether mode connected each affected stretches betwixt Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and Palarivattom pursuing the completion of pipeline installation, and they are scheduled to beryllium completed by June 6, according to a communication.
KMRL has acknowledged the difficulties experienced by commuters, peculiarly successful presumption of the ongoing monsoon rains, which person further impacted postulation question successful definite locations. It is moving successful adjacent coordination with the postulation police, Regional Transport Office, and different stakeholders to code the challenges connected a precedence basis, it said.
To facilitate the harmless and speedy completion of restoration works, impermanent postulation restrictions volition beryllium imposed lone during off-peak hours successful consultation with the postulation police. Special postulation absorption measures are besides being implemented astatine Palarivattom during daytime to amended conveyance travel and trim delays, according to the release.
The bureau said it had accelerated the restoration of the work roadworthy connecting the rear broadside of JLN Stadium metro presumption to Vasanth Nagar successful effect to concerns raised by section residents. Efforts are besides nether way, successful coordination with the postulation police, to supply a dedicated U-turn installation for residents of Vasanth Nagar, thereby improving section accessibility and reducing question inconvenience, said the release.
It has directed its contractor, AFCONS, and task officials to support continuous monitoring of each worksites, promptly resoluteness issues connected the ground, and instrumentality each indispensable measures to guarantee the creaseless travel of traffic. Dedicated teams person been deployed to intimately show postulation conditions and coordinate corrective actions wherever required, it said.
