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The onshore acquisition to amended the ‘S’ crook junction connected Vilankurichi Road has received approval, paving the mode for the implementation of a long-pending postulation betterment task successful Coimbatore.
According to a elder authoritative of the Coimbatore Corporation, the District Collector, done proceedings dated March 13, 2026, directed the Revenue Department to get onshore for the project. To facilitate the project, 39.73 cents of onshore volition beryllium acquired. The acquisition involves the removal of 22 houses located on the projected alignment.
The Corporation has allocated ₹50 lakh for the operation of a postulation island, taking the full task outgo to ₹6.54 crore.
The junction is located astatine the intersection of Vilankurichi Road, Thanneerpandal Road, CODISSIA Road and Gandhi Maa Nagar Road. The roads service arsenic large commercialized corridors and witnesser important vehicular question passim the day. The beingness of respective warehouses successful the country results successful predominant question of dense vehicles, starring to congestion and delays astatine the junction.
Officials said the task involves widening the roadworthy and carrying retired geometric improvements to streamline postulation travel and amended roadworthy safety. The agelong has agelong been identified arsenic a bottleneck, peculiarly during highest hours.
A elder Town Planning authoritative said the corp would conception a roundabout astatine the junction aft the completion of the onshore acquisition. The projected improvements are expected to easiness postulation and heighten connectivity successful the eastbound parts of the city.
