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Additional onshore is being acquired for the operation of flyovers astatine Ambattur OT and Avadi autobus depot junctions connected the Chennai-Tiruttani High Road (also known arsenic MTH road) from Padi to Thiruninravur.
The 600-m-long flyovers are apt to beryllium constructed by the Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) aft the Highways Department deposits the magnitude with them. The CMRL requires further onshore to conception the pillars, an authoritative root said.
The civilian outgo of each two-lane flyover has been estimated to beryllium ₹70 crore. Around 60% of the onshore acquisition for the installation astatine Avadi has been completed. At Ambattur, the process is astir complete, with the Highways Department awaiting the State government’s administrative authorisation for the outgo of acquisition.
Acquisition for the third flyover astatine the junction of Vanagaram-Ambattur Puzhal Road and CTH Road is yet to be finalised due to an alignment problem. “We do not want to disturb spot owners unnecessarily without the alignment being fixed,” an technologist associated with the task said.
Asked erstwhile the enactment to conception the flyovers would begin, sources successful the section said it depended connected the CMRL, which would beryllium constructing them, on with their corridor, arsenic the flyovers would beryllium integrated with their pillars.
Since the Metrorail corridor enters CTH Road adjacent Ambattur, the 4th facility, a people separator at Korattur, is being constructed by the department. Another root said that the onshore acquisition was astatine an precocious stage.
A nonmigratory of Thiruninravur, V. Dwarakanath, said that portion residents welcomed the flyovers, they had been waiting for the roadworthy to beryllium widened for 20 years now. “Due to the roadworthy being narrow, a batch of accidents happen, vehicles determination slowly, and pedestrians find it difficult to transverse the road,” helium said.
