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The roadworthy widening enactment being carried retired betwixt Solar and Gatepudhur connected the Erode–Karur Road (State Highway 84) has been progressing slowly, causing inconvenience to motorists and prompting demands for its aboriginal completion earlier the onset of monsoon.
The Erode–Karur Road is 1 of the busiest arterial routes successful the region, linking the textile hubs of Erode and Karur. The agelong witnesses dense postulation question each day, including authorities and backstage buses, goods carriers, two-wheelers, cars and different vehicles.
The connection to person the roadworthy into a four-lane carriageway was archetypal announced by erstwhile Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami successful February 2019. However, pursuing a alteration successful government, the task witnessed constricted advancement for respective years. The DMK authorities subsequently decided to instrumentality the widening enactment successful phases.
As portion of the project, instauration stones were laid connected February 20, 2026, for widening the stretches betwixt Solar and Gatepudhur and betwixt Solangapalayam and Kangeyampalayam. The works, estimated to outgo ₹55 crore, are being executed nether the Integrated Road Development Scheme 2026–27.
The archetypal signifier progressive the removal of trees on some sides of the five-kilometre Solar–Gatepudhur stretch. However, motorists accidental the gait of operation has remained dilatory implicit the past 3 months. They constituent to delays successful the operation of culverts and drainage structures, wherever barricades person narrowed the carriageway and slowed vehicular movement.
“This is simply a engaged agelong with respective acquisition institutions located on the road. A ample fig of radical from surrounding villages question to Erode metropolis each time for enactment and education. The enactment should beryllium expedited to minimise inconvenience,” said V. Balamurugan, a nonmigratory of Chinniyampalayam.
Motorists besides expressed interest that if the enactment is not completed earlier the monsoon, the excavated portions could go slushy and waterlogged, making commuting hard and expanding the hazard of accidents. They urged the authorities to velocity up the task and guarantee its completion astatine the earliest.
