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The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) that took implicit the Neelambur bypass successful Coimbatore territory astir six months agone from Larsen and Toubro is successful the process of finalising the elaborate task study to widen the bypass.
An authoritative of the NHAI told The Hindu that a ₹ 1,800 crore task to widen the 26.2 km roadworthy into a six-lane is to beryllium finalised shortly. “The bids volition beryllium invited earlier the Assembly elections successful Tamil Nadu,” the authoritative said.
The program is to person the agelong into an access-controlled, wholly harmless roadworthy with six lanes of main carriageway, paved shoulders, work road, flyovers, nether walk and roadworthy implicit bridges.
The two-lane roadworthy present has 45 metres close of mode abstraction and this volition beryllium utilized to widen the existing road. Nearly 50 acres volition beryllium acquired for operation of the flyovers and underpasses. The program is to person 2 large flyovers - astatine Trichy roadworthy junction and Pollachi roadworthy junction; roadworthy implicit span crossed the railway crossings astatine Chettipalayam and Irugur; and smaller structures wherever the agrarian roads intersect the bypass.
The roadworthy presently has 1 toll plaza astatine Madukkarai and it is apt to beryllium retained. However, the Central authorities is yet to finalise if the task volition beryllium taken up nether the EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) mode oregon not. The task volition instrumentality disconnected erstwhile the fiscal details are finalised, the authoritative said.
Motorists and associations successful Coimbatore person been calling for widening of the road, which sees a ample fig of accidents.
