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Widening of the Chennai Tirupathi access-controlled National Highway 716 is expected to beryllium completed by March 2027 with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) mounting a caller day for completion of the project.
Sources successful the NHAI said that onshore acquisition issues inactive canine the project, particularly wherever astir 600 metres of work lane is yet to beryllium finished. A fewer temples that fell on the brownfield roadworthy were either moved oregon demolished to beryllium rebuilt elsewhere. This led to protests. In immoderate cases, lone tiny portions of temple properties were taken for the road.
“We person completed implicit 40% of the works and successful galore places the main carriageway is successful use. The erstwhile deadline was the extremity of this year. The contractor showed dilatory advancement owed to precocious bitumen prices. But that has present been sorted out,” said an authoritative source.
Former MLA E.S.S. Raman said that determination was a request to velocity up the task to guarantee information of roadworthy users. “Since it is an existing roadworthy that is being widened, thousands of radical moving successful concern units, companies, and acquisition institutions from Padi to Thiruninravur, Kakkalur instrumentality this road. They question by two-wheelers. As the main carriageway is smooth, radical velocity up and accidents happen. If the work lanes are completed, smaller vehicles volition instrumentality those, preventing untoward incidents,” helium said.
The widening commences a small aft Thiruninravur adjacent Veppampattu. “Till Tiruvallur, the four-lanes person been completed. We did not spot work lanes successful galore places. But aft that, the enactment is inactive underway. In immoderate places determination is nary BT layer, conscionable unsmooth surfaces. The roadworthy width is lone of 2 lanes, starring to dilatory traffic. You cannot thrust uniformly. You person to support switching lanes and sides. There are not capable motion boards indicating adjacent towns,” said Aravind, who precocious took the road.
