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The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has selected an bureau to hole a elaborate task study (DPR) to suggest measures for improving vehicular question connected the Talapady-Kundapur agelong of the Kanniyakumari-Panvel National Highway 66 successful Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts.
The astir 105-kilometre agelong of NH66 from Talapady to Kundapur includes an approximate 17-kilometre agelong betwixt Nantoor and NITK-Surathkal, which is portion of the Port Connectivity Highway project. Issues related to this agelong volition beryllium addressed separately nether the B.C. Road-Surathkal road betterment proposal, said NHAI Mangaluru Project Director Abdulla Javed Azmi.
The scope of enactment projected by the NHAI includes constructing work roads on the agelong wherever they are not disposable and gathering flyovers astatine cardinal junctions connected the stretch. Land acquisition for work roads is not an issue, arsenic the Highway Authority is already successful possession of the indispensable lands.
Service roads for 52 km
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has projected to conception work roads each on Kanniyakumari-Panvel National Highway 66 betwixt Talapady successful Dakshina Kannada territory and Kundapura successful Udupi territory to easiness postulation flow. In picture: NH 66 astatine Someshwara, betwixt Talapady and Mangaluru. | Photo Credit: ANIL KUMAR SASTRY
Mr. Azmi told The Hindu that of the 90-kilometre Talapady-Nantoor and Surathkal-Kundapura NH66 stretch, work roads already beryllium for astir 25 kilometres, with operation ongoing for different 13 kilometres. The Authority inactive needs to physique work roads for the remaining 52 kilometres, helium said.
He noted that provisions for work roads whitethorn not beryllium disposable connected large bridges. However, Mr. Azmi said that having work roads would let the NHAI and constabulary to divert two-wheelers, enhancing rider safety, arsenic implicit 90% of road mishap victims are riders.
Flyovers
Following feedback from antithetic stakeholders, including the wide public, people’s representatives, enforcement agencies and connected its ain take, the Authority plans to conception astatine slightest 4 flyovers astatine important junctions.
A flyover is planned astatine Mulki to abstracted road postulation from Padubidri, Brahmavara, and Kota. The DPR advisor volition find its nonstop determination for Brahmavara, either betwixt Mahesh Hospital Junction and the autobus basal oregon betwixt the autobus basal and Akashavani (Barkur Road) Junction, helium said.
NHAI is besides funny successful extending the existing Thokkottu flyover adjacent Mangaluru till Kallapu Junction, Mr. Azmi added.
The DPR advisor whitethorn instrumentality astir 4 months to hole the report, aft which NHAI would instrumentality the connection guardant and towards to its logical end, helium said.
