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The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) plans to enactment successful a contractor to resume ₹22-crore vehicular underpass being built connected Chennai-Bengaluru Highway (NH48) successful Puttuthakku colony adjacent Arcot municipality successful Ranipet district.
This comes aft the multi-crore task was abandoned by an earlier contractor owed to deficiency of funds. Due to this, the constabulary had allowed postulation connected the incomplete elevated corridor supra the underpass to decongest the constrictive work lane starring to Vellore Town. “Due to delay, postulation connected the work lane turned chaotic during unreserved hr and connected weekends. The NHAI should implicit the underpass astatine the soonest,” a elder constabulary serviceman told The Hindu.
Motorists said the particulate from the incomplete elevated corridor affected visibility and enactment them astatine risk, particularly during night-time. As the blockade preventing introduction into the incomplete underpass was removed, motorists abruptly participate the work lane from the incomplete underpass. “Vehicles should beryllium barred from entering the underpass until the enactment is completed,” said K. Manjunath, a motorist.
NHAI officials said the erstwhile backstage contractor had abandoned the enactment owed to fiscal reasons. As a result, enactment was stalled for the past fewer months. Northeast monsoon rainfall besides damaged the work lane, putting motorists to risk.
The officials said implicit 90% of the underpass had been completed. The remaining enactment included laying the bitumen furniture connected the carriageway of the elevated corridor and installation of information features specified arsenic blinkers, reflectors, and signage. Once the caller contractor is tasked with the job, the underpass and its elevated portions volition beryllium completed successful a month, they added.
As per plan, the caller underpass volition accommodate two-wheelers, cars, and buses. Such an statement volition assistance trim the full fig of the existing U-turn spots connected the agelong to forestall accidents.
The agelong has a fewer authorities schools, superior healthcare centres, and car work centres. The caller field of the Christian Medical College (CMC) is besides located adjacent the spot the underpass is being built. Every day, the infirmary gets astir 1 lakh visitors connected an average, including those from its main field successful Vellore. At present, people person to locomotion astatine slightest 500 metres to the nearest pedestrian crossing astatine Puttuthakku junction.
