No move yet to reinstate one-way traffic norms on service roads

Despite persisting complaints from motorists, one-way postulation restrictions person not yet been reinstated connected respective work roads on the National Highway (NH) stretches, which were reopened aft the six-laning works successful Kozhikode city. The hold is reported to beryllium causing important snarl-up, peculiarly during highest hours.

The agelong adjacent Thondayad Junction has emerged arsenic 1 of the astir affected areas owed to delayed interventions. Residents pointed retired that vehicles entering the constrictive work roadworthy from some directions person disrupted the escaped near question astatine the junction. T.K. Nishad, a nonmigratory surviving adjacent Government Medical College, Kozhikode, said the concern worsened with the unchecked question of dense vehicles, including trucks approaching from the other direction, which hampered the travel of smaller vehicles.

Although the constabulary had earlier described the existing statement arsenic a impermanent measurement linked to the road widening work, nary changes were implemented adjacent aft the completion of large renovation works. Residents besides said that the aggregate introduction and exit points beneath the Thondayad flyover person compounded the problem.