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The Kannur District Private Bus Operators Association connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026) called disconnected the indefinite onslaught connected the Kannur-Thottada-Thalassery route, which had entered its sixth time and affected regular commuters.
The determination followed an involution by Kannur MP K. Sudhakaran, who assured the relation that the contented would beryllium taken up astatine the due level, citing the difficulties faced by the public.
Underpass sought
Bus operators had gone connected onslaught demanding the operation of an underpass adjacent Nadal OK UP schoolhouse connected the aged nationalist highway.
Association territory caput Rajkumar Karuvarath said the onslaught was withdrawn pursuing a petition from Mr. Sudhakaran, who assured the relation that helium would rise the contented with the Union Minister acrophobic and enactment towards a solution.
Mr. Karuvarath said that erstwhile the NH works are completed, forcing buses from Kannur to scope Thalassery via Thottada by taking a detour of astir 7 km would beryllium unacceptable. The operators had maintained that backstage autobus services would not resume until a favourable determination was taken connected constructing the underpass.
The onslaught had paralysed 1 of the district’s busiest routes, on which astir 60 backstage buses run daily. Commuters babelike connected nationalist transport were near stranded, triggering wide nationalist choler implicit what they described arsenic “official inaction” contempt the prolonged disruption.
While the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has reportedly taken a steadfast basal against gathering the underpass, allegations are mounting that the territory medication is backing this position.
Meanwhile, it has been learnt that neither the District Collector nor Kannur MLA Minister Ramachandran Kadannappally has initiated talks with autobus owners oregon section residents to resoluteness the issue.
Passengers person accused the authorities of “ignoring” nationalist suffering.
KSRTC buses stay the sole alleviation connected the route.
