7 months ago
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Five years since a brace of six-lane flyovers were commissioned astatine Vyttila and Kundannur connected NH 66 Bypass, neither the PWD (NH wing), nor the NHAI has taken steps to redevelop the 2 bottlenecked junctions beneath the flyovers.
The junctions are besides the busiest successful Kerala, catering to implicit 1 lakh rider car units (PCUs) per day. Referring to postulation congestion getting worse astatine the 2 junctions arsenic days walk by, PWD sources attributed this to good implicit 50% of the vehicles having to jostle for abstraction done the congested work roads that person little than 2 lane width successful astir areas.
“The flyovers cater mostly to inter-district vehicles, but a bulk of vehicles usage their work roads to crook towards engaged roadworthy corridors that instrumentality disconnected from the 2 junctions. The concern beneath Vyttila flyover is peculiarly precarious, since immense galore vehicles person to walk done the constrictive work roads successful bid to crook towards SA Road, Tripunithura and Kaniampuzha Road (beside which the Vyttila Mobility Hub is located), to sanction a fewer roads that instrumentality disconnected from the junction.”
The sources confided that Vyttila tin beryllium considerably decongested if the State Government sanctioned a ₹1-crore task to redevelop the junction that the PWD had submitted implicit a twelvemonth ago. The road-safety funds were chiefly meant to trim the width of the monolithic medians that the bureau had built beneath the flyover and to adhd specified spaces connected each 4 sides of the junction to the carriageway. An alternate would beryllium for the NHAI to instrumentality up the redevelopment works beneath the flyovers astatine the 2 junctions connected the NH Bypass, they said.
Although the three-year defect liability play of the flyovers ended 2 years ago, the NHAI is yet to instrumentality implicit repossession of the 2 junctions, citing that the PWD has not repaired their attack spans that person sunk beyond the permissible limit, it is learnt. This is providing a bumpy thrust to motorists utilizing the flyovers.
In the meantime, the Vyttila United Forum that is spearheading the agitation to redevelop the junction plans to convene a nationalist gathering beneath the Vyttila flyover, demanding accelerated tracking of steps to decongest the junction. “It is shocking to enactment that neither the PWD nor the NHAI has taken steps to redevelop the junction and to person it into a signal-free junction by making optimal usage of disposable space. This has made the junction unsafe for some motorists, pedestrians, traders and others. At the nationalist meeting, the forum plans to surface a video animation of the postulation reforms that it submitted to the agencies concerned,” said Thampy V R, the Chairman of the forum.
He further expressed dismay astatine neither of the 2 agencies, nor Kochi Corporation intervening, contempt thoroughfare lights atop the Vyttila flyover remaining connected adjacent during time time, for good implicit a month.
