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Aimed astatine providing a smoother thrust to motorists taking East Coast Road (ECR), betwixt Akkarai and Mamallapuram, the Tamil Nadu Road Development Company (TNRDC) volition soon instrumentality up aboveground renewal connected 3 stretches.
A full of 3 km volition beryllium relaid from Akkarai to Uthandi, 5.3 km from Kanathur to Kovalam and 4.7 km from Kovalam to Mamallapuram. “Though it is lone 30 km long, if you instrumentality some sides that is the near manus broadside and close manus side, it comes to 60 km. Of this, we are taking up 13 km for renewal successful this phase,” explained an authoritative source.
The enactment has been awarded, and the contractor is expected to commence the enactment shortly. It volition beryllium completed successful a period from that time. “These sections necessitate renewal arsenic they person withstood postulation for implicit 5 years. If they are not relaid, they volition get damaged and make cracks oregon potholes. We privation to forestall that and privation the roadworthy to proceed to supply a creaseless riding aboveground to motorists. The roadworthy surfaces are usually renewed erstwhile successful 5 years. We volition guarantee that the roadworthy is cold-milled, wherever the aboveground is scrapped disconnected earlier re-laying,” the root said.
The ECR is fashionable among radical travelling to Mamallapuram and Puducherry. “The prime of the roadworthy should not beryllium compromised successful immoderate way. It should beryllium maintained arsenic it is. After the enactment to relay the apical is completed, roadworthy markings, reflective stickers, cats oculus buttons and signages should beryllium re-installed carefully,” said K. Parthasarathy, a biking enthusiast.
On the anticipation of widening the roadworthy to six lanes, different authoritative said that the contiguous measurement of postulation does not necessitate specified width. “Perhaps erstwhile the Chennai Peripheral Ring Road and the projected roadworthy from Karunguzhi, some connecting Poonjeri, are completed, the postulation volition increase. We whitethorn widen it successful 3 to 4 years,” helium added.
Vijayakumar, whose bureau is located connected ECR, said that it would beryllium adjuvant if the toll plaza astatine Uthandi was moved further. “A batch of section residents extremity up paying toll to usage the road, which is unnecessary. The plaza is really located wrong the limits of the Greater Chennai Corporation, and arsenic a rule, toll plazas are not expected to beryllium located wrong metropolis limits. Toll plazas connected OMR were removed citing this rule,” helium said.
