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Expressing interest implicit the inordinate hold successful clearing bottlenecks connected the Chilavannur Bund Road, NGOs and residents’ associations person urged the authorities to decongest the SA Road and Vyttila Junction by widening constrictive stretches of the road.
They besides demanded the operation of a nexus roadworthy connecting SA Road with the parallel Bund Road.
Highlighting the urgent request to get onshore from 3 owners to determination guardant with the Bund Road improvement project, Foji John, caput of Vyttila Janakeeya Sadas, said this would alteration a important fig of two-, three- and four-wheelers travelling to and from SA Road to bypass Vyttila Junction. “For years, motorists travelling from the metropolis towards Thripunithura, Kottayam and Alappuzha person struggled to transverse the ill-planned junction, wherever further widening of the doorbell mouths to and from SA Road would beryllium difficult,” helium said.
The Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) should expedite the long-pending acquisition of a fewer plots adjacent Thykoodam to guarantee optimal usage of the Bund Road arsenic an alternate corridor, helium added. Simultaneously, steps could beryllium taken to conception a roadworthy linking SA Road and the Bund Road on the eastbound broadside of the Chilavannur River, whose banks are being developed nether the Sarovaram project. The projected nexus roadworthy could walk done plots presently being cleared of encroachments. This would let vehicles travelling from the metropolis towards Vyttila and the NH Bypass to instrumentality a U-turn astatine Vyttila Janatha Road and proceed via the nexus roadworthy to the Bund Road. Motorists could besides scope Champakkara by moving eastbound of the NH Bypass, helium added.
Echoing this view, Anil Cleetus, president of the Toc-H Road Residents’ Association, said galore cities successful India and overseas person adopted akin measures to decongest bottlenecked junctions similar Vyttila, wherever aggregate arterial roads converge astatine the NH Bypass. “Work has already begun connected a walkway on the Chilavannur River. A nexus roadworthy tin beryllium constructed alongside astatine a tenable cost, importantly easing congestion successful and astir Vyttila and reducing vehicular pollution,” helium said.
Girijavallabhan P.M., an Eroor-based lawyer and socio-environmental activist, besides urged the GCDA to widen the constrictive doorbell rima of the Bund Road astatine Thykoodam to guarantee creaseless vehicular flow.
