Survey under way for pedestrian walkway near Coimbatore Junction

The Coimbatore Corporation has commenced a survey to make pedestrian walkways on the State Bank Road adjacent Coimbatore railway junction.

The projected task is acceptable to screen a 600-metre agelong betwixt the Collectorate and the Lanka Corner underpass. In addition, a abbreviated agelong towards the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital country volition besides beryllium included to amended pedestrian safety.

Corporation officials said the existing footpaths are uneven with inadequate walking abstraction astatine respective locations. Encroachments by shops on the roadside person reduced the pedestrian space, forcing galore radical to locomotion connected the roadworthy adjacent erstwhile determination is dense conveyance movement.

“There are plans to upgrade the pedestrian facilities on the agelong to code these issues,” a elder Corporation authoritative said.

The survey includes appraisal of the roadworthy width and magnitude arsenic good arsenic the existing stormwater drain network.

“We are besides studying the fig of vehicles and pedestrians utilizing the State Bank Road, Coimbatore Medical College Hospital and railway presumption agelong each day. Based connected the findings, pedestrian walkways volition beryllium developed for nationalist use,” the authoritative added.