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The State Highways has opened the ₹35 crore caller four-lane Bypass Road betwixt Tajpura and Veppur villages connected Arcot - Villupuram High Road (SH 04) adjacent Arcot municipality successful Ranipet for nationalist usage connected Wednesday.
Officials of State Highways, which maintains the stretch, said that the caller agelong volition beryllium an alternate way to scope Chennai - Bengaluru Highway (NH 48) astatine Veppur colony connected the borderline of Arcot - Vellore towns arsenic the question clip is lesser.
“The existing constrictive Arcot Main Road volition beryllium little congested aft opening of the caller Bypass Road arsenic trucks and lorries volition usage the caller stretch, which ends the ordeal of motorists, particularly two-wheelers,” said R. Sekar, a motorist.
Minister for Handlooms and Textiles and Ranipet MLA R. Gandhi inaugurated the caller Bypass Road. Collector J.U. Chandrakala, R. Krishnaswamy, Superintending Engineer (SE), State Highways (Tiruvannamalai), and S. Selvakumar, Divisional Engineer (DE), State Highways (Ranipet) were present.
Funded nether the Comprehensive Road Infrastructure Development Programme (CRIDP) 2024-25, the caller 3.46 km-Bypass Road has a 10-metre-wide carriageway, 1.2- metre-wide median, footpath, LED streetlights, and precocious mast lamps.
As portion of information features, the caller agelong besides has roadworthy studs, reflectors, signages, blinkers, and CCTV cameras volition besides signifier portion of the work. “As per estimates, much than 9,000 vehicles, chiefly trucks and lorries, walk done Arcot municipality to spell to concern corridors similar Chennai and Bengaluru. A full of 9.36 hectares was acquired for the work,” T. Murugan, Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE), State Highways (Rural Roads), told The Hindu.
Highways officials said the caller agelong connects 3 cardinal State Highways stretches, including Krishnagiri - Ranipet High Road (SH 24) and Arcot - Kannamangalam High Road (SH 29). By providing an alternate way for commercialized vehicles, the caller bypass roadworthy will decongest Arcot municipality including the autobus terminus from existing postulation snarls successful the town, traders said.
Also, the caller bypass roadworthy provides a abbreviated way for motorists to scope Government Taluk Hospital successful Walajah, caller field of Christian Medical College (CMC) and Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL) successful Ranipet and cardinal towns similar Melvisharam and Vellore.
