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To facilitate timber removal and road-widening nether a ₹37-crore project, the authorities volition modulate postulation connected the Thamarassery ghat agelong of the Kozhikode-Wayanad National Highway (NH) 766 from January 5 (Monday), a determination apt to disrupt the dense influx of visitors travelling to the elevation district.
Earlier, arsenic portion of road-widening works, implicit 400 trees were chopped astatine the sixth, seventh and eighth hairpin bends connected the ghat road.
Officials of the nationalist road sub-division of the Public Works section said the restrictions were indispensable arsenic cranes had to beryllium deployed to load felled trees onto lorries and to transportation retired repair works astatine hairpin bends.
Multi-axle and different dense vehicles volition beryllium diverted via Nadukani oregon Kuttiadi Ghat routes. The authorities person urged motorists, peculiarly drivers of dense vehicles, to strictly adhere to instructions to guarantee information and creaseless execution of attraction works.
As astir postulation jams and accidents hap astatine these 3 constrictive points, widening the 3 hairpin bends is expected to easiness postulation congestion successful the ghat section. The enactment includes widening the road, constructing footpaths, and installing handrails. Once completed, the roadworthy width volition summation from 14.55 metres to 17.3 metres astatine the approaches to the curves and from 26.5 metres to 38.15 metres astatine the mediate of the bends.
Meanwhile, Wayanad is experiencing a dense unreserved of tourists during the vacation season, starring to terrible postulation congestion connected the Thamarassery Ghat Road successful caller days.
To easiness congestion, strict postulation regulations person been enforced. The introduction of multi-axle vehicles had been restricted earlier, and their question done the ghat conception during daytime has present been wholly banned. Currently, specified vehicles are permitted to run lone astatine night.
In addition, much constabulary unit person been deployed astatine large hairpin bends and bottleneck points on the ghat roadworthy to modulate traffic. The authorities person advised travellers to Wayanad to program their trips successful beforehand and cooperate with postulation personnel.
