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Udupi-Chikkamagaluru subordinate of Parliament Kota Srinivas Poojary highlighted the request for an expressway on the Karnataka seashore successful presumption of the existing Kanniyakumari-Panvel National Highway 66 becoming highly congested.
The projected expressway betwixt Talapady connected Kerala-Karnataka borderline successful Dakshina Kannada territory and Karwar successful Uttara Kannada territory could tally on the Mangaluru-Mumbai railway line, the MP told the Lok Sabha connected December 18.
Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Kota Srinivas Poojary has urged the Central Government to conception a greenfield expressway betwixt Talapady successful Dakshina Kannada territory and Karwar successful Uttara Kannada territory on the Mangaluru-Mumbai railway line. | Photo Credit: ANIL KUMAR SASTRY
Raising the contented nether Rule 377 of Lok Sabha (Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business), Mr. Poojary said postulation congestion was perpetually connected the emergence connected NH 66 successful coastal Karnataka.
Though the road was made four-lane betwixt Talapady and Karwar nether antithetic packages, it was incapable to instrumentality the expanding measurement of traffic. Consequently, roadworthy accidents and fatalities connected the National Highway were besides increasing. If a greenfield expressway was constructed betwixt Talapady and Karwar, it could considerably trim the load connected the existing four-lane road portion providing seamless question for through-traffic, the subordinate argued.
A tollgate connected NH 66 astatine Talapady. Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Kota Srinivas Poojary told the Lok Sabha that the existing four-lane Kanniyakumari-Panvel NH 66 has go congested. | Photo Credit: ANIL KUMAR SASTRY
Mr. Poojary stated that the greenfield expressway has the imaginable to boost tourism successful the interior parts of coastal Karnataka. The projected road could usher successful a caller epoch of economical improvement from Mangaluru to Goa, the MP stated.
Road widened nether 2 packages
NH 66 on Karnataka seashore was widened to 4 lanes nether 2 packages — Talapady-Kundapura (90 km) excluding Nanthoor-Surathkal stretch, and Kundapura-Goa borderline (187 km). Toll postulation connected the Talapady-Kundapura conception commenced successful 2016 portion connected Kundapura-Goa borderline section, toll postulation started successful 2023.
Of the 187 km NH 66 connected Kundapura-Goa borderline section, 173 km agelong has been made four-lane with equilibrium stretches successful Bhatkal, Honnavar and Kumta yet to beryllium completed.
The six-lane NH 66 astatine Talapady connected Karnataka-Kerala border. Six-laning of Kanniyakumari-Panvel National Highway 66, being executed by National Highways Authority of India betwixt Talapady and Thiruvananthapuram, is astir nearing completion successful Kerala. | Photo Credit: ANIL KUMAR SASTRY
Widening of NH 66 betwixt Talapady and Thiruvananthapuram successful Kerala into six lanes is astir complete. The projected greenfield expressway is expected to complement the six-lane NH 66 of Kerala, and connection seamless question from Thiruvananthapuram till Goa border.
