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The Vypeen-Munambam roadworthy continues to stay a sidesplitting tract with nary coagulated steps yet to code the long-pending request to make the mishap prone stretch. Accidents connected the roadworthy person claimed 100 lives successful the past 5 years too severely injuring 95 people. The distressing figures were presented by Vypeen MLA K.N. Unnikrishnan successful the Assembly precocious successful a submission calling for measures to resoluteness the situation persisting successful the lone State road successful the constituency.
According to the MLA, a full of 1,432 accidents were reported from the agelong from 2021 to 2025. As galore arsenic 2,949 radical were injured successful the accidents. Previous data, which says the agelong witnessed 91 fatal accidents betwixt 2018 and 2022, shows the situation has lone escalated implicit the years.
The MLA has highlighted the request for caller roads arsenic good arsenic caller bridges successful parallel to the Goshree bridges to bring a semipermanent solution to the roadworthy information woes. He had specifically sought budgetary allocations for the projected coastal road, Goshree parallel bridges and Elamkunnapuzha- Pookkad span to easiness postulation congestion connected Vypeen-Munambam stretch.
“If the required infrastructure facilities are not constructed, the radical who unrecorded successful and walk done Vypeen volition proceed to look menace to their lives and the commercialized and tourism sectors successful the portion volition beryllium successful a limbo,” the MLA said.
Sources with the Motor Vehicles section (MVD) person attested to the concerns raised by the MLA. They cited congestion connected the roadworthy caused by a deficiency of width and precocious density of vehicles arsenic the large crushed for the accidents. “The density of vehicles connected the agelong has been expanding owed to assorted factors, including accrued connectivity from the metropolis adjacent astatine nighttime and improvement of formation tourism, portion the width of the roadworthy has remained the same. Lack of footpath adds to the crisis. More roads, on oregon implicit the stretch, are a necessity,” a elder MVD authoritative said. The commissioning of the Azheekode-Munambam span is expected to summation conveyance travel on agelong and worsen the crisis, the authoritative said, echoing the MLA’s concern.
Responding to the submission, Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal had said that the authorities would see the proposals for Goshree parallel bridges and Pookkad span with owed seriousness. The Minister announced an allocation of Rs 100 crore for the improvement of 15 roads including the Vypeen-Munambam agelong arsenic portion of the 2nd signifier of the World bank-aided Kerala State Transport Project.
