Wayside rest area for truck drivers off Trasi beach on NH 66 a non-starter as NHAI disputes compensation awarded to land-owners

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In the lack of immoderate wayside remainder country for drivers, it is communal to spot trucks and different vehicles parked each on the Trasi-Maravanthe formation agelong of Kanyakumari-Panvel National Highway 66 thereby making driving unsafe connected the agelong successful Kundapura taluk of Udupi district. Seen successful the foreground are the mangled LPG Bullet Tanker and a motortruck that a tourer autobus rammed into connected April 29, 2026. | Photo Credit: ANIL KUMAR SASTRY

Unwillingness connected the portion of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to wage the compensation awarded for onshore acquired to conception a wayside remainder country for drivers astatine Hosadu has resulted successful motortruck drivers continuing to parkland vehicles connected the Maravanthe-Trasi formation agelong connected the Goa Border-Kundapura conception of Panvel-Kanyakumari National Highway 66.

Had the authorization constructed specified a installation astatine Hosadu, astir 2 km from Trasi formation and abutting the Karwar-Kundapura carriageway, the gravity of the April 29 mishap wherever a tourer autobus ferrying students rammed 2 trucks parked connected the wayside sidesplitting 3 of its occupants, could person been lesser, felt K. Venkatesh Kini, an entrepreneur and societal idiosyncratic from adjacent Bydnoor. It is simply a communal show to witnesser trucks and different vehicles parked connected some the sides of 4-lane NH 66 connected the beauteous Trasi-Maravanthe formation agelong successful Udupi district.

Published - May 01, 2026 04:08 p.m. IST

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