Work starts to widen 2.5-km-long section of Sardar Patel Road

The Highways Department has begun the enactment to widen the 2.5-km-long conception of Sardar Patel Road from IIT Madras to Chellammal College connected the GST Road astatine a outgo of ₹48 crore.

On completion, it volition go a six-lane wide roadworthy from the contiguous four-lane wide facility. It volition see work lanes and footpaths connected either side, explained authoritative sources. The widening is being taken up to forestall piling up of vehicles from the Taluk Office junction till the Chellammal College.

A 500-m agelong has already been widened arsenic portion of operation of the flyover astatine the Madhya Kailash junction. The compound walls of authorities institutions, including Anna University and Highways Research Station volition beryllium removed and built further wrong their properties.

The Raj Bhavan volition not beryllium disturbed successful immoderate mode since it is simply a nationalist park. The roadworthy volition gradually determination towards the right, to set the width from determination on.

Footpaths volition travel up connected the storm-water drains from Taluk Office Road to Gandhi Mandapam junction wherever h2o volition tally towards the Research Station; and from the Children’s Park to IIT-M from wherever it volition tally to the Buckingham Canal via the drain astatine the Madhya Kailash flyover.

Natural flow

Water flows people from Anna University towards Gandhi Mandapam Road and besides Anna University to Highways Research Station.

The State authorities had sanctioned the task successful September 2025.

G. Ramakrishnan, a nonmigratory of Besant Nagar, said that the roadworthy should person widened overmuch earlier. The different information of the roadworthy from Ambika Appalam junction to the Thiru Vi Ka Bridge should besides beryllium widened to forestall vehicles bunching up successful that portion.Steps tin beryllium taken to widen Greenways Road and Santhome High Road truthful that motorists tin thrust smoothly till formation roadworthy and beyond, helium added.