Tuesday, July 23, 2019

NEW BYPASS ROADS ALONG OMR

Tamil Nadu road development company (TNRDC), has estimated  201 crore to build tow bypass roads between Thiruporur and Kelambakkam  along OMR. In order to reduce the traffic congestion and issues of land acquisition  from Siruseri to Poonjeri at six-lane  old widened  Mahabalipuram  road.
These tow roads were proposed as the phase II widening of OMR road. This action is made for vehicle pile at the junction of  Kelambakkam and Thiruporur. TNRDC decide to build the roads before the phase II.
These bypass roads can give relief to the motorists and it can reduce the travel time at least by half an hour. After passing through OMR road , the will connect the six lane bypass road pudur with thandalam which is 15 km.
Starting  point of  Kelambakkam bypass road is at Pudur and ends at thaiyur  village , by skipping tiruporur junction which will cover 4.67km without covering kelambakkam junction. The road will pass through pudur , kelambakkam, thaiyur, kalavakkam, tirupporur and thandalam villagees  along a major bridge and tow minor bridges.
The 33 meter six-lane dual carriage way has to pass through 10.5 meter carriageway on both sides, along with tow meters for tow wheelers and pedestrains. Hindustan Engineering College pudur has an pedestrain underpass for college students and local peoples, while vehicular underpass  at kovalam road which connects to East Coast Road.
Kelambakkam bypass road have an opening at median OMR Amman Temple and next 2 km open land. The tiruporur bypass road has its opening at medians at kalavakkam salt extraction area, near OMR amla and coconut garden, SARE apartment, salt factory and Balaji engineering college.
From the date of commencement, the project should be completed in 24 months. According to the official records, in OMR vehicle volume exceeded 75000  per day and expected to one lakh by next three to five years.
The Tamil Nadu officials said, that the payments for villagers are being settled to complete land acquisition for phase II. After completing the administrative procedures the  bypass roads, tenders have been floated and work would commence.

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