CHENNAI: Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday sanctioned 97 additional road development projects in the Chennai metropolitan area under the Traffic and Transportation Scheme at a cost of Rs.525.05 crores.

In a statement here, she said that widening and strengthening of roads and construction of river bridges, road over bridges and grade separators were among the proposed projects.

The Chief Minister said 87 projects would be taken up to widen and strengthen roads covering a distance of 395 km at a cost of Rs.318 crores. The roads are the Tiruvallur-Karasankal road, Madhavaram-Red Hills road, Mount-Madipakkam road, Sembiam-Red Hills road, Vandalur-Kelambakkam road, Lattice Bridge road, Vandalur-Wallajabad road and Kodambakkam-Sriperumbudur road.

Among the five river bridge projects to be executed at a cost of Rs.35 crores is an additional two-way bridge across the Adyar parallel to the Thiru.Vi.Ka. bridge in Chennai at a cost of Rs.9 crores. A high level bridge over the Ennore river mouth on the Ennore express highway will come up at a cost of Rs.20 crores. The bridge across the Buckingham Canal near Madhya Kailash on Sardar Patel road would be widened at a cost of Rs.1 crore. A high level bridge costing Rs.5 crores will be built across the Cooum river between Nerkunram and Mogappair.

The causeway on the Grand Northern Trunk (GNT) road at Vyasarpadi will be replaced by a road over bridge at an estimated cost of Rs.50 crores.

Grade separators will be constructed at five places at a total cost of Rs.122 crores. The Government will earmark Rs.30 crores for the grade separator at the junction connecting Anna Nagar Second Avenue, Tirumangalam-Mogappair road and the Inner Ring road. The separator at the Moolakadai junction on the GNT road will cost Rs.25 crores. Apart from this, Rs.15 crores will be spent on grade separators at Porur junction connecting Kodambakkam-Sriperumbudur road and Mount-Poonamalee road, Rs. 22 crores will be set aside for the project at the Halda junction linking Anna Salai with Sardar Patel road and the project at Vadapalani connecting the NSK road and the inner ring road will be implemented at a cost of Rs.30 crores.

Investment plan

Ms. Jayalalithaa said that works related to the Rs.18,000 crore Investment Plan for Chennai Metropolitan Area had been gradually taken up. To enhance the passenger and cargo transport, 55 projects were taken up at a cost of Rs.50 crores in 2003-2004 and a massive project to execute 23 road development projects at a total cost of Rs.290 crores sanctioned in 2004-2005 were progressing.

Thirty-nine road development projects would be implemented at a cost of Rs.574 crores under the Tamil Nadu Urban Development Project-III, which was launched on October 19, she said.

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