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Road sector set to witness improvement

— Photo: R. Ashok

Good connectivity: Land filling works under way along the Chennai Bypass Road in Tiruchi.

TIRUCHI: The road sector in the Central region of the State is all set to witness a big improvement in about a year’s time as almost all major highways connecting Tiruchi were being converted into four-lane highways.

The development is all too apparent as the four-lane projects on the Tiruchi-Chennai, Tiruchi-Madurai and Tiruchi-Thanjavur Highways were underway in full swing around the City now. Work on the four-lane projects on the Tiruchi-Dindigul and Tiruchi-Karur sections is also expected to commence shortly.

The four-lane projects will give a major fillip to the city’s road network too as a series of flyovers and new over bridges were coming up as part of the projects. Apart from the two new bridges across the Coleroon, the Cauvery and the Upparu rivers, new fly-overs will come up at Ariyamangalam (Palpannai), TVS Tollgate and Mannarpuram. Apart from this, road over bridges will be constructed at Ariyamangalam (one on the Tiruchi-Chennai Highway and the other on the Thanjavur Highway), Golden Rock, Tiruverambur and Koothur near the City.

Work has just commenced on the construction of the fly-over at Mannarpuram will serve as a new by-pass road to the Madurai Highway, averting the need for vehicles to go via the residential areas in Crawford. The fly-over, linking Mannarpuram with Panchapur, will run for distance of about 360 metres apart from 400 metres of approach roads on both sides.

Simultaneously, work has begun on land filling and levelling of the extended portions of the highway on the Tiruchi-Chennai By-pass Road. Service lanes around the Ariyamangalam (Palpannai) Traffic Island would be ready soon to facilitate the commencement of the construction of the fly-over at the site by the first week of October.

According to sources, over 30 per cent of the work on the 124-km long Tiruchi-Madurai section has been completed so far. Nearly 28 per cent physical progress has been achieved on the 40-km long Tiruchi-Padalur section of the Tiruchi-Chennai Highway. Traffic would be diverted shortly through the newly laid carriageway on one side of the highway on a seven-kilometre stretch between Padalur and Siruganur on this section.

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