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FOR SOMETHING GOOD: A part of the road in Selaiyur where encroachments were removed on Saturday for widening the Velachery Main Road. TAMBARAM: The State Highways Department has stepped up land acquisition for widening and improving the East Coast Road (ECR) between Thiruvanmiyur and Akkarai village, some stretches on the Velachery Main Road and also for the proposed Rs.50-crore Eastern Bypass Project. As part of removal of encroachments from its property, a row of shops on the Velachery Main Road in East Tambaram was demolished on Saturday. The 21-km-long Velachery Main Road is a State Highway (SH No. 48) connecting Tambaram with Saidapet via Velachery and is also known as Marmalong Bridge – Irumbuliyur Road. Improvement works, including widening and installing temporary medians, were carried out in the late 1990s. But the increasing accident rate, encroachments and other problems resulting in traffic congestion continued to be a cause of worry to the Highways Department. Plans to remove structures for a distance of 800 metres between the railway level-crossing and Bharatha Matha Street were in place to make way for approach roads and ramps for the road over bridge under construction to replace the level crossing (LC No. 30). Due to certain restrictions, the removal of these structures was put on hold. Elsewhere, boundaries of this road were already marked. The department would soon be stepping up its drive to remove encroachments for a distance of 500 metres in Selaiyur and a small portion in Gowrivakkam. Due to encroachments, the road width had shrunk to less than 50 feet in some spots, making them accident-prone. The objective was to make this road 150 feet wide, four-lane highway with permanent, raised medians. Officials also said that a survey for acquiring about 15 acres of land for widening the ECR between Thiruvanmiyur and Akkarai — a distance of about 11 km — has been completed. Land acquisition formalities would be expedited to widen it from the existing 16-metre-wide four-lane highway to a 26-metre-wide six-lane highway under the Chennai Metropolitan Development Programme (CMDP). Eastern BypassAnother proposal for a project that could significantly improve traffic flow on both the Velachery Main Road and the Grand Southern Trunk Road was the Eastern Bypass. The proposed 7.6-km-long road would originate at Rajakilpakkam and pass through Madambakkam, Mappedu, Tiruvanchery and Puthur villages before joining the GST Road at Peerkankaranai. The extent of land acquisition for this project was 59.45 acres, of which 28.7 acres came under “patta” category. Residents of Peerkankaranai have appealed to the Highways Department to acquire only government land and drop any move to acquire “patta” land as several hundred houses came under the original survey for the Eastern Bypass project. This project is also being executed under CMDP, which has given a token grant of Rs.1 crore for land acquisition. The estimated cost of the entire project, including civil works and land acquisition is around Rs.50 crore, officials said, adding work was progressing at a brisk pace.
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