Chennai flyover connecting NH5 to be completed soon
Chennai- The ambitious project at Vyasarpadi is about to get completed very soon. This flyover will connect Chennai with the Kolkata highway (NH5).
It is a four lane highway that will ease the traffic flow in the Chennai city’s northern neighbourhood. This highway is Y shaped which is a lookalike to the flyover at Rangarajapuram in T. Nagar.
The Y shape of flyover starts on Basin Bridge road and then divides in two parts (lanes). On lane reaches Erukkancheri High Road and then it links the northern part of the Chennai city to the Kolkata highway (NH5). The second lane reaches Sathyamurthy Nagar Main Road which is situated near Kalyanpuram.
According to the government officials, only 30 percent of the work is left to be done on the project. Highways department has completed the construction work of a ramp on the Satyamurthy Nagar side. The work on the Kolkata highway has also been initiated.
A part of the flyover also crosses over the railway tracks near the Vyasarpadi Jiva station. Construction work at this part also been started by Southern Railway. Right now the traffic is seen at the service lanes on either sides of the flyover which is 3000 meters long.
It is expected that the State highways and railway department would complete their part in the project by September 2013. In 2006, the Chennai Metropolitan Development Programme (CMDP) was assigned many projects in Chennai which also included this flyover. Other flyovers are at Moolakadai, Porur, Thirumangalam and Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar.
But gradually, this flyover also involved Southern Railway for connecting ramps over the railway track. Furthermore, this project was undertaken by Highways department (Railways Works scheme) on equal cost sharing basis. The cost of this project is around Rs 88.68 crore.
As per an official, there is a delay in the completion of the flyover on scheduled date due to land acquisition problems.
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