With work on the Kochi Metro Rail expected to begin by
May, a tentative plan has been charted out to divert vehicles entering
the city from Kalamassery.
This is because the work
on the pillars and viaduct on the Aluva-Pettah stretch will occupy about
eight metres width of the road – about four metres on either side of
the four-lane road along the alignment (the Vyttila-Pettah road will be
widened as four-lane soon).
Parking curbs
While
steps will be taken to ensure two-lane traffic flow on either side of
the Aluva-Edappally highway, many narrow portions of the Edappally-M.G.
Road-Pettah stretch will have to reckon with single-lane traffic. Here,
steps will be taken to develop alternative roads to divert vehicles.
Roads will be widened and parking banned wherever necessary to ensure
two-lane traffic in the city.
The civil works of the
metro project have already been tendered in four packages –
Aluva-Kalamassery, Kalamassery-International Stadium, Stadium-South
Railway Station and Railway station-Pettah. By confining the works to
200 metre-long stretches at a given time, care will be taken to prevent
traffic being thrown haywire.
The police will finalise the traffic diversion plans, following which trials are planned by April end.
Traffic
sign boards, lights, warnings and speed regulation boards and traffic
diversions at entry points of by-roads will be displayed, says a press
release issued by Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL), following a meeting
of the stakeholders held here on Tuesday.
The
meeting was chaired by Elias George, Managing Director of KMRL and
attended by P. Sriram, Kochi Project Director of DMRC; K. Padmakumar,
Ernakulam Range Inspector General of Police; Sheikh Pareeth, District
Collector; K.G. James, Commissioner of Police; Satheesh Bino, Ernakulam
Rural Superintendent of Police; Mahesh Kumar, KMRL Director (Projects);
Mohammed Rafiq, Deputy Commissioner of Police; and Baby Vinod and K.K.
Shams ACPs (Traffic) –City and Edappally.
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