More underpasses sought in densely populated areas in Edappally-Muthakunnam NH 66 corridor

Throughout the 22 km Edappally-Muthakunnam NH 66 corridor, residents, merchants and others, demand more subsidies in the intense population with which the highway expanded in six lanes.

Panchayat began an agitation, leading to more underpass demand and the need to comply with the norms of Indian Roads Congress (IRC) norms to ensure the security of both driver and road users. As part of the agitation, a relay ‘Satyagraha’ began near the Koonammavu market.

Justin Elangical, one of the inhabitants of the region, has a few more places in Kerala, a dozen educational institution in a 250 -meter NH stretch in Kerala. “Extremely narrow service roads are getting worse. A single underpass a little further away cannot appeal to tens of hundreds of vehicles and pedestrians passing to the other side of the NH 66,” he added.

Many of these limited educational institutions, education centers, numerous places of worship, hospitals, banks, stores, a market, container gardens, goddesses and an Akshaya center on both sides of the highway. 19 When the Chemmayam Bridge, where Crore is allocated, is built, the flow of vehicles to the highway will increase. In this case, it will be difficult for vehicles and pedestrians in the densely populated area to use a single narrow underpass with a large service path of 5.70 m at the same time and insufficient vertical openness. Heavy vehicles and container trucks cannot pass through the service roads and the underpass. The net result is that all of them cause perennial traffic wheels at the Chithira Junction. Samara Samiti’s meeting Biju Pazhampilly said that it would prevent the safe and stable flow of vehicles through NH 66.

Samiti exceptions to NH’s retention walls, which are at a height of 22 feet heights, and blocks free air flow. Considering this and the location of many other trainings and other institutions, this and potential congestion could be avoided if a raised NH had been built along the region. Traders will also be affected in time. All of this is separate from the danger due to the possibility that the agitators, houses and other buildings on both sides stay in water during the rain.

The congregations in the region had agitations by demanding a new pair of sub -transitions on the Palalikadavu Road and Chemmayam Road.

In August 2024, the NHAI set it in June 2025 as the deadline to complete the six lanes of the Edapally-Muthakunnam NH 66 corridor. The sources in the agency said that they are in the process of building or build enough vehicles and pedestrian underpasses on the stretch, based on traffic requirements.