Articles for Highways Roads

Highways Department starts repairing potholes on roads
3 weeks ago

Highways Department starts repairing potholes on roads

The Hindu  

A day after cyclone Fengal wreaked havoc in the city and suburbs, the Highways department has taken up work to repair potholes and bad patches on its roads. Repairs were taken up on major roads such as Anna Salai, Poonamallee High Road and Jawaharlal Nehru Salai and roads like Velachery - Tambaram Road, MGR Salai, Mudichur Road, Madhavaram – Redhills …

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Construction: The truth about what's happening on America's roads is hard to believe. Now what?
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Construction: The truth about what's happening on America's roads is hard to believe. Now what?

Slate  

The neighborhood of Allendale, in Shreveport, Louisiana, lies just west of downtown. “We have a U.S. Department of Highways.” America’s addiction to road construction goes back decades, enabled by naive policymaking, self-serving industry groups, and myopically trained highway engineers. “But you’ve got these titans of the Senate, people like John Stennis, absolutely going crazy.” Although controlled by fellow Democrats, Congress …

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Road expansion along Nilgiris highways ruining local ecology, increasing risk of landslips: activists
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Road expansion along Nilgiris highways ruining local ecology, increasing risk of landslips: activists

The Hindu  

The Confederation of Environment Associations of Nilgiris has written to the Principal Secretary of the Tamil Nadu government, Highways and Minor Ports Department, stating that ill-planned and ill thought-out road expansion work along the Ooty to Coonoor and Kotagiri to Mettupalayam Roads, has led to landslips along these stretches during spells of heavy rains in the district. “During this year’s …

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Poorly maintained State Highways passing through Thoothukudi affects traffic
1 year, 3 months ago

Poorly maintained State Highways passing through Thoothukudi affects traffic

New Indian Express  

THOOTHUKUDI: Thoothukudi corporation has proposed to take over 74-km-long state highways passing through the corporation wards, stating that the arterial roads being poorly maintained by the state highways departments affect road traffic. When the arterial road stretches were submerged in water during the heavy rains of 2020, the Thoothukudi corporation had allotted `22 crore only to evacuate waters using electric …

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PM Modi lauds Nitin Gadkari's infra push: A look at India's National Highways network in last 9 years
1 year, 7 months ago

PM Modi lauds Nitin Gadkari's infra push: A look at India's National Highways network in last 9 years

Firstpost  

India had a total of 91,287 km of National Highways till April 1, 2014, according to the official data. From building 12.1 km per day of roads in 2014-15, India saw 28.6 km of roads being constructed every day in 2021-22 New Delhi: With the unprecedented pace in building National Highways – over 53,000 kms added in last nine years …

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Bengaluru rains: Boats out on highways as IT hub witnesses severe waterlogging, traffic snarls | Watch
2 years, 3 months ago

Bengaluru rains: Boats out on highways as IT hub witnesses severe waterlogging, traffic snarls | Watch

India TV News  

Highlights Bengaluru has been witnessing heavy rains, and normal life in the IT hub of India has come to a halt Several areas, including highways and the outer ring road, have been busy with traffic CM instructed officials to see to it that water is drained out from the inundated roads at earliest Bengaluru has been witnessing heavy rains, and …

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Fish wastewater menace back to haunt Mangaluru residents, road users
3 years, 2 months ago

Fish wastewater menace back to haunt Mangaluru residents, road users

The Hindu  

The fish wastewater menace has again come to haunt the city residents as well as users of roads and highways with the beginning of the fishing season coupled with the near end of the Southwest Monsoon rains. Trucks and mini goods vehicles that transport fish primarily from the Mangaluru Old Port spill the wastewater right from Bunder all along the …

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