With worsening traffic congestion on roads to Kakkanad and Collectorate Junction, there is increasing pressure to complete the widening of Seaport-Airport Road to a four- or six-lane corridor and to build an elevated road on the Olimugal-Collectorate Junction-Chitrapuzha stretch as a long-term measure to streamline traffic flow in and around Kakkanad. In the past month, traffic snarls on roads leading …
Motorists, traders, residents associations, and people’s representatives are on the warpath yet again with Kochi Metro Rail Limited and the district administration for not redeveloping alternative diversion roads, a month since works began on the metro’s 11.20-km Kakkanad extension. Contrary to expectations that alternative roads would be redeveloped and junctions widened before erecting barricades, the metro agency had placed barricades …
