Minister asks officials to ready plans to decongest Vyttila Junction
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The six-lane flyover on the junction has failed to finish snarls, says Mohamed Riyas
Officials of the PWD (NH Wing), National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), and town visitors police should conduct a joint inspection of Vyttila in Kochi and discover a short-term answer to the mounting visitors snarls regardless of the commissioning of the six-lane flyover on the junction, Minister for Public Works P.A. Mohamed Riyas stated at an internet assembly on Sunday.
The PWD and different businesses involved should additionally ready a complete grasp plan to result in seamless and signal-free visitors on the junction on the idea of a visitors research and redesign the junction in a scientific method. Land acquisition too may very well be considered, if wanted. The projected manifold improve in visitors alongside the NH Bypass should be saved in thoughts whereas readying a scientific and sustainable grasp plan, he advised officials.
The assembly was convened within the backdrop of accelerating public unrest over visitors hold-ups at Vyttila and Kundannoor. The situation of roads at Kundannoor Junction is especially unhealthy owing to undulations over paver blocks laid by the PWD on the Maradu and Thevara sides of the flyover. Pedestrians on the two junctions too have discovered the going powerful as footpaths had been dismantled.
Mr. Riyas directed officials to take into account the proposals in a report submitted by the PWD (NH Wing) in 2019 on redesigning the bottlenecked junctions.
Mayor M. Anilkumar, Hibi Eden, MP; P.T. Thomas, MLA, District Collector S. Suhas, District Police Chief C.H. Nagaraju, and RTO P.M. Shabeer attended the assembly.
The assembly took particular observe of the truth that buses alone operated round 5,000 journeys every day from the Vyttila Mobility Hub. Traffic congestion is worst on the northern facet of the junction, the place automobiles from Palarivattom, wanting to flip to S.A. Road and in the direction of Thripunithura and the mobility hub jostle for area on the bottlenecked portion between the flyover and a row of retailers that stand in the way in which of automobiles wanting to take free-left flip.
Incidentally, the PWD has not paid heed to repeated requests from the police to reduce the circumference of the roundabout it constructed beneath the flyover at Vyttila, and to chip off visitors islands that protrude into the carriageway of automobiles.
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