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Four-lane East Coast Road under study

T.S. Shankar

Tamil Nadu Road Development Company to be entrusted with the task

— Photo: M. Karunakaran

SET FOR EXPANSION: A view of two-lane East Coast Road at Neelankarai.

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Road Development Company (TNRDC) has been entrusted with the task of taking up a techno-feasibility study besides geometric corrections on East Coast Road to covert it into a four-lane road from the existing two-lane main carriageway.

“The Tamil Nadu government is keen on widening the main carriage of ECR to help de-congest the increasing road traffic flowing on this stretch, as many theme parks and boating yard facilities are located on this entertainment corridor,” a senior official of the TNRDC told The Hindu on Monday.

The official said the TNRDC authorities, especially those connected with the road traffic management, would meet software companies located on the IT corridor next week to work together and sort out matters relating to traffic problems.

Referring to the proposed 10-lane toll plaza at Perungudi on the IT corridor, the official said apart from this primary toll plaza, the TNRDC authorities would be constructing satellite toll plazas at Thorapakkam, the Sholinganallur-Medavakkam junction, the ECR link road to Sholinganallur and Siruseri.

The toll for one-way travel for three-wheelers, including autorickshaws, from Perungudi to Siruseri has been fixed at Rs.6; for four-wheelers it is Rs.17; buses including those operated by the State Road Transport Corporation will be charged Rs.44 and trucks Rs.66.

The official said that 12 more foot overbridges (FOBs) would come up on the 20.1-km IT corridor six-lane main carriage way. Already, there are three FOBs between Madhya Kailash Temple and the SRP Tools Road junction. The IT corridor is currently handling 40,000 vehicles a day.

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