In an effort to decongest the temple town of Tiruttani, the Highways Department has called for tenders to construct a new bypass for 3.2 km. The two-lane road will connect the Sadras-Chengalpet–Kancheepuram–Arakkonam–Tiruttani (SCKAT) Road with NH 205.
Sources said that once the project is completed, nearly 70% of the traffic inside the town will reduce. “The bus stand is being shifted near the Arakkonam Road, which will further reduce traffic on the interior roads,” an official said. Land acquisition has been completed and payment has been made for 9.2 acres. The project will be taken up under the Comprehensive Road Infrastructure Development Programme (CRIDP) for the year 2015-16.
Two-year period
Though the road with two-lanes and hard shoulders on either side would take only six months to build, the project period is two years since the work includes construction of a rail overbridge at Lakshmanapuram and a bridge across the Nandi river at Valliammapuram. The ROB will be 800 m long and the bridge 100 m long. “There is no railway gate at the spot and the bridge would come up across the railway track. This portion over the track will be constructed by the railways. The bridges alone will take up 73 % of the cost of the project. We hope that the works will commence by June,” an official source explained.
Meanwhile, tenders have been called for the reconstruction of the Kallar bridge near Arakkonam on the SCKAT Road at a cost of ₹5.43 crore under CRIDP for the year 2018-17.
