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Speed limit to be cut to 40kmph on city roads

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The Hindu        11.12.2018 

Speed limit to be cut to 40kmph on city roads

Motorists, who exceed above 40kmph, will be booked for overspeeding and fine will be imposed on them. S. Siva Saravanan

Motorists, who exceed above 40kmph, will be booked for overspeeding and fine will be imposed on them. S. Siva Saravanan  

It will come into effect once Collector notifies through gazette

Clocking the speedometer above 40 kmph in the city limits will soon attract fine for overspeeding as authorities are gearing up to cut down the speed limit from 50 kmph to 40 kmph.

The new speed limit will come into effect in the city once the District Collector notifies the same through a gazette.

A special committee with representations from various departments has already submitted its request to the District Collector seeking a revision of the speed limit in city.

“The main reason why the committee sought the district administration to reduce the speed limit in city roads was to bring down accidents caused by overspeeding.

The speed limit was fixed 50 kmph years back when the vehicle population was comparatively low. Now the number of vehicles in the city has increased manifold,” said Sujit Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Coimbatore city.

The meeting of the special committee had representation from the Police Department, the Road Transport Authority, TNSTC, Coimbatore Corporation and the Highways Department.

The committee unanimously reached at the conclusion that speed limit should be revised considering the increase in the number of vehicular population, accidents caused by overspeeding and other factors.

Approximately 500 new vehicles added to the roads of Coimbatore city a day.

The committee has further suggested to fix speed limit to 30 kmph in six stretches in the city namely Gandhipuram - Ganapathy, Sukrawarpet - Avinashi flyover, Vysial Street - Selvapuram, Cross Cut Road, 100 Feet Road and Bharathiar Road.

Enforcement

Once the speed limit of 40 kmph is notified in city roads, except on the six stretches, boards with the revised speed limit will be placed on the sides of roads. The police will then start enforcing the new speed limit.

The traffic police will conduct check speed limits of vehicles plying in city limits using speed radars.“We are already having two speed radars to check overspeeding. We are in the process of procuring five more speed radars which are expected to arrive by early in January 2019,” said Mr. Kumar.

 

Corpn. on greening drive on 203 roads

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The Hindu       10.12.2018  

Corpn. on greening drive on 203 roads

Taking roots:70 saplings will be planted in Anna Nagar Second Avenue.File Photo

Taking roots:70 saplings will be planted in Anna Nagar Second Avenue.File Photo  

6,000 saplings planted in Madhavaram and Sholinganallur

The Chennai Corporation has identified 203 roads for sapling plantation during this northeast monsoon.

Work on most of the roads will be completed in a month. “Initially, we had identified 100 roads in the first phase this year. But the number of roads has been increased to 203 as per the revised list,” said an official.

Of the 23,000 saplings proposed this year, 6,000 have been planted along roads in areas such as Madhavaram and Sholinganallur. Work on important roads such as Anna Nagar Second Avenue, Tank Bund Road, R.K. Mutt Road, College Road, Haddows Road, Arcot Road, P.T. Rajan Salai, Rajamannar Salai, Mount Poonamalle Road, East Coast Road, Sardar Patel Road, Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Perambur High Road, Kolathur Main Road, Paper Mills Road and Pulianthope High Road will be taken up shortly.

For example, in Anna Nagar Second Avenue, 70 saplings will be planted this month. The Corporation is also facing another challenge — commercial establishments along the roads are unwilling to plant trees near their premises for fear that this might conceal their boards and signs.

According to the revised proposal, Ennore High Road will get 800 tree saplings, Inner Ring Road in Manali will get 750, Paper Mills Road will get 500 and Kolathur Main Road will get 300.

Core city areas

But roads in the core city areas will get fewer trees because of inadequate space. For example, Corporation officials have been able to identify just 50 spots for planting saplings along the Valluvar Kottam High Road where a large number of commercial establishments have been located. Sterling Road will also get 50 saplings.

The project was begun to increase city’s green cover from 14.9% to 20.2%.

 

Design preparation on for Avinashi Road flyover

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The Hindu       25.05.2018  

Design preparation on for Avinashi Road flyover

The flyover for 8.6 km from Uppilipalayam will be a four-lane one with nine ramps.S. SIVA SARAVANANS_SIVA SARAVANAN

The flyover for 8.6 km from Uppilipalayam will be a four-lane one with nine ramps.S. SIVA SARAVANANS_SIVA SARAVANAN  

The project is expected to cost over Rs. 1,000 crore

The State Highways Department is expected to come up with a design for the proposed flyover on Avinashi Road in a couple of months.

An official of the department said the flyover for 8.6 km from Uppilipalayam would be a four-lane one with nine ramps. While five would be up ramps, four would be down ramps. These would be connected to the main Avinashi Road. The soil test was over and the alignment had been finalised.

Now, the project was in the design stage and the consultant was expected to prepare the design in a couple of months. Then, the department would finalise it, the official said.

The locations for the ramps had been identified. About 40-metre space was needed in these locations. So the project would involve land acquisition.

Each ramp would be 350 to 400 metres long.

The project was still in a preliminary stage. Once the design was drafted and the basic structure finalised, a model of the flyover would be displayed and opinion of the stakeholders would be taken.

There was a lot of interest in the project and it was expected to cost over Rs. 1,000 crore, the official added.

Architect Arun Prasad of Coimbatore Citizen’s Council said the design planned for the flyover seemed to be fine.

The number of ramps planned would bring down traffic congestion in key locations.

However, if the metro rail project was to come up on the Avinashi Road stretch in the future, it would have to go underground, he said.

 
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