The Hindu 24.12.2013
No land acquisition for flyover
The Corporation on Monday rejected a proposal for acquisition of land for the redesigned flyover on Usman Road.
Speaking
to residents at a public consultation on Monday, Mayor Saidai Duraisamy
said “the project will be implemented on Corporation road without any
acquisition of private land.”
With the proposal being
rejected, the ramps will be redesigned to be seven-metre wide to
facilitate construction without land acquisition.
Three
options for design proposed on Monday involved acquisition of plots of
land, ranging in size from 3,654 sq. m. to 4,556 sq. m., on Usman Road.
The consultant had provided nine options for easing traffic congestion
on the 3.5-km stretch connecting Anna Salai and Mahalingapuram. Three of
them were shortlisted based on the feasibility study that covered
traffic volume count, pedestrian volume count and tracing of the origin
and destination of vehicles on the stretch.
One
of the options that are still under consideration involves the
construction of a flyover connecting Boag Road and Habibullah Road
junctions.
The option which will include junction
improvements and construction of pedestrian subways is likely to improve
the corridor from Mahalingpuram to Anna Salai, said an official of
Chennai Corporation.
“The dimensions of the structure
should be designed to ease traffic congestion in the long-term. But we
do not want land acquisition,” said K. Sekar, a resident of T. Nagar.
Residents are requested to send their suggestions in ten days to udayakumarr@cdmsmith.com or call 9380724121/04440506666.