Gadkari proposes double-decker model for Maduravoyal corridor
Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday said that the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has proposed to modify the design of the Chennai Port-Maduravoyal Elevated project into a double-decker elevated road to allow local traffic by building additional entry and exit ramps in the city.
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The State government has sought three entry and exit ramps in the elevated corridor for the benefit of the local traffic after the NHAI has made the project to exclusively cater to the freight movement to and fro from the port.
“I have given a proposal to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister that we will design a double-decker elevated corridor with the help of an international consultant with six-lane, if possible, even eight-lane. It will help solve the city’s traffic congestion for the next 20 years,” Gadkari told reporters after Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami called on him.
The present cost of the three-lane elevated corridor is Rs 3,100 crore. “The cost of the double-decker elevated road would go up to Rs 5,000 crore. The State government and the Chennai Port Trust would share the cost of land acquisition equally. On Chennai-Bengaluru expressway project, he said that the land acquisition for the project was completed and the contract for the construction would be awarded soon.
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