Tripunithura bypass caught up in red-tape

 

The proposed Tripunithura bypass might have to be put in cold storage since delay in decision making by stakeholders increased the land acquisition cost by over 20 times during the past nine years.

The four-lane bypass is crucial to decongest the city and its eastern suburbs and the PWD (NH wing) had come up with a proposal to build 1.50 km of the 8-km-long bypass as an elevated highway over the Andhakaran canal. The cost of acquiring land along 3.50-km-long Mattakuzhi-Tiruvankulam stretch rose from Rs 6.57 crore in 2004 to Rs 130 crore in 2012. Based on this, PWD (NH wing) sent a revised estimate to the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) in August 2012. The Ministry is yet to respond to it.

 

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