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#1 · (Edited)
Please post the currents status of NHAI's projects, relevent maps and photos here.Almost all highways in TamilNadu are being converted to 4 lines.So we can have common thread for all road projects in tamilnadu instead of posting in the different city threads.
 
#204 ·
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This practice of using the highways as places to dry their harvests and threshing of the grains to separate them from the stems is fraught with danger to the lives of the people doing this as well as the passengers and vehicles using the road ways.

I witnessed this horrible practices several years ago when I was on a trip to Trichy, Thanjavur, Kumbakonam, and Poompuhar and all along the way, the roads were diverted for this use by the locals. I was aghast at this practice, as cars can easily loose controls on these surfaces.

The local governments and police should ban this practice and be vigilant against these people.

What is the use of building high speed road ways when people start using them for entirely different purposes?
 
#207 ·
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great news.

But there was no news updates on second bridge on NH 7 across Cauvery!!??

Salem-Nammakal and Karur-Madurai 4 lane inauguration will bring down the traveling time from Bangalore/Hosur/Salem to Madurai/Tirunelveli/Tuticorin drastically.
 
#208 ·
Construction of six-lane highway on Chennai-Tada section to begin next week

CHENNAI: The construction of a six-lane highway on the Chennai-Tada section of NH-5 will begin next week, according to a press release.

This was announced by Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T.R. Baalu during his review of the ongoing National Highway Development Projects (NHDP) in Tamil Nadu in Chennai on Friday.

The Minister also informed that the entire 342-km Golden Quadrilateral in the State has been completed and the same would be widened to six lanes along with 93 km of Tambaram-Tindivanam section of NH-45 under Phase-V of NHDP.

He added that out of 756 km under the North-South corridor scheme, a stretch of 97.4 km has already been completed and the work for widening 576.6 km is going on.

About 650 km would be completed by March 2009 and the entire work would be completed by June 2009.

Under the NHDP Phase-III, 1465 km would be constructed in the State, out of which work is under way in 527 km and the remaining 938 km is under various stages of implementation. For the Tirupati-Tiruthani section (NH-205) and Coimbatore-Mettupalayam (NH-67) the bids are due on Januray 28. Construction of four lanes in the Tindivanam-Tiruchi-Madurai sections of NH-45 and NH-45B has almost been completed and the completed sections have been opened to traffic, the Minister added.

In all, about 930-km length is expected to be completed by March-April 2009.

Source: http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/24/stories/2009012453680500.htm
 
#209 ·
Highway stretch to open today


BRAND NEW: The newly constructed bridge across the Cauvery connecting Thavuttupalayam in Karur district and Velur in Namakkal district

KARUR: All is set for the opening of the new four-lane stretch between Karur and Namakkal on Saturday.

The speciality of the project on National Highway 7 is that a new major bridge across the Cauvery has been constructed. The total cost of the project, executed on build, operate, transfer basis is Rs. 208 crore.

Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T.R. Baalu will dedicate the highway stretch and the bridge to the nation on Saturday at a function at Velur on the banks of Cauvery.

The highway stretch from Mudalaipatty in Namakkal district to Manmangalam in Karur district, work on which commenced in October 2006, is 43.5 km long.

The project envisaged construction of two major bridges across the Cauvery and the Thirumanimuttar (Namakkal district) as also four other minor bridges. While the bridge across Cauvery is 900 metres long, the one across Thirumanimuttar is around 100 metres long. The new bridges have been constructed beside the existing ones.

The project also saw the construction of four flyovers at Velayuthampalayam, Mohanur Road, Vallipuram and Mudalaipatty, giving an imposing appearance to the whole stretch developed by the national Highways Authority of India (NHAI) from a two-lane highway.

The project envisages seven underpasses to facilitate movement of people, cattle and vehicles across the highway in important areas, 20 bus bays and service lanes stretching to 11.52 km. A toll plaza would be established at Keerambur in Namakkal district but collection would be deferred for some weeks.

Project contractor Gannon Dunkerley and Company Limited had constructed the existing bridge across the Cauvery in 1949.

Source: http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/24/stories/2009012454140600.htm
 
#210 ·
Four-laning of Salem-Namakkal highway to be completed next month

Four-lane, 30-km stretch from Namakkal to Karur dedicated to nation

PARAMATHI VELUR (NAMAKKAL): Four-laning of the 50-km Salem – Namakkal section of National Highway 7 is likely to be completed by the end of next month, Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T.R. Baalu said here on Saturday.

After inaugurating the four-lane, 30-km stretch of the highway from Namakkal to Karur at a function, the Minister said that there was no delay in the implementation of the four-laning project in the Salem – Namakkal section. Works in other sections were progressing well.

Mr. Baalu said the ministry had sanctioned over Rs.54,000 crore to Tamil Nadu for various projects. The total investment included about Rs.33,000 crore for developing road infrastructure. The projects also included establishment of a maritime university and a maritime complex near Chennai.

The development of better road infrastructure, he said, would help minimise road accidents and bring down operational cost of vehicles. The country witnessed over 4.6 lakh road accidents in 2006 in which over 1.05 lakh people lost their lives and about five lakh persons sustained injuries.

Apart from improving the road infrastructure to prevent accidents, the government was promoting awareness of traffic safety among people, he said.

Mr. Baalu said that the toll collected on roads in India was the lowest compared to many other countries, including developed nations.

Source: http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/25/stories/2009012560460900.htm
 
#211 ·
can anyone tell me, the entire stretch from Tindivanam to Ulundurpet 4 laning is completed, or any incomplete stretches are there? particularly tindivanam-villupuram
Still Tindivanam-Villupuram NH 45 4 laning is not completed. But when i traveled yesterday i can find some work is progressing in this stretch.

It looks they can open it before March end. If this is opened, Chennai to Ulunderpet Nh 45 will be fully 4 laned one.

But the quality of work from Tindivanam to Villupuram is not like the one from Tambaram to Tindivanam....

No bus bays... motels.... just TRB wants to open the stretches in half baked condition :bash:

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Any one update how the new Nammakal-Karur NH 7, 4 lane looks.
 
#215 ·
Still Tindivanam-Villupuram NH 45 4 laning is not completed. But when i traveled yesterday i can find some work is progressing in this stretch.

It looks they can open it before March end. If this is opened, Chennai to Ulunderpet Nh 45 will be fully 4 laned one.

But the quality of work from Tindivanam to Villupuram is not like the one from Tambaram to Tindivanam....

No bus bays... motels.... just TRB wants to open the stretches in half baked condition :bash:

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Any one update how the new Nammakal-Karur NH 7, 4 lane looks.
Thanks arul for the updates
 
#216 ·
Smart Cards on Tollways

With in a couple of years, you can expect the smart card you produce to pay toll tax along the IT Expressway in the city, to offer more services. For example, you can use it as a debit card at entertainment centres, hotels, fuel stations and parking lots along the expressway.

Efkon India, which enabled the smart card and the toll system on the IT Expressway intends to make the card a multi-purpose one. “But this necessitates installation of card readers at various locations on the IT Expressway, which may take up to two years. The smart card would function as a kind of a dedicated debit card,” said CEO Pushkar Kulkarni.

Efkon India, a wholly owned subsidiary of Austria-based Efkon, specializes in intelligent transportation systems and payment solutions on highways.

The graphics, personalisation and issuance of cards is being handled by IT Expressway Ltd (ITEL), a special purpose vehicle of Tamil Nadu Road Development Corp that developed the IT Corridor on Rajiv Gandhi Salai.

“Smart cards have to be touched at the readers located at the five toll plazas within the Expressway and the money is deducted from the cardholder’s account on ITEL’s website. According to the norms specified by the Reserve Bank of India, about Rs 20,000 can be stored on a card at a time if it is being used as a common purse for low value transactions,” Kulkarni told to The New Indian Express. Thereafter, it would have to be recharged with a fresh amount.

Efkon is also developing the Tiruchy tollway, which is currently in the design stage. “It will take another six months to complete.” Two more projects in traffic management systems and toll systems are underway between Salem and Kumarapalayam and Kumarapalayam and Chengapalli near Coimbatore. At present, they are in the installation and commissioning stage.

“While the setting up of the toll systems costs around Rs 5 crore, the traffic management system costs between Rs 5 crore and Rs 15 crore.Efkon sees fresh opportunity in the proposed toll roads in Karnataka.

“Developing the toll system for every 100 km of road means a Rs10 crore business for the company. Efkon holds a 50 per cent market share in the country,” pointed out Chief Technology Officer, V Rangarajan.

With the new projects in its kitty, the company’s revenue for present calendar year is expected to touch Rs 100 crore as against Rs 60 crore last year.

The credit crunch, he admitted, has affected new projects, as infrastructure companies are not being able to achieve financial closures.
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/...ID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&SectionName=rSY|6QYp3kQ=&SEO=
 
#219 ·
itis said, that madurai, virudhunagar four lane is going to be opened in the first week of
Feb ,and the stretch is 48 KM, how far it has shortened due to straitening and bypassing the curved towns, can any one tell? I surmise, from
chennai to Kanyakumari, it may be more than 50 KM is to be shortened, May it be so
 
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