Kochi | Roads, Bridges, Flyovers & Highways

[mohammedirshad06]

Originally Posted by e_arunsid

Even tho some of the pics are that of streches in thrissur district..It is still Kochi-Thrissur highway and Heavy traffic to Kochi is one the reason why we have a 4 lane highway there. No offence to Thrissur and its importance.

Metro limits often stretches outside official districts. For example, Aroor is part of Alleppey district. I hope no-one will consider Aroor outside Kochi Metro limits as its one of the essential components of Kochi City.

If the Kochi Masterplan gets approved by Govt of Kerala, it would more ridiculing for many, as even Irjnalakuda and Thodupuzha are designated to be Satellite hubs of Kochi.

In any sphere of life, places like Chalakuddy-Cherthala-Kodungallor are considered to be satellite hubs of the city. This thread is also meant to discuss Highways of Kochi too. And naturally the definition of Kochi goes even beyond official district boundaries, as Kochi is an urbansphere denoted by economic activities, while Ernakulam is just a portion of it.

Arun, as we all, Thrissur is twin city of Kochi. Since 11th century, both the cities existence depends of each other. Without Thrissur, there is no Kochi and without Kochi, there is no Thrissur. As someone said eariler, Kochi and Thrissur are same Rajyakarans annu....

[e_arunsid]

Agreed MI...Kochi and Thrissur one of main reasons why central kerala is the economic powerhouse of the state.

[mohammedirshad06]

Kerala CM announced weekly Cabinet decisions today, just a few minutes back

The important decision is that Thammam-Pullepady Road widening project is asked to start immediately. The Cabinet approved CM's proposal of allocating Rs 25 crore for compensation and initial expenses. The road widening is very important, as it will be the major road for diverting traffic after North ROB gets closed for Metro alignment

The long demand for Mulavakkad road got approved and district administration is asked to start the works immediately.

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Kochi Corporation will approach the State government with a request for tarring major city roads with a five-year guarantee clause.

The major city roads need to be re-laid under higher standards of construction failing which they would easily get damaged. The Corporation will also prepare a list of roads that need to be re-tarred with the condition that the contractor would guarantee the quality of the work for the next five years.

The list will be submitted to the government along with the request for implementing the guarantee clause, Tony Chammany, Kochi Mayor, informed the Corporation Council on Monday.

The Corporation has secured an overdraft of Rs. 5 crore, which will be used for settling the bills of contractors of the civic body.

Though the contractors had demanded that all the arrears should be cleared, it would not be possible at this stage considering the financial situation of the civic body.

If the contractors refuse to resume the work even after the rainy season, the Corporation will approach the Public Works Department for getting the works implemented, the Corporation council was informed.

The Corporation plans to intensify the tax collection drive for generating revenue. All the unauthorised buildings in the city will be surveyed and action will be initiated.

Crematorium

The Corporation Council also decided to assign the responsibility of renovating the crematorium at Ravipuram to the Rotary Club of Ernakulam.

The design for the renovated structure and other details will be provided by the civic body and it can be only after obtaining the permission of the civic body that any change in these conditions can be made.

The Corporation will prepare a list of properties and facilities at the crematorium before handing over the responsibility to the agency. The club will have to complete the work within six months of handing over the responsibility.

It will not be allowed to collect any charges from the general public for cremation, it was decided.

The Corporation will retain the ownership rights regarding the crematorium and the club will be allowed to display a board or a plaque.

A team of civic officials will oversee the renovation works, it was decided.

Those who took part in the discussion included K.J. Jacob, N. Venugopal, K.V. Manoj, Soumini Jain, Shyamala S. Prabhu and Ratnamma Raju.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...cle2315873.ece

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CC: Manorama

Estimate for Emergency Bridge prepared for Eloor Ferry-Cheranellor area. The new bridge would costs around Rs 22 Crore. The estimate will be submitted to the district collector for the approval. If approved, it would realization a long demand of the people of Eloor Island, which is often described as a time bomb, due to presence of several chemical and fertilizers industries. If the bridge comes reality, in event of an emergency, people can be evacuated fastly.

[mohammedirshad06]

Cruising thro' NH 47 from Aluva to Vytilla

[dpkanu]

Giving fresh hopes for opening up a new corridor to the city, the state government on Wednesday sanctioned Rs25 crore for acquiring land for the widening of Thammanam-Pulleppady Road. The first road in the city to be renovated under the detailed town planning (DTP) scheme, the Thammanam-Pulleppady stretch will open a parallel corridor to the city similar to Edappally-High Court and Sahodaran Ayyappan Roads.
The widening of the road is being implemented in connection with the proposed Metro Rail project. The 3.4kmlong ThammanamPulleppady Road will be widened to 22 metres. Though a total of Rs 22 crore has already been allocated under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, the project was at a standstill owing to the huge funds required for the acquisition of land.
However, the idea to include the project under the detailed town planning (DTP) scheme will now help the civic body to complete the project on time. Under the DTP scheme, the civic body will offer benefits like revised floor area ration and transfer of development rights (TDR) to the landowners. The Corporation has already completed the assessment of the total area of land to be acquired in the area.
"The widening of the Thammanam-Pulleppady Road will be completed in two phases. Initially the Padma-Kathrikkadavu stretch will be widened. Once the work is completed, the vehicles plying on the Kaloor-Kathrikkadavu Road will get a direct entry to the MG Road.," said a top Corporation official.
The Thammanam-Pulleppady Road widening will play a crucial role in easing traffic congestion that will arise out of the dismantling of the north overbridge in connection with the proposed metro rail project. Once the North RoB is demolished for widening, traffic will be rerouted through the Thammanam Pulleppady Road.

Source : Express Buzz

[mohammedirshad06]

Is it so-called toll collection? Is this our Pro-Toll people wants... So its nothing but, daylight looting!!!!

[mohammedirshad06]

To make the cleaning of the canals more effective, the Kochi Corporation is planning to construct service roads along the major canals in the city.
The decision in this regard was taken after the experts' suggestion to the civic body that the lack of service roads is the major hindrance in carrying out cleaning works on canals and drains.

Without the service roads, it will not be easy for the JCB and other vehicles to get access to the canals for cleaning purpose.

"The corporation will soon envisage a total station survey for collecting the basic information for initiating the project. After the survey, the report will be presented at the Corporation Council for approval," said an official at the corporation.

Nearly 25 canals, including ThevaraPerandoor, Pashnithode, Rameswaram, Kalvathy and Pandarachal, pass through the city. These canals, which once played a major role in Kochi's transport sector, are now filled with waste materials and weeds and as a result the flow of water in a majority of them have ebbed.

"Once the service roads are constructed, the cleaning works will be carried out easily using modern cleaning equipment," the official said.

Water Metro Project

The construction of service roads will also be an added advantage for the smooth implementation of the 'Water Metro' project. "The Water Metro project is proposed to make the major canals in the city navigable. The construction of service roads will help in setting up new boat jetties along the side of these canals," the official said.

Land Acquisition

The major hurdle in front of the civic body for implementing the service road project will be land acquisition.

"Finding funds for the land acquisition and rehabilitation will be the biggest challenge. However, considering the need for constructing the service roads, the civic body is planning to go ahead with the project," the official said.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/corporati...64-60-122.html

[mohammedirshad06]

Rs 2 crore granted for straightening the dangerous Pujari Curve in Airport-Seaport road. This is announced by PWD Minister Ibrahimkunju. The district administration is asked to fasten the Land Acquisition for the same and RBCK to start the works at the earilest

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Aluva Flyover

The 6 lane flyover is fully open but the carriageway beneath it isn't. As a result the flyover is just an ELEVATED ROAD. The flyover is meant to avoid Bypass and Pulinchode signals, both of which are "CHALU" right now.

Entering the flyover from CIAL side @ Alwaye Bypass Jn

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Aluva - Kalamassery section of NH-47 (66)

[mohammedirshad06]

Kochi Collector started discussions with land owners as a prelude to Land acquisition. The collector was discussing for securing a few plots near to the North ROB, for dummy test as part of soil testing and piling works.

He said, though not many buildings need to be demolished completely, majority will lose its outer boundaries or verandas. Compensation will be paid in liberal way and only after that, Land acquisition will happen.

Land acquisition is required from Kacheripady to Madhava Pharmacy junction to make the road into 21 meters. Currently it has only 17 meters.

A new service road will be constructed near to foot overbridge in North ROB.

Rs 158.8 Crore is earmarked for developing roads and new bridges, as part of road development before Metro works start.

40 crores is earmarked for new North ROB, which may go up after a revised tender estimate. A new overbridge at Salim Rajan Road has already been approved and works have commenced

38.40 Crores will be used to widen the South Railway station from Jos to South Railway station. 12.5 crore will be used to beautify and development of MG road.

30 crores will be used to widen and beautiful from Kacheripady to Marine Drive stretch of Banerjee Road. Rajaji Road, Salim Rajan Road, Thammam-Pullepady Road, Mulleserry Canal Road will be widen and developed soon as funds have been alloted. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will be supervising all the major road developments in the city with RBCK and PWD on work.

[ttand3t]

I happened to travel along the ICTT road and it took me less than 30 minutes to reach high court junction and enjoyed the scenic drive. If proper green cover along the road can be developed,the drive along the ICTT will be a much refreshing experience. But I have a strong feeling that once ICTT becomes fully operational,the stretch between Kalamassery and Ankamaly will become choked since when 2 container lorries pass, the signal will turn red and result in longer waiting at signals. Thats where seaport airport 2 nd phase becomes important.Now with the attention focussed on metro and related road developments,looks like seaport airport road has again gone to the back burner. It will spell doom when ICTT traffic picks up.

[mohammedirshad06]

Originally Posted by ttand3t

I happened to travel along the ICTT road and it took me less than 30 minutes to reach high court junction and enjoyed the scenic drive. If proper green cover along the road can be developed,the drive along the ICTT will be a much refreshing experience. But I have a strong feeling that once ICTT becomes fully operational,the stretch between Kalamassery and Ankamaly will become choked since when 2 container lorries pass, the signal will turn red and result in longer waiting at signals. Thats where seaport airport 2 nd phase becomes important.Now with the attention focussed on metro and related road developments,looks like seaport airport road has again gone to the back burner. It will spell doom when ICTT traffic picks up.

Defintely SPAP road will not be struck, as its one of the most pet projects of UDF, particularly IUML. Moreover city roads developments and SPAP are handled by two different agencies. While former is completely managed and developed by DMRC, SPAP is handled by RBCK and SPAP has different set of funding, mainly from NABAD rather than Govt of Kerala.

The main issue for SPAP is the issues of alignment near CIAL. The original alignment near Cochin Airport cannot be considered now, as CIAL already commissioned its Golf Club and second phase is underway!!! Moreover Railway's new Airport Railway station and Airport Tram are coming up in the original stretch allotted for SPAP. Hence a new alignment has to be fixed and the one proposed is severely objected by locals due to fresh set of LA and additional distance of around 3 Kms. The collector has called for meeting to sort out and recently PWD Minister himself visited to see what can be done.

I am sure, SPAP will never go back bench, because 3 parties are equally interested- 1. PWD Minister Ibrahimkunju as its IUML's flagship project; 2. Ports Minister- K Babu as it passes thro' his constituency along his personal interests in Thrikkara region and finally the current bureaucrats who are handling it have strong commitment towards it, say Dr.Beena (MD of RBCK), District Collector- Pareek and CIAL MD Kurien.

Already works for straightening the most dangerous part of SPAP are going to be rectified, which shows the commitment,

[ttand3t]

Originally Posted by mohammedirshad06

Defintely SPAP road will not be struck, as its one of the most pet projects of UDF, particularly IUML. Moreover city roads developments and SPAP are handled by two different agencies. While former is completely managed and developed by DMRC, SPAP is handled by RBCK and SPAP has different set of funding, mainly from NABAD rather than Govt of Kerala.

The main issue for SPAP is the issues of alignment near CIAL. The original alignment near Cochin Airport cannot be considered now, as CIAL already commissioned its Golf Club and second phase is underway!!! Moreover Railway's new Airport Railway station and Airport Tram are coming up in the original stretch allotted for SPAP. Hence a new alignment has to be fixed and the one proposed is severely objected by locals due to fresh set of LA and additional distance of around 3 Kms. The collector has called for meeting to sort out and recently PWD Minister himself visited to see what can be done.

I am sure, SPAP will never go back bench, because 3 parties are equally interested- 1. PWD Minister Ibrahimkunju as its IUML's flagship project; 2. Ports Minister- K Babu as it passes thro' his constituency along his personal interests in Thrikkara region and finally the current bureaucrats who are handling it have strong commitment towards it, say Dr.Beena (MD of RBCK), District Collector- Pareek and CIAL MD Kurien.

Already works for straightening the most dangerous part of SPAP are going to be rectified, which shows the commitment,

Thank you Mr Mohammed for the optimistic words.As u said,Kurian,Beena and Preekh is a good combo and they should be able to bring this to reality soon. I wish they extend the ICTT ROAD straight along Eloor ferry and join NH47 somewhere beyond Ankamaly or Chalakudy insted of entering at Kalamassery . Btw The photograph u took of periyar river with mangalapuzha bridge in the background written idyllic periyar at desom is clicked very close to my inlaws house in Aluva. Wish u a very meaningful holy month and colourful Eid.

[mohammedirshad06]

The entire relaying of roads and pothole filing works in the city will start from tomorrow. An order in this regard was issued by PWD Minister and handed over to district administration and PWD Officials.

The Pothole filing machine brought for testing in Trivandrum recently, would be brought to Kochi for works starting from tommorrow. A second machine would be purchased soon for the district for speeding the works. Roads which required to be relaid, would go for tendering by Thursday and works are expected to start by 3rd week of this month.

NHAI officials are asked to work for relaying few stretches of the road at Aroor, Vytilla, Padivattom, ICTT Container road which are required to complete before October. PWD officials are asked to complete the relaying works for10 kms long Aroor-Thuravoor stretch of NH before Onam.

The minister also got a written assurance from NHAI officials that Edapally ROB would be completed and opened for traffic before November. The written assurance was sort, after NHAI failed several deadlines in past. In event of delays in the deadline, the agreement has provision for imposing fines on the NHAI and contractors.

A meeting would be called with all PWD Chief Engineers, district collectors for discussing various road developments project to be undertaken within this financial year soon.

[Malayaali]

New Venduruthy bridge to be opened next month

BETTER CONNECTIVITY: The potholed Venduruthy overbridge that links Kochi with West Kochi
and the new bridge that would be opened soon

The new two-lane bridge being built parallel to the Venduruthy bridge is expected to be opened to traffic by September end.

The bridge being built by the Public Works Department (PWD) at a cost of Rs 30 crore would decongest the Venduruthy bridge which was built by the British in 1938. The existing bridge withstood the ravages of time, though regular inspection and repairs were not done. It also survived damages to its structure after being hit twice by a dredger deployed by the Cochin Port Trust.

But its surface continues to be pothole ridden, with both the Cochin Port Trust and the PWD failing to carry out timely repairs. This causes traffic hold ups, especially during peak hours. Sources in the PWD said that improper drainage is causing water logging on the bridge surface, leading to formation of potholes. As a result, two-wheelers and sometimes heavier vehicles encroach into the footpath, posing danger to pedestrians and cyclists.

Once the new bridge is commissioned, only two and three-wheelers are likely to be permitted to use the existing bridge. Alongside the new bridge, work is on to build an underpass linking the Naval Base with the Navy's residential area on the other side of the road. As for the repair and resurfacing works of the stretch from the bridge to Vathuruthy and up to the Mattancherry BOT bridge, the works would most likely be taken up after the rains.

The proposal to concrete the perennially potholed portion in front of the Naval Base was dropped because of the cost factor. “We hope to build a drain opposite the Base and carry out resurfacing of the stretch up to the Mattancherry bridge using bituminous macadam and bituminous concrete,” said a PWD source.

The Venduruthy bridge would have been opened a couple of years ago but for the Cochin Port Trust and the Navy expressing reservations about funding the project.

The Hindu

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Kochi City Highways

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