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[PPJ]

I was wondering why that bend when land is available? Or may be intentional to slow down vehicles since there is a junction there.

[sanjupalayat]

Originally Posted by PPJ

I was wondering why that bend when land is available? Or may be intentional to slow down vehicles since there is a junction there.

No, its not intentional for sure, when the land was acquired for bypass several years ago it was really straight, but after that due to the pressure from certain influential people alignment was redrawn several times to suit their interest, it mainly happened in the Thndayad-Pooladikunnu section, i know it because i am from chevarambalam which is very close to bypass. Thats how everything works nowadays..

[dinakar]

Originally Posted by sanjupalayat

No, its not intentional for sure, when the land was acquired for bypass several years ago it was really straight, but after that due to the pressure from certain influential people alignment was redrawn several times to suit their interest, it mainly happened in the Thndayad-Pooladikunnu section, i know it because i am from chevarambalam which is very close to bypass. Thats how everything works nowadays..

വളഞ്ഞോ തിരിഞ്ഞോ ആയികൊട്ടെ .... 45 m വീതി ഉണ്ടല്ലോ അത് മതി..
atleast there wont be issue of 4 laning this stretch

[sanjupalayat]

Hope you know the volume of accidents happening on this stretch, most of those because of lack of visibility and curves.

[dinakar]

Originally Posted by sanjupalayat

Hope you know the volume of accidents happening on this stretch, most of those because of lack of visibility and curves.

yes,, true.. but once 4 laned direct collissions can be avoided , thats why i am dissapointed that they are not considering making it 4 laned in the first phase itself

[Irshad]

Originally Posted by dinakar

yes,, true.. but once 4 laned direct collissions can be avoided , thats why i am dissapointed that they are not considering making it 4 laned in the first phase itself

NHAI executives are visting (next week) calicut to study the possibilities of making this bypass 4 lane....

Accidents are not only due to curves,but mainly due to bad driving habit,no one is obeying the rule and nobody is there to enforce the rule...

[PPJ]

64km of Kozhikode roads to be dug up

KOZHIKODE: Brace for a heavy traffic jams for a long time to come. The multi-crore sewerage project has taken off and authorities are now planning to dig up 64km of city roads to lay the pipeline. Traffic officials are already perturbed over the certainity that traffic in city will go haywire.

Under the project, pipelines will be laid from Kallayi in the south of the city to Puthiyangadi and Kundaparamba in the north and Canoli Canal in the west and railway in the east.

The period set for the completion of the work is two years. However, according to officials, the project is unlikely to be completed in this period.

The roads, including national highways and state roads, which pass through the city, will be dug up. Officials say traffic should be banned completely on the roads and diverted through other roads. The officer said many of the roads will have to be closed for months.

The diversion of vehicles is likely to cause recurrent traffic jams in the city as most of the roads are already congested, according to a senior traffic police official. The official expressed apprehension that the issue will be at its worst when the major roads in the city will be closed as traffic will have to be diverted through pocket roads.

The work of the sewerage project started recently from Puthiyara. The movement of vehicles through the Puthiyara Road has been diverted through the Sabha Road till the completion of work, which is expected to take months.

Officials said the sewerage project is a necessary for the development of the city and the public should follow the direction of traffic police in order to minimize snarls.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...w/12002899.cms

[Sali_varakkal]

Originally Posted by sanjupalayat

Well, the one over the First gate, you mentioned was not build was British, it is a post independence bridge inaugurated in the 60's by the then president of India S. V. Giri.

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paramount tower hotel is in the background. The Railway premises are now kept neat, after the boundary walls are built.

You can see south bound train going to the third platform. Railway is causing a lot of hardships by making people go to 3rd platform

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[Irshad]

The City Road Improvement Project (CRIP) in Thiruvananthapuram will be emulated by the Kerala Road Fund Board (KRFB) for road development in major cities and towns in the State such as Kochi, Kozhikode, Kottayam, Thrissur, Malappuram, and Kannur.

The demand from people in these places and elected representatives and the success in developing 42.397 km of roads in the capital city have led the KRFB to adopt the Thiruvananthapuram model for the six places, a KRFB official told The Hindu .

Improvements would be made in the projects based on the experiences in the capital city, he said.

The decision comes at a time when the last phase of CRIP is under way in the city and the way in which the roads have been developed and maintained by Thiruvananthapuram Road Development Company Ltd. (TRDCL), the concessionaire of CRIP, has been appreciated, despite the delay owing to a host of problems, including land acquisition.

Consultants will be employed this month for expediting the work, and they will have to submit their reports to the KRFB. It has been decided to take up only 40 to 50 km of roads in Kottayam, Thrissur, Malappuram, and Kannur for development as part of the strategy to limit the project to Rs.1,250 crore. The consortiums that come forward will also find it easy if the projects are limited to under 50 km for each city and under Rs.1,500 crore. It is estimated that one km of road development on the lines of that in Thiruvananthapuram will cost Rs.2.5 crore.

Roads up to 69.14 km have been identified for the Cochi City Road Improvement Project (CCRIP), and 19 roads are to be taken up by the KRFB. Under the Kozhikode City Road Improvement Project (KCRIP), road development will be taken up in three phases. In the first phase, 30.55 km of roads will be developed, 27.15 km in the second phase, and 13.3 km in the final phase. The road corridors for both Kochi and Kozhikode have been identified.

Parking problems that had not been addressed in the capital city even after CRIP was implemented and the land use problem would be addressed when projects were prepared for these cities, the KRFB official said. A minimum of seven months planning would be needed for the consultants to come up with detailed drawings and technical survey reports.


Consultants to be employed this month

Corridors for Kochi, Kozhikode identified

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper...cle2934301.ece

[sanjupalayat]

At last a ray of hope for the citizens of Calicut, can you guys guess which road is going to be developed in Phase 1?

I think either Kannur road or Wayanad road should get the priority, but those are national highways, can KCRIP work on National highways?

[Aslesh]

Here are they

http://www.krfb.org/content/projects/

[mohammedirshad06]

Originally Posted by Aslesh

Here are they

http://www.krfb.org/content/projects/

Any idea of implementing concessionaire or company? In Trivandrum, its done by a dedicated company for the purpose.... In Kochi, not yet known... Likely to be RBCK and KSCC....

[sanjupalayat]

Originally Posted by Aslesh

Here are they

http://www.krfb.org/content/projects/

Out of this, Stadium-Puthiyara, Mananchira-Vellimadukunnu and Pushpa jn-Mankavu are the most important ones. Instead of Karaparamba-Kaluthankadavu, it would have been better if they go for the 4 laning of Arayidathupalam-Meenchanda section of Mini Bypass which suffocates during peak hours. Pushpa jn-Meechanda/beypore must also get preference, i guess land acquisition must be the problem there. Panathuthazham-CWRDM is a new road i guess which is a part of Gandhiroad-kuniyil kavu-mimibypass-kottoly-chevarambalam-mundikkal thazham-CWRDM road project also Vellimadukunnu-Kovoor road.

[deewana]

Originally Posted by Aslesh

Here are they

http://www.krfb.org/content/projects/

some status (as the site is not updated for atleast 1year)

1.the only portion where land acquisition is completed ( length is just 600m) they are now waiting for completion of drainage works to be completed.

2. in the second one some portion is already 4 lined.

3. notified

4. can any one draw this road on google maps (how it will looks in mcc coeners)

5. most important part of the project, nothing is happend yet
6. not aware
7. for last seventeen years we are realigning now the width of road is reduced to 12m from the earlier proposed 20m due to protest.

[sanjupalayat]

Originally Posted by deewana

some status (as the site is not updated for atleast 1year)



4. can any one draw this road on google maps (how it will looks in mcc coeners)

Here is it,

Ghandhi Road-Mavoor Road



Ghandhi Road-Mini bypass which is a part of proposed Ghandhiroad-CWRDM-IIM-Kunnamangalam road.

[deewana]

I was confused bit because there is any plan to acquire the land in front of MCC which is now KMCT corporate office. other wise vehicle should have to move against present one way traffic in kannur and waynad road to get connect MCC cross road and Gandhi road

[simpliCITY]

Originally Posted by PPJ

I was wondering why that bend when land is available? Or may be intentional to slow down vehicles since there is a junction there.

If you check the land cleared for bypass in the old wikimapia map, You can see, It is amazingly straight from Malapparamba to Vengalam ( except two bends in Vengeri and Pooladikkunnu jns.)

So I think they made it intentionally for the reason mentioned by you.

[Sali_varakkal]

Originally Posted by simpliCITY

If you check the land cleared for bypass in the old wikimapia map, You can see, It is amazingly straight from Malapparamba to Vengalam ( except two bends in Vengeri and Pooladikkunnu jns.)

So I think they made it intentionally for the reason mentioned by you.

The presence of horizontal curve imparts centrifugal force which is a reactive force acting outward on a vehicle negotiating it. On a curved road, this force tends to cause the vehicle to overrun or to slide outward from the centre of road curvature.

The centrifugal force has two effects:
A tendency to overturn the vehicle about the outer wheels and a tendency for transverse skidding.

When a vehicle negotiates a horizontal curve, the rear wheels follow a path of shorter radius than the front wheels . This phenomenon is called offtracking, and has the effect of increasing the effective width of a road space required by the vehicle. Therefore,to provide the same clearance between vehicles traveling in opposite direction on curved roads as is provided on straight sections, there must be extra width of carriageway available.

This is from IRC website. Its sad that this bends is a death trap for motorists

[deewana]

road improvement plan approved for 400 cr, minister says land is already acquired

[simpliCITY]

Originally Posted by Sali_varakkal

This is from IRC website. Its sad that this bends is a death trap for motorists

Then why they made a curve road in an available straight land??