Mangalore: City's First Flyover Near Derebail to be Ready in June 09
Daijiworld Media Network—Mangalore (RD/CN)
Mangalore, May 25: The flyover at Kuntikana - Derebail, at the intersection of National Highway (NH) 17 and Bajpe Airport Road here, will be open for traffic within the next fortnight. This will make it the first flyover in the city.
The construction of this fly-over is in its final stages and once it is functional, it is expected to help ease the road blocks at Kuntikan junction would be eased considerably. Besides, it would facilitate smooth traffic on NH 17. The city buses and general traffic heading towards Derebail–Kavoor can proceed without interruption.
The work on a flyover that is coming up at Kottara junction, a few kilometres away from Kuntikan, will be quickened.
Meanwhile, work on the B C Road flyover in Bantwal taluk still has not reached the final stage. The traffic bottlenecks here on the Mangalore–Bangalore NH 48 is the order of the day.
The work on other flyovers at Suratkal and Kuloor on NH 17 are on the fast track while the execution of four lane work and subsequent construction of flyover at Nantoor–Bikarnakatte was hampered owing to delays on the land acquisition process.
Here, 13 cases were filed in this regard at the local court of which 11 were settled recently. Hence, it has empowered NH authorities to go ahead with further works along this stretch of NH.
NH authorities are confident of expediting the completion of related works once the major flyovers on NH are opened for traffic, as the conversion works of four lanes is nearing completion.
NH authorities expect to complete the four lane work from B C Road to NITK, Suratkal, by December 09.
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