In Chennai, traffic chaos in the northern neighbourhood is set to ease soon as the flyover in Vyasarpadi that will connect Chennai with the Kolkata highway (NH5) is nearing completion. The four-lane flyover under construction is a ‘Y’-shaped facility similar to the flyover at Rangarajapuram in T. Nagar.
The flyover takes off on Basin Bridge Road and divides into two-lanes on each side — one reaching Erukkancheri High Road and the other, Sathyamurthy Nagar Main Road near Kalyanapuram.
The ramp on the Erukkancheri High Road connects the northern part of the city with the NH5. Government officials said that almost 70 per cent of the work on the project including construction of a ramp on the Satyamurthy Nagar side has been completed by the State Highways Department, one of the executing agencies of the project.
At present, the department has started the work on the Kolkata highway side while the Southern Railway has commenced its work on the portion of the flyover that passes over railway tracks near the Vyasarpadi Jiva station. Currently, traffic is allowed on the bitumen-topped service lanes, which is around 3,000 metres long, on both sides of the flyover.
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