Traffic woes at Kallianapura Santhekatte junction

Lack of vehicular underpass or overpass causing inconvenience to residents

Kallianapura Santhekatte, an emerging suburb of Udupi town located on the flanks of National Highway 66, has been bogged down by traffic woes with hundreds of vehicles competing with each other to enter and exit the busy national highway at the traffic junction every day. The genesis of the problems goes back to the time of construction of the four-lane national highway without any underpass or overpass for vehicles either from the surrounding areas or for the ones on the highway, say residents of the area. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) recently proposed a vehicular overpass at a similarly-placed Katpady Junction between Udupi and Mangaluru on the national highway upon the insistence of Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje.