Year after opening of flyover, traffic snarls worsen at Vyttila Junction
The Hindu
PWD has not yet reduced extent of roundabout and traffic medians beneath flyover
Traffic congestion has worsened at Vyttila Junction, although a six-lane flyover was commissioned on January 9 last year, at what is the biggest junction in the State. This has led to police personnel, traffic experts and others demanding that the Public Works Department (NH wing), which built the flyover, adopt drastic measures to make optimal use of the space beneath the structure.
It is shocking that the PWD did little, even after agreeing over 10 months ago to reduce the extent of the roundabout and traffic medians it built beneath the flyover. That alone would considerably ease traffic movement in all directions, by opening up space for moving vehicles and for those awaiting the green signal, said police sources.
Giving credence to criticism that the flyover helped just about 30% of long-distance motorists, leaving the others to jostle for space beneath the structure, Upendra Narayan, an expert on road safety and road engineering, spoke of how the situation would have been better but for slack planning by the PWD and the State government. “They dream of mega projects and not tailor-made solutions to streamline traffic flow at bottlenecked corridors that abound, even on highways.”