Last year, immediately after creating the announcement of the 110 km-extended Mega Streets Project in Chennai, lately the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) announced that 25 km roads will be revamped across the city for ‘quick wins’. In addition to this, the styles and specifics for practically one hundred km of roads are prepared as nicely. According to an IE report, a couple of portions of the proposed 110 km extended Mega Streets Project will be revamped beneath ‘quick wins’ initially. For the very same, GCC has currently identified consultants immediately after issuing tenders. G Prakash, IAS, the Commissioner of the GCC was quoted in the report saying that due to paucity of funds, the corporation presently can’t concentrate on all 110-km of roads beneath the project. However, specific portions of the roads have been chalked out for revamp.
According to Prakash, this will also make positive that there is no assumption that beneath the road project, only T Nagar (Pedestrian Plaza) is acquiring revamped. The report mentioned, the roads which will be revamped are a sub-component of the localities that have been identified beneath Phase I of the Mega Streets Project (Velachery, Tondiarpet, Nungambakkam, Anna Nagar, Adyar and Mylapore).
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Mega Streets Project, which was earlier supposed to start out on the month of November 2020, had been place on hold. To assure a seamless commute as nicely as improve the utility of the city’s arterial and key roads, GCC launched the project on 11 February 2020. The project, which is an extension of the Smart City Mission, proposes to redevelop roads spreading across 426 sq km of Chennai, of which 600 km streets are maintained by the GCC and 286 km roads that are maintained by other departments inside the GCC limits.
The Mega Streets project’s Phase-1, will concentrate on 110 km of arterial roads in the localities of Anna Nagar, Nungambakkam, Velachery, Tondiarpet, Mylapore and Adyar. The key roads which will be revamped beneath the Phase-1 in these regions are Sardar Patel Road, Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai (R K Salai), Gandhi Mandapam Road, Cathedral Road, Lattice Bridge Road (LB Road), Royapettah High Road, Kutchery Road, Greenways Road, Cathedral Road, Thiruvottiyur High Road, Anna Nagar – 2nd, 3rd Avenues Race Course Road, New Avadi Road and Velachery Main Road.
According to GCC, the following roads of the project’s Phase I will be redeveloped beneath fast wins:
- 4.784 km extended roads in Anna Nagar: 3rd Avenue Road, Pulla Avenue and Kilpauk Garden Road
- 5 km extended roads in Tondiarpet – George Town – Thiruvottiyur: SN Chetty Road/Ennore High Road as nicely as Thiruvottiyur High Road
- 3.470 km extended roads in Nungambakkam: Cathedral Road and Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai
- 3.340 km extended roads in Mylapore: Kamaraj Salai, C P Ramasamy Salai and Eldams Road
- 5.658 km extended roads in Velachery: Race Course Road and Velachery Main Road
- 4.675 km extended roads in Adyar: Dr. Ramachandra Aditanar Road, East Canal Bank Road, West Canal Bank Road, Gandhi Nagar – 1st, Cross Street, 2nd Cross Street and 3rd Cross Street as nicely as Taluka Office Road
A total of 13.08 km of roads are proposed beneath the Mega Streets Project to be revamped in Anna Nagar, 30.48 km in Mylapore, 25.81 km in Tondiarpet – George Town – Thiruvottiyur, 9.29 km in Velachery, 20.28 km in Adyar and 12.24 km in Nungambakkam. According to Prakash, immediately after fast wins, the GCC will also take into account working on the rest of roads of the proposed 110-km roads revamp project. The corporation is nevertheless waiting for funds from the government. While the estimates spending budget for fast wins quantity to Rs 500 or 600 crore. Prakash is hopeful of getting a directive from the state government this week, relating to the funding for fast wins.