Flyover awaiting inauguration by CM in Kochi opened by activists

Kochi witnessed a protest of a different sort on Tuesday evening as a group of activists opened for traffic a flyover that has been awaiting formal inauguration although its work was completed last month.

It was the flyover at the busy Vyttila junction on National Highway 66 that witnessed the novel protest. It was scheduled to be formally opened on January 9 by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Police arrested four persons associated with a public forum name ‘V4 Kochi’.

It was by around 7.30 pm on Tuesday that some unidentified people removed the barricades on one side of the flyover and allowed vehicles from the Alappuzha side (Southern side) to enter the flyover. Since it was peak hour, the flyover became congested with vehicles, including heavy ones, in no time.