Work to lay concrete and strengthen the Parivakkam junction on the Chennai – Bengaluru Highway will be completed before Pongal. Concrete-laying work on both sides for a length of 200m began on December 22.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) took up repair work at three junctions — Vanagaram, Velappanchavadi and Parivakkam — following complaints of bad roads.
“These junctions got damaged due to watertankers using them frequently. Each time the vehicles stopped, water would spill onto the bitumen surface from the tankers, which lead to the surface getting damaged. The only way was to divert the traffic to the service lanes and lay the concrete, which was carried out,” said an NHAI official.
